
Tannishtha Chatterjee
Acting
Biography
Tannishtha Chatterjee is an Indian actor. She is best known in the west for her performance in the British film Brick Lane (2007), the film adaptation of Monica Ali's best selling novel of the same name. She has been the only Indian to be nominated for the British Independent Film Awards (BAFTA) as the best actress for Brick Lane. Her other notables roles have been in Academy Award-winning German director Florian Gallenberger's film, Shadows of Time, Road, Movie with Abhay Deol and Bibar for which she won Best Actress at the 2006 Osian Film Festival and the 2007 BFJA awards.
Born: November 23, 1980
Place of Birth: Pune, Maharashtra, India
Known For

The Storyteller
After decades of working in the printing industry in Kolkata in eastern India, Tarini has reached retirement age. He spends his days at home, having declined his son’s invitation to come to the United States. Then a friend shows him a help-wanted ad. Although he has never published a book, Tarini used to tell made-up stories to his friends in his youth, and the ad for a storyteller in Ahmedabad in western India piques his interest.

Lion
A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

Gour Hari Dastaan
Gour Hari Das, a freedom fighter who works in Khadi Kraft and lives along with his wife & son, lives a content life in his neighborhood. However, one day when his son is unable to secure college admission for lack of a Freedom Fighter's Certificate, he feels the need to establish his identity. In the quest for this piece of paper to prove his authenticity to his son, his neighbors & to the world, he begins a journey that sucks up almost his entire life.

Island City
A collection of three comic-dramatic stories set in Mumbai. The first is about a diligent office worker who wins the office 'Fun Committee Award', which entitles him to a whole day full of fun. He is most reluctant to leave the safety of his cubicle but he has to. Prescribed fun modules have to be completed and non-compliance is not an option... The second story begins with a domineering head-of-the-family, Anil, who is on life support. Seeking some relief, his family decides to buy a TV, which Anil had banned. Now every night the family plugs into a popular soap whose hero, Purshottam, is a man ideal in every way and they are smitten. Then suddenly, comes the news that Anil is better and may be home soon. Will they have to let Purshottam go?... The third one centers on Aarti whose repetitive existence is slowly making her more and more mechanical and numb. Deep inside ferments a disconnect and unease that she is unable to articulate to anyone.

Joram
A father is on the run with his little baby girl to escape the ghosts of his past and the forces that want him dead.

Parched
In the arid landscape of Rajasthan, four women navigate their way through personal and cultural difficulties.

Water
Jal revolves around a young man named Bakka, who is gifted with a special ability to find water in the desert. With the backdrop of water scarcity, the film tells a complex and intriguing story of love, relationships, enmity, deceit and circumstances that bring about the dark side of human character.

The Kapil Sharma Show

Siddharth
A chain-wallah from Delhi travels across India in search of his missing son, in the hopes that whoever took him, returns him unharmed.

Bombay Summer
Bombay Summer explores the fleeting and delicate friendship between three young people in Mumbai, India. The film follows their journey of discovery, love and loss.
Filmography
as Imali Davan
as Vaano
as Ananda Ishwar
as Leena Pradhan
as Kamala
as Suzy Fibert
as Rani
as Rayman
as Romila
as Megha's lawyer (segment "Megha's Divorce")
as Ismat Chugtai
as Shoma Sekhri
as Chotu's Mom
as Rani
as Chhaaya
as Noor
as Durga
as Santoshi
as Herself
as Inspector Rajveer Saxsena
as Dhaniya
as Nargis Nasreen
as Rani
as Meera
as Self
as Aarti
as Anita
as Riya
as Leela
as Leela
as Meena Hasina
as Kajri
as Masha
as The Woman
as Geetha
as Rani
as Nazneen Ahmed
as Krishna
as Masha (Adult)
as Mona
as Draupadi