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Seema Biswas is a Actor Indian born on 14 january 1965 at Nalbari (Inde)

Seema Biswas

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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

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).

Biography

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.

Best films

Water (2005)
(Actress)

Usually with

Deepa Mehta
Deepa Mehta
(4 films)
Anupam Kher
Anupam Kher
(6 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Seema Biswas (50 films)

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Actress

Mother Of 1084, 2h32
Directed by Govind Nihalani
Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Actors Jaya Bachchan, Anupam Kher, Nandita Das, Joy Sengupta, Seema Biswas, Milind Gunaji
Roles Somu's Mother
Rating74% 3.7183.7183.7183.7183.718
Dibyanath Chatterji, his bank-employed wife, Sujata, and youngest son, Brati, live an affluent existence in Calcutta, West Bengal, India, circa early 1970s. Sujata is a quiet, devout Hindu, religious, and compassionate woman, and Brati has finished his school and is now attending college. His parents are proud of him, and keep track of his progress. Then their world is shattered during the early hours, when they are informed by the police that Brati has been killed. Dibyanath and Sujata go to identify Brati's body, mourn, lament inconsolably. They know now that their lives will never be the same again - for by the police they will be called the mother and father of corpse No. 1084. Sujata struggles to understand Brati's passing, meets his friends one by one, comes to know that Brati had a girlfriend, Nandini Mitra, and that's when she finds out that Brati was part of a rebel group often referred to as "Naxalbari", a militant leftist group. As she delves deeper and deeper into Brati's former life, she begins to understand her son's struggle, and decides to continue to further this. What Sujata does not know is her and Dibyanath's lives are in danger, and they well turn up dead and end up as numbered corpses in a police morgue.
Ladies Only
Genres Comedy
Actors Randhir Kapoor, Seema Biswas, Shilpa Shirodkar, Heera, Kamal Haasan
Rating22% 1.123391.123391.123391.123391.12339
Ladies Only is the story of three women, Seema Biswas, Shilpa Shirodkar and Heera Rajagopal working in the same office. They are constantly harassed by their lecherous boss Randhir Kapoor. The three decide to gang up against him to teach a lesson, but a strange accident complicates things when the boss lands in a hospital and the three women end up with the dead body of a terrorist.
Khamoshi: The Musical, 2h39
Directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Nana Patekar, Manisha Koirala, Salman Khan, Seema Biswas, Helen Khan, Raghubir Yadav
Roles Flavy
Rating74% 3.7464453.7464453.7464453.7464453.746445
The story is about Joseph (Nana Patekar) and Flavy Braganza (Seema Biswas), a deaf and mute couple in Goa. They have a baby girl, Annie (played by Priya Parulekar as young Annie), who is able to speak and hear. A few years later they have another baby, a boy named Sam, who also speaks and hears. Annie's life is divided into two worlds — one with her parents and the other of music, which she loves. Annie gets her musical inspirations from her grandmother, Maria Braganza (Helen).
Bandit Queen, 1h59
Directed by Shekhar Kapur
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Erotic, Biography, Action, Historical, Crime, Western
Themes Feminist films, Films about music and musicians, Politique, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Erotic films, Musical films, Rape and revenge films, Political films, Bollywood, Auto-justice
Actors Seema Biswas, Nirmal Pandey, Aditya Srivastava, Hemant Pandey, Dolly Ahluwalia, Saurabh Shukla
Roles - Phoolan Devi
Rating74% 3.74433.74433.74433.74433.7443
Bhind, 1968 Phoolan is married to a twenty-something fellow called Puttilal (Aditya Shrivastava). Though child marriages are customary during that time, Phoolan's mother Moola (Savitri Raekwar) objects to the timing of the match. Phoolan's aging father Devideen (Ram Charan Nirmalker) conforming to his culture, regrettably disagrees, and Phoolan is sent off with Puttilal.
Kora Kagaz
Kora Kagaz (1974)

Genres Drama
Actors Vijay Anand, Jaya Bachchan, Seema Biswas, Ramesh Sippy, A. K. Hangal, Achala Sachdev
Rating72% 3.6229753.6229753.6229753.6229753.622975
Professor Sukesh Dutt (Vijay Anand) and Archana Gupta (Jaya Bhaduri) meet each other in a chance encounter while traveling by BEST bus service in Mumbai. Their meeting again results in formal introduction to each other. Both get attracted to each other and get married. Archana's mother does not like Sukesh due to his modest income. She makes up stories about their affluence, which offends Sukesh. This results in acrimony between Archana and Sukesh, and they decide to separate. Archana goes to live with her parents, while Sukesh relocates. Archana's family asks her to forget Sukesh, and remarry, which Archana finds difficult since she still has feelings for Sukesh.