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Nandita Das is a Actor, Director and Scriptwriter Indian born on 7 november 1969 at New Delhi (Inde)
Nandita Das (born 7 November 1969) is an Indian film actress and director. She has acted in over 30 feature films in ten different languages. As an actress, she is known for her performances in Fire (1996), Earth (1998), Bawandar (2000), Kannathil Muthamittal (2002), Azhagi and Before The Rains (2007). Firaaq, her directorial debut feature film, premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2008, and has traveled to over 50 festivals, winning over 20 awards. She has been on the jury of Cannes Film Festival twice—2005 and 2013—among others. She has been awarded the Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Government of France for her contribution towards arts. Nandita Das was the first Indian to be inducted into the International Women's Forum's hall of fame for her contributions to the arts.
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Nandita Das
Nationality Inde
Birth 7 november 1969 (54 years) at New Delhi (Inde)
Awards Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, Nandi Awards
Birth 7 november 1969 (54 years) at New Delhi (Inde)
Awards Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, Nandi Awards
Nandita Das (born 7 November 1969) is an Indian film actress and director. She has acted in over 30 feature films in ten different languages. As an actress, she is known for her performances in Fire (1996), Earth (1998), Bawandar (2000), Kannathil Muthamittal (2002), Azhagi and Before The Rains (2007). Firaaq, her directorial debut feature film, premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2008, and has traveled to over 50 festivals, winning over 20 awards. She has been on the jury of Cannes Film Festival twice—2005 and 2013—among others. She has been awarded the Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Government of France for her contribution towards arts. Nandita Das was the first Indian to be inducted into the International Women's Forum's hall of fame for her contributions to the arts.
Biography
In 2002, Das married Saumya Sen. The couple began Leapfrog, an advertising organisation geared towards making socially conscious ad films. The couple divorced in 2009. After dating Subodh Maskara, an industrialist based out of Mumbai for a couple of months, she married him on 2 January 2010 and moved to Mumbai. Das and Maskara had a baby boy named Vihaan. Das has remained an atheist throughout her life.Usually with
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Traces of Sandalwood (2014)
, 1h35Genres Drama
Actors Nandita Das, Aina Clotet, Marina Gatell
Roles Mina
Rating65%
The film begins in high drama as 6-year-old Mina (Vaibhavi Hankare) saves her newborn sister, Sita, from being drowned as an unwanted female, thereupon taking full responsibility for her care. But when their mother dies a few years later, their father hands them over to a woman from the city. Sita is left with nuns, despite her sister’s frantic resistance, and young Mina is consigned to a brothel, from which she narrowly escapes. She finds work as a maid for a rich family, gaining an ally in Sanjay, the handsome son of the house.
Oonga (2013)
, 1h38Genres Drama
Actors Nandita Das, Seema Biswas, Salim Kumar, Alyy Khan, Vipin Sharma, Anand Tiwari
Roles Hemla
Rating68%
Little adivasi Oonga misses his village school trip to see the ‘Ramayana’. Upset about being the only kid in his tribal village Pottacheru who has not yet seen the mythical warrior-king ‘Rama’, Oonga runs away, embarking on a long adventurous journey to the big city of Lohabad.
Neerparavai (2012)
, 2h17Directed by Seenu Ramasamy
Genres Drama
Actors Vishnu Vishal, Sunaina, Nandita Das, Saranya, Anupama Kumar, Samuthirakani
Roles Esther
Rating71%
The film is introduced when an old lady's (Nandita Das) son and daughter in law comes to stay on her house where she is solitary. Every often her son and her daughter in law notice that she goes to the beach prays in the garden every night. When they ask her why she is going to the beach she says that she is waiting for her husband to come. The son gets angry and says that you have been waiting for 25 years, he is not going to come. Whilst the mum goes to the beach the couple dig where she is praying and find a skeleton. They report to the police and the case is handled by Inspector Agnes (Varsha Ashwathi) who begins interrogating the old lady. The old lady tells her past.
I Am (2011)
, 1h35Directed by Onir
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Documentary, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about children, Pregnancy films, Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Films about pedophilia, Musical films, Bollywood, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Juhi Chawla, Manisha Koirala, Nandita Das, Rahul Bose, Sanjay Suri, Manav Kaul
Roles Afia Kidwai
Rating67%
"Afia" - A single woman (Nandita Das) decides to become a mother using a sperm donor.
Ramchand Pakistani (2008)
, 1h43Directed by Mehreen Jabbar
Origin Pakistan
Genres Drama
Actors Nandita Das, Maria Wasti, Noman Ijaz, Shahood Alvi, Zhalay Sarhadi
Roles Champa
Rating74%
Champa (Nandita Das) is a Hindu woman who is left desolate when her young son and husband disappear one day from their village at the Pakistan-India border near Nagarparkar, in Tharparkar. The film depicts the crossing of the Pakistan-India border, during a period (June 2002) of war-like tension between the two countries, by two members of a Pakistani Hindu family belonging to the 'untouchable' dalit caste, and the extraordinary consequences of this unintended action upon the lives of a woman, a man, and their son.
Provoked: A True Story (2007)
, 2h13Directed by Jag Mundhra
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about families, Feminist films, Films about immigration, La précarité, Films about domestic violence
Actors Aishwarya Rai, Robbie Coltrane, Miranda Richardson, Naveen Andrews, Nandita Das, Ray Panthaki
Roles Radha Dalal
Rating63%
Kiranjit Ahluwalia (Aishwarya Rai), a Punjabi woman, marries Deepak Ahluwalia (Naveen Andrews) in an arranged marriage and moves to Southall, UK with him to be closer to his family. Initially he seems caring and affectionate towards her but soon enough the true colors of her husband begin to show as Deepak gradually reveals a darker, threatening, and even sociopathic side of himself. After enduring ten years of abuse and having two children with him, Kiranjit, unable to bear the brutality and repeated rapes at the hands of her husband any longer, sets fire to his feet while he is sleeping, unintentionally killing him. Charged with murder, her case comes to the notice of a group of South Asian social workers running an under funded organization called the Southall Black Sisters.
Before the Rains (2007)
, 1h36Directed by Santosh Sivan
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Linus Roache, Rahul Bose, Nandita Das, Jennifer Ehle, Lal, Paul Michael
Roles Sajaani
Rating64%
Before the Rains is set in 1930s Malabar District of the Madras Presidency of British India, against the backdrop of a growing nationalist movement. An idealistic young Indian man, T.K. (Rahul Bose) finds himself torn between his ambitions for the future and his loyalty to tradition when people in his village learn of an affair between his British boss and close friend Henry Moores (Linus Roache) and a married village woman Sajani (Nandita Das).
Four Women (2007)
, 1h45Directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Genres Drama
Actors Padmapriya, Nandita Das, Kavya Madhavan, Geetu Mohandas, Murali, Manju Pillai
Roles The Spinster
Rating64%
Naalu Pennungal is the story of four women from Kuttanad in Alappuzha district in Kerala. The stories are set in the years between the 1940s to the 1960s.
Kamli (2006)
Directed by K. N. T. Sastry
Genres Drama
Actors Nandita Das, Tanikella Bharani, Shafi, L.B. Sri Ram
Footsteps (2006)
, 1h33Directed by Suman Ghosh
Actors Soumitra Chatterjee, Nandita Das, Sabitri Chatterjee, Tota Roy Choudhury, June Malia
Roles Megha
Rating73%
At the end, the only love which lasts is the love that has accepted everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire as deep as the simple desire for companionship."
Fleeting Beauty (2004)
, 10minutesThemes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Nandita Das, Will Wallace
Roles Seema (Indian woman)
Rating64%
The story is about an Indian immigrant woman who explores the history of Indian Subcontinent through spice routes on her white lover’s back. She narrates him the story supported by lots of facts and figures with a blend of colonial history and spices. In due course of time she ends up with a delicate portrait on her lover’s back before it gets brushed-off in a few minutes.
Vishwa Thulasi (2004)
, 2hGenres Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Mammootty, Nandita Das, S. Manivannan, Manoj K. Jayan, Sukumari, Madhan Bob
Rating60%
The film, set in the 1940s and moving to the 1960s, revolves around the emotional story of Thulasi (Nandita Das) returning to her village to become a dance teacher. She cannot bring herself to forget Vishwa (Mammootty), a man she has been in love with for two decades. Memories of Vishwa haunt her constantly, and upon a chance meeting with him, she discovers he too is struggling with his love for her. Both are haunted by the memory of Thulasi's cousin, a figure who is unable to control his obsession for his cousin and hide his resentment at Thulasi's feelings for Vishwa.
Ek Alag Mausam (2003)
, 2hGenres Drama
Actors Nandita Das, Anupam Kher, Renuka Shahane, Arundhati Nag, Sally Dynevor, Rajit Kapur
Roles Aparna Suresh Verma
Rating70%
Subho Mahurat (2003)
, 2h30Directed by Rituparno Gosh
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Sharmila Tagore, Rakhee Gulzar, Nandita Das, Tota Roy Choudhury, Rajesh Sharma, Moumita Gupta
Roles Mallika Sen
Rating76%
The phrase "shubho mahurat" is associated with the beginning of shooting for a feature film. The first day of shooting is usually marked by a grand reception, followed by a token shooting or vice versa. This Miss Marple-esque film begins with this event. An NRI producer, Padmini Chowdhury (Sharmila Tagore), has come to India to invest in a film. Her second husband Sambit Roy (Sumanta Mukherjee), an out-of-work director, is assigned the job of direction.
Supari (2003)
, 2h32Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Uday Chopra, Rahul Dev, Nandita Das, Purab Kohli, Nauheed Cyrusi, Irrfan Khan
Roles Mamta Shekari
Rating44%
Aryan Pandit lives a middle-class lifestyle with his family in Nasik, India, where the entire family depend on his salesman father's earnings. He relocates to Mumbai's St. Andrews College with big dreams of being wealthy and driving a red Ferrari. He befriends three other middle-class youth: Papad, Mushy, and Chicken. He borrows money from Matka Rajan, gambles it, loses everything, and is unable to re-pay. As a result, Rajan sets his goons on him.