Nandita Das

Nandita has worked in over 40 features films that included top directors as Mrinal Sen, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Shyam Benegal, Deepa Mehta, Mani Ratnam to name a few.  Her acting career or her roles in the films started first with the theatre group Jana Natya Manch. .

She is remembered for her roles in Deepa Mehta’s film Fire released in 1996, followed by Earth in 1998 along with Aamir Khan . She has acted in many films and has been an actress for ten different languages, namely English, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Urdu, Marathi, Kannada and Odia.

Das has co-directed a play called Between the Lines in 2014 and was also a part of the 2017 film Khamosh ! Adalat Jaari Hai by Vijay Tendulkar.

She has been in the films since 1989 and her most recent film that is upcoming is Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Aata Hai 2 which is all set for its release on Friday the 12th April 2019.

Nandita Das got popular with her film on Manto in 2018. Her directorial for this film was with the actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui and the film did very well and was also premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and at Toronto International Film Festival.

She has not only acted in several films but also has directed many. One of them is her directorial debut Firaaq , a fiction based on true stories based on the 2002 Gujarat riots.

 

Her other films are Bawandar in 2000, Kannathil Muthamittal in 2002, Azhagi in same year, Kamli in 2006 and Before the Rains in 2006 to name a few.  She has been in cinema for over 40 films in the span of the years that she worked in as an actress and as well as a director that got her popularity in the Bollywood.