Victor Banerjee
Acting
Biography
Victor Banerjee (born Partho Sarathi Banerjee, 15 October 1946) is an Indian actor who appears in English, Hindi, Bengali and Assamese language films. He has worked for directors including Roman Polanski, James Ivory, Sir David Lean, Jerry London, Ronald Neame, Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Shyam Benegal, Montazur Rahman Akbar and Ram Gopal Varma.
Born: October 16, 1946
Place of Birth: Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Known For
Doosri Dulhan
Renu and her husband, Anil, are devastated when she cannot bear children after a miscarriage. But soon, he visits a brothel and asks young Chanda to carry and give birth to a baby for his family.
Chaurahen
It is an evocative and poignant composition consisting of three separate stories set in Mumbai, Kolkata and Kochi. Every story revolves around love, life and loss.
The Answer
In the quest for finding a deeper meaning to life, this is a true story of an American seeker who forsakes the worldly life to enter upon an amazing spiritual journey of self realisation.
The Home and the World
When the movie opens, a woman is recalling the events that molded her perspective on the world. Years ago, her husband, a wealthy Western-educated landowner, challenged tradition by providing her with schooling, and inviting her out of the seclusion in which married women were kept, to the consternation of more conservative relatives. Meeting her husband's visiting friend from college, a leader of an economic rebellion against the British, she takes up his political cause, despite her husbands warnings. As the story progresses, the relationship between the woman and the visitor becomes more than platonic, and the political battles, pitting rich against poor and Hindu against Moslem, turn out not to be quite as simple as she had first thought.
Bitter Moon
A passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic's wife.
E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey
A film about the life of A Passage to India author E M Forster, following his huge growth as a writer and the twists and turns of his personal life.
The Bong Connection
The film is based on the lives of Bengali's across the world, especially on those settled abroad. It attempts to delineate the pain and dilemma of Bengali's estranged from their places of origin. It seeks to explore sensitive souls singing to the tunes of Tagore.
The Chess Players
In the year 1856, Nawab Wajid Ali Shah is the King of Awadh, one of the last independent kingdoms of India. The British intend to control this rich land and send General Outram to clear way for an annexation. Pressure is mounting amidst intrigue and political maneuvers, but the Nawab whiles away his time in pursuit of pleasure and religious practice. The court is of no help either — noblemen Mir and Mirza ignore all duties and spend their days playing endless games of chess.
Sound
The film revolves around the life of Tarak, a foley artist of Bengali film. Tarak's job is to create ambient sounds for films, but, he gradually gets trapped in his own world, a world full of sound.
A Passage to India
Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.
Filmography
as Animesh Chatterjee
as President Animesh Chatterjee
as Rabindranath Tagore
as Mr. Ashwa
as Father O'Hara
as Self (archive footage)
as Indian Professor
as Paramhansa Yogananda
as Dr. David Roy
as Fareed Rahmani
as Baba
as Dhon
as SP of Calcutta
as Professor Dr. Sen
as Swapna's father
as grandfather of Sudakshina
as Dhanbir
as Ram Kabiraj
as Khwaja Saheb
as Grandfather
as Grandfather
as Mike Rajan
as Dr Bose
as Shubho Shekhar Rai Banerjee
as Gary
as Azad
as Dadaji
as Navin Kapoor
as Peter the Cheater
as Pratap Narayan Chowdhury
as Justice J.P. Chatterjee
as Dr. Rajan
as Atimdranath
as Mr. Singh
as Elder Son
as Samrat
as Karpal Singh
as Ram Das
as Nikhilesh Choudhury
as Self
as Dr. Aziz H. Ahmed
as Anil
as Jotdar Bibhutibhushan Ganguly
as The Lover
as Dhan Raj
as Kunal Dutta
as Prime Minister