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Seema Biswas is a Actor Indian born on 14 january 1965 at Nalbari (Inde)
Seema Biswas (born 14 January 1965) is an Indian film and theatre actress from Assam who shot into prominence with the role of Phoolan Devi in Shekhar Kapur's film Bandit Queen (1994). She has a reputation for performing strong character roles.
Biswas won the 1996 National Film Award for Best Actress for her role in the film Bandit Queen. She won the 2000 Sangeet Natak Akademi Award and the 2006 Best Actress Genie Award for her role as Shakuntala in Deepa Mehta's Water (2005).
Elle a remporté le 13 mars 2006 le prix Génie de la meilleure actrice pour son rôle dans le film Water de la réalisatrice Deepa Mehta.
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Birth name Seema Biswas
Nationality Inde
Birth 14 january 1965 (59 years) at Nalbari (Inde)
Awards Genie Awards, Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role, Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, Filmfare Awards
Nationality Inde
Birth 14 january 1965 (59 years) at Nalbari (Inde)
Awards Genie Awards, Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role, Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, Filmfare Awards
Seema Biswas (born 14 January 1965) is an Indian film and theatre actress from Assam who shot into prominence with the role of Phoolan Devi in Shekhar Kapur's film Bandit Queen (1994). She has a reputation for performing strong character roles.
Biswas won the 1996 National Film Award for Best Actress for her role in the film Bandit Queen. She won the 2000 Sangeet Natak Akademi Award and the 2006 Best Actress Genie Award for her role as Shakuntala in Deepa Mehta's Water (2005).
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Seema Biswas est née à Nalbari, dans l'Assam, de Jagdish Biswas et Meera Biswas. Elle s'est fait connaître avec le rôle de Phoolan Devi dans La Reine des bandits (Bandit Queen), le film de Shekhar Kapur sorti en 1994, pour lequel elle a remporté le National Film Award de la meilleure actrice. Elle a la réputation de jouer des rôles à fort caractère. Elle a remporté le prix Sangeet Natak Akademi en 2000, et le prix Génie de la meilleure actrice pour son rôle dans le film Water de la réalisatrice Deepa Mehta. Ses autres films grand public comprennent notamment Khamoshi : The Musical sorti en 1996, pour lequel elle a remporté le Screen Award de la meilleure actrice de soutien, Bhoot sorti en 2003, ou Vivah sorti en 2006). En plus des films, Biswas a participé à des émissions de télévision, et à des pièces de théâtre, interprétant notamment le personnage historique de Binodini Dasi, dans la pièce de même nom, en 1995.Elle a remporté le 13 mars 2006 le prix Génie de la meilleure actrice pour son rôle dans le film Water de la réalisatrice Deepa Mehta.
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Red Alert: The War Within (2010)
, 2hDirected by Anant Mahadevan
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action
Themes Political films
Actors Suniel Shetty, Vinod Khanna, Naseeruddin Shah, Sameera Reddy, Ayesha Dharker, Seema Biswas
Rating64%
Striker (2010)
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Siddharth, Padmapriya, Usha Jadhav, Aditya Pancholi, Anupam Kher, Seema Biswas
Roles Surya's Mother
Rating68%
Born into a poor family, Surya grows up with few luxuries. Poor health keeps him away from school often and that is when his elder brother, Chandrakant, introduces him to carrom. Winning the Junior Carrom Championship at 12 is not enough to keep Surya's fire for the sport burning through adolescence. Hopes for a job in Dubai replace the passion for carrom as Surya grows into a young man. Duped by a bogus overseas employment agency, Surya loses all his hard earned money he had saved for going to Dubai. Surya is forced to cross paths with Jaleel.
Yeh Mera India (2009)
, 2h14Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion
Actors Anupam Kher, Rajit Kapur, Atul Kulkarni, Perizaad Zorabian, Milind Gunaji, Purab Kohli
Rating76%
Yeh Mera India focuses on the comprehensive lifestyle of Mumbai, with a special focus on the biases that permeate the corner of its society. Whether it is communal bias, social bias, economic bias, religious bias or educational bias, the "bias" factor dominates the entire depiction of the film, merging different characters into one story.
Zor Lagaa Ke... Haiya! (2009)
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Mithun Chakraborty, Mahesh Manjrekar, Seema Biswas, Gulshan Grover, Sachin Khedekar, Riya Sen
Rating62%
A group of children with the help of a beggar try to save some trees from a construction company's intent on cutting them down to make way for new buildings.
Aasma: The Sky Is the Limit (2009)
Genres Drama
Actors Joy Sengupta, Seema Biswas, Sachin Khedekar, Nauheed Cyrusi, Hrishitaa Bhatt, Raghubir Yadav
Rating43%
It is a story about a theatre group composed of talented and aspiring college and actors set out to have some fun. Somewhere along their journey, they realize that they want more. They want to touch the sky with their brilliance.
Heaven on Earth (2008)
, 1h46Directed by Deepa Mehta
Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families, Films about domestic violence
Actors Preity Zinta, Seema Biswas, Yanna McIntosh
Rating62%
Vibrant Chand (Preity Zinta) is a young bride leaving her home in Ludhiana, Punjab, India, for Brampton, Ontario, Canada, where her husband Rocky (Vansh Bhardwaj) and his very traditional family await her arrival. Everything is new and unfamiliar to Chand including the quiet and shy Rocky who she meets for the first time at the Arrivals level of Pearson Airport. Chand approaches her new life and land with equanimity and grace, and at times the wide-eyed optimism of hope—her first snowfall is a tiny miracle of beauty, and the roar of Niagara Falls creates the excitement of new beginnings.
Shaurya (2008)
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Rahul Bose, Kay Kay Menon, Minissha Lamba, Javed Jaffrey, Deepak Dobriyal, Seema Biswas
Roles Mrs.Khan
Rating72%
Maj. Siddhant Chaudhary (Rahul Bose) and Maj. Akash Kapoor (Javed Jaffrey) are lawyers in the Indian army and are close friends. They are on opposite sides of a case where a soldier kills his commanding officer. The accused is mysteriously silent and not willing to talk about the incident. Siddhant, who is the defense counsel, is apathetic at first but starts taking a keen interest in the case after meeting Kavya (Minissha Lamba), a journalist who demonstrates that the case is not as simple as it seems. The underlying theme in the movie is Siddhant's gradual understanding of what Shaurya means (his father was himself a decorated army veteran), and the resulting conflict with Brigadier Rudra Pratap Singh (Kay Kay Menon) In the End, It is revealed that Maj. Rathod, while conducting a Search operation in a village, roughed up and killed a villager, and threatened a little girl. Enraged and fearing for the girl Capt. Javed shot him and eventually the movie ends up with a climax.
Amal (2007)
, 1h41Directed by Richie Mehta
Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Actors Rupinder Nagra, Naseeruddin Shah, Seema Biswas, Koel Purie, Vik Sahay, Roshan Seth
Roles Sapna Agarwal
Rating74%
Amal Kumar (Rupinder Nagra) is an honest, hardworking sweet-natured autorickshaw driver. who charges the metre rate and is never late to pick up his regular fares: store merchant Pooja (Koel Purie) and a schoolboy, son of exacting lawyer Sapna Agarwal (Seema Biswas).
Risk (2007)
Genres Action, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Randeep Hooda, Vinod Khanna, Tanushree Dutta, Zakir Hussain, Anant Jog, Seema Biswas
Roles Devki Wardhan: associate of Khalid's. She is heavily involved in politics.
Rating65%
For years, Khalid Bin Zamal has ruled the Mumbai crime underworld by staying in Bangkok, Thailand. Despite his distance from Mumbai, Khalid is able to control his Mumbai empire through keeping his the ruling members of his network very close to him. He is also ruthless and shows no hesitation to his enemies.
Katputtli (2006)
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Mink Brar, Milind Soman, Seema Biswas, Sudesh Berry, Sameer Dharmadhikari, Ruby Bhatia
Rating58%
Lisa (Mink Brar) can't remember who she is. She is aware of only two things - her dress is full of blood and she's got a coat full of cash. Her husband Arjun (Milind Soman) is a famous surgeon who does his best to help her remember. So begins a love story in which Arjun tries to make his wife fall in love with him all over again. All going well until Lisa gets a strange feeling about what went wrong that night. She starts getting flashes of blood and money. Arjun can't seem to help her and neither can their friendly neighbor Anju(Yukta Mookhey), who is always around to help Lisa get better. The mystery unfolds when Anju's husband Dev (Sameer Dharmadhikari), a naval officer and Lisa's college friend, returns. Dev doesn't want to wait till her memory returns and he won't rest until he can figure out how Lisa's life became so twisted. Lisa must decide if she wants to discover the truth or be content with the life Arjun has created for her.
Vivah (2006)
, 2h40Directed by Sooraj R. Barjatya
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Shahid Kapoor, Amrita Rao, Anupam Kher, Alok Nath, Seema Biswas, Samir Soni
Roles Rama a.k.a. Aunt
Rating65%
Poonam (Amrita Rao) is a middle class girl who lives in the small town of Madhupur. After the death of her parents, when she was very young, her uncle Krishnakant (Alok Nath) fulfilled the void of a father in her life. However, her aunt (Seema Biswas) is unable to accept Poonam as her own child, driven by the fact that her own daughter Rajni (Amrita Prakash) is dark in complexion and less beautiful than Poonam. Harishchandra (Anupam Kher), a renowned businessman, from New Delhi has two sons, Sunil (Samir Soni) who has married Bhavna (Lata Sabharwal) and Prem (Shahid Kapoor), who is a soft-spoken and well-educated person.
Zindaggi Rocks (2006)
Directed by Tanuja Chandra
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Sushmita Sen, Shiney Ahuja, Seema Biswas, Kim Sharma, Moushumi Chatterjee
Rating48%
Thalaimagan (2006)
Directed by R. Sarathkumar
Actors R. Sarathkumar, Nayantara, Seema Biswas, Vadivelu, Mukesh Tiwari, Vijayakumar
Roles Alankaram
Rating13%
The story is set around the bulwark of honest and public good institution of everest. A journalistic anachronism at a time when media houses have become mouthpieces for corporate houses. It is helmed by the fearless Ayya (Vijayakumar), it has among its ranks an intrepid scribe Dheeran (Sarath Kumar). He is no journeyman journalist. He is writer as well as a doer. When the power of the pen looks like slackening, he uses the hands that push the pen, so to say. And then there is harried colleague Erimalai (Vadivelu), who is just a step away from trouble. Meghala (Nayanthara) is an enterprising intern who drives Dheeran distraction.
Water (2005)
, 1h57Directed by Deepa Mehta
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Feminist films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Seema Biswas, Lisa Ray, John Abraham, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Waheeda Rehman, Vinay Pathak
Roles Gyanvati
Rating76%
The film is set in the year 1938, when India was still under British occupation. Child marriage was common practice back then. Widows had a diminished position in society, and were expected to spend their lives in poverty and worship of God. Widow remarriages were legalised by the colonial laws, but in practice, they were largely considered taboo.
Mumbai Godfather (2005)
Directed by Deepak Balraj Vij
Actors Seema Biswas, Vikram Singh, Manoj Joshi, Rinku Ghosh, Govind Namdev, Himani Shivpuri
Rating46%
The protagonist of the film is Romeo (Vikram Singh), who is in love with Shalu (Rinku Ghosh), an exotic dancer. He visits the pub where she works which gets raided by the police. He is arrested for possession of a firearm. The gun was handed to him seconds before the raid began by the character Manoj Masti Bhai (manoj Joshi).