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Churni Ganguly

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Birth name Churni Banerjee
Nationality Inde
Birth at Kurseong (Inde)

Churni Ganguly (Bengali: চূর্ণী গাঙ্গুলী or Churni Gangopadhyay, born as Churni Banerjee or Churni Bandopadhyay is a Bengali film and Television actress.

After spending her childhood in Kurseong she came to Kolkata and got admitted at the Jadavpur University. While studying at Jadavpur University, she joined a theatre group as an actress. Then she moved to Mumbai and acted in a few television serials. Later she came back to Kolkata and started acting in Bengali films.

Ganguly received Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards in 2005 in best actress category for the movie Waarish in which she played a single-mother's role.

Biography

Churni Ganguly (born Churni Banerjee) spent her childhood in Kurseong. Her parents were school teachers. She was a student of Dow Hills boarding school. In spite of being a boarding school, Churni and few other girls were allowed to stay at their homes with their parents. Churni's father, whom Churni described as "extremely caring but a rather serious person" encouraged Churni to do well in sports and studies, especially sport. But, Churni did not feel urge to concentrate on sports. Churni was a good student at school but she never thought that she had to secure rankings in examinations.

Churni was a student of Jadavpur University. While at university, in 1987, she started a theatre troupe with Suman Mukhopadhyay and her future husband Kaushik Ganguly. Churni is married to Bengali film director Kaushik Ganguly and has a son – Ujaan Ganguly.

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Filmography of Churni Ganguly (11 films)

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Actress

Sound
Sound (2013)
, 1h40
Directed by Kaushik Ganguly
Genres Drama
Actors Raima Sen, Ritwick Chakraborty, Churni Ganguly, Victor Banerjee, Srijit Mukherji, Kaushik Ganguly
Roles Psychiatrist.
Rating80% 4.0359754.0359754.0359754.0359754.035975
The protagonist of the film is Tarak Dutta (Ritwik Chakraborty), a foley artist. He is so obsessed with his work that he loses his grip on words and his mind starts registering only foley sounds.
The Rest Is Personal...
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Aparajita Ghosh Das, Ritwick Chakraborty, Madhabi Mukherjee, Churni Ganguly, Monu Mukhopadhyay, Sudipa Basu
Rating78% 3.9328953.9328953.9328953.9328953.932895
The film has been made in a documentary style. This film is about a man's search for a partner. Pramit, an independent filmmaker who is yet to experience the spell of love in his otherwise not-so exciting life, starts shooting a documentary film on love.
Arjun – Kalimpong E Sitaharan
Themes Children's films
Actors Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, Deepankar De, Churni Ganguly, Biswajit Chakraborty, Manoj Mitra
Roles Neelam
Rating57% 2.8995352.8995352.8995352.8995352.899535
Arjun is a sleuth cum science fiction character of Jalpaiguri created by famous Bengali writer Samaresh Majumdar for young children. He wrote many stories in the Arjun series, namely Arjun Ebaar Kolkata-e, Arjun Beriye Elo, [email protected] and many more. This film is the first of the Arjun series based on Sitaharan Rahasya and Khunkharapi. In the film, Arjun (Om) is seen solving a case with the help of his mentor and guide, Amol Shome (Sabyasachi Chakraborty) in Kalimpong. He is portrayed as a Gen X sleuth who doesn't own a mobile phone but can be seen riding a bike.
Rang Milanti
Directed by Kaushik Ganguly
Genres Comedy
Actors Churni Ganguly, Saswata Chatterjee, Gaurav Chakrabarty, Gourab Chatterjee, Ridhima Ghosh, Indrasish Roy
Roles Kamalika's elder sister.
Rating67% 3.3728353.3728353.3728353.3728353.372835
There are four boys and one girl. All are very good friends, but the girl wants to choose any one of them as a special friend who can become her life partner later. Her elder sister had a fight with her husband and left him. The girl went to her husband and asked for help. He refers her to a doctor who can help her. Dr.Anughatak. The doctor is no one but himself only in disguise. He helps by asking her to test 4 of his friends in 10 various situations how they react. Based on that she has to play a game of cards where she has to mark them. The person who gets maximum points in all 10 rounds will be the winner and she can marry that person. She agrees and shares the same with her sister. She starts playing the game but discovers at the end that if she plays an additional extra round the results are changing. She gets angry with the doctor and marries the person whom she loves most and realizes that we can not get every good virtue in same person. People differs, whatever good things we get inside our beloved people, we have to be happy with it. Her sister also realizes the same and comes back to her husband.
Just Another Love Story, 2h8
Directed by Kaushik Ganguly, Rituparno Gosh
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Rituparno Gosh, Jisshu Sengupta, Indraneil Sengupta, Raima Sen, Churni Ganguly, Arindam Sil
Roles Rani / Gopa
Rating68% 3.4224653.4224653.4224653.4224653.422465
The film is about Abhiroop Sen (Rituparno Ghosh), a Delhi-based transgender documentary filmmaker, whose bisexual lover is the cinematographer (Indraneil Sengupta) of the film. They visit Kolkata to make a documentary on the life of the real-life legendary jatra actor Chapal Bhaduri, who in his heyday was known as 'Chapal Rani', noted for his portrayal of female roles on the stage at a time when women did not perform on stage.
Chalo Let's Go, 2h22
Directed by Anjan Dutt
Genres Drama
Actors Rudranil Ghosh, Saswata Chatterjee, Parambrata Chatterjee, Ritwick Chakraborty, Arindam Sil, Churni Ganguly
Rating73% 3.6709753.6709753.6709753.6709753.670975
This is a story about four friends, Hari, Shekhar, Ashim, and Sanjay. They studied at the same school. Ashim studied to be a doctor, but decided to never pursue that profession. Sanjay worked for an ad agency but left the job. The rest have never held a job. They started a Bengali band, but they were beaten up by the public at a stage show in North Bengal. They vowed to never perform again. At this point, they start a travelling agency, called 'Gharoa Travels'. On their first trip, they start the journey with only 9 passengers. On the way to the hills, a girl named Ria joins them. The film deals with their journey through North Bengal. The ten tourist and the four operators form an assorted medley of characters. As the journey progresses, their natures are slowly revealed. The film has a style of flash-forwarding to the future juxtaposed with the present, giving the audience a sense of the fates of the characters even as the story progresses.
Shunyo é Bukey - Empty Canvas
Directed by Kaushik Ganguly
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Kaushik Sen, Churni Ganguly, Kharaj Mukherjee, Tota Roy Choudhury, Rupali Ganguly, Biswajit Chakraborty
Rating71% 3.5704653.5704653.5704653.5704653.570465
Saumitra (Kaushik Sen), a brilliant artist (Painter and sculptor), visits Khajuraho to draw inspiration and meets Churni (Churni Ganguly) there through a common friend (Tota) who is an artiste too. Love blossoms between them in Kolkata and though their family and economic standards are poles apart, they decide to marry. Churni breaks away from her rich, blue blood family. On the marriage night Kaushik, to his shock, discovers that Churni is flat-chested. The shock develops into sense of being cheated, anger and finally hatred. Churni first tries to reason and pleads helplessness but after suffering Saumitra beyond a point she seeks divorce. The movie ends with a twist on a day years after their split. But you are better advised to watch it.
Waarish
Waarish (2004)

Directed by Kaushik Ganguly
Actors Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, Debashree Roy, Churni Ganguly, Mamata Shankar
Roles Medha

The film revolves around the characters Shubhankar (played by Sabyasachi Chakrabarty), Vidhi (Debashree Roy) and Medha (Churni Ganguly). Medha is an ex-flame of Subhankar. Medha becomes pregnant after rendezvous with Subhankar. Though Medha was not married with Subhankar, she denies abortion and gives birth to a son, Megh.