Nandita Das

Nandita Das

1969-11-07 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India 52 Credits

Biography

Nandita Das is an actor and director, one of the leading figures in the Indian film industry. She has acted in more than 40 feature films in ten different languages. Das has been acclaimed for numerous performances, including in Fire (1996), Earth (1998), Bawandar (2000), Kannathil Muthamittal (2002), Azhagi (2002), Kamli (2006), and Before The Rains (2007). Her directorial debut was with Firaaq (2008), which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, traveled to more than 50 festivals, and won mor...

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Kaleidoscope Now

Kaleidoscope Now

2024

Acting

A tribute to auteur Mrinal Sen, the film intricately weaves the personal and professional journeys of Kunal Sen and Ranjan through their collaboration...

Zwigato

Zwigato

2023

Director, Producer, Writer

6.9
Directing Producing Writing

Manas, an ex-factory floor manager loses his job during the pandemic. He is then forced to work as a food delivery rider, grappling with the app and t...

A Knock on the Door

A Knock on the Door

2023

as Reena

2.0
Acting

As they prepare to celebrate their wedding anniversary, politically committed professors Hari and Ramona receive a group of unwanted visitors claiming...

Viraata Parvam

Viraata Parvam

2022

as Shakuntala

4.8
Acting

Vennela has fallen for Aranya aka Ravanna’s poetry and the man both. What happens when she sets out on an arduous journey to be with him?

Listen To Her

2020

Acting

The film is a spontaneous response to the irony of “STAY HOME, STAY SAFE” for millions of women in India and around the world. The film is adding its ...

Listen To Her

2020

Director of Photography, Producer, Writer

Directing Producing Writing

The film is a spontaneous response to the irony of “STAY HOME, STAY SAFE” for millions of women in India and around the world. The film is adding its ...

Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyun Aata Hai?

Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyun Aata Hai?

2019

as Stella

4.5
Acting

Albert Pinto goes missing one day and his girlfriend and family start making rounds at the police station to track him down. Unknown to them, he is on...

Bird of Dusk

Bird of Dusk

2018

as Herself

Acting

An insight into the life of late writer-director Rituparno Ghosh, the iconic cultural figure from West Bengal (India), who pushed and transgressed the...

Manto

Manto

2018

Director, Screenplay

7.4
Directing Writing

In Bombay's seedy-shiny film world, Manto and his stories are widely read and accepted. But as sectarian violence engulfs the nation, Manto makes the ...

Dhaad

Dhaad

2018

as Monghi

Acting

Drama centred around a dacoit named Ghela who believes in the power of the gun and regards it as a necessary tool for survival.

In Defence Of Freedom

In Defence Of Freedom

2017

Director

Directing

This short film is literally a conglomeration of all the beautiful dialogues that were said by Nawazuddin Siddiqui in the feature film Manto(2018) by ...

Khamosh Adalat Jaari Hai

Khamosh Adalat Jaari Hai

2017

as Leela Benare

8.0
Acting

A mock trial during the rehearsal of a play quickly turns into a gripping drama about desire, gender issues, power and control, this is an adaptation ...

Traces of Sandalwood

Traces of Sandalwood

2014

as Mina

5.8
Acting

Despite her fame and fortune, Mina, a successful Indian actress in Mumbai, can't forget her little sister Sita, from whom she was forced to separate a...

Neerparavai

Neerparavai

2012

as Esther

6.2
Acting

A skeleton is found at the home of Esther (Nandita Das), whose fisherman husband Arulappasamy (Vishnu) has been missing for the past 25 years. Esther ...

I Am

I Am

2011

as Afia Kidwai

6.5
Acting

I Am is a 2011 Indian anthology film by Onir. It consists of four short films: "Omar", "Afia", "Abhimanyu", and "Megha". Each film shares the common t...

Firaaq

Firaaq

2009

Director, Screenplay, Story

6.1
Directing Writing

Firaaq is an Urdu word that means both separation and quest. The film is a work of fiction, based on a thousand stories. The story is set over a 24-ho...

Ramchand Pakistani

Ramchand Pakistani

2008

as Champa

8.1
Acting

Based on a actual events, the story is about a Pakistani Hindu boy and his father who accidentally cross the border into India from their village in P...

Four Women

Four Women

2007

as The Spinster

5.8
Acting

A drama centered around four women at Kuttanad in Kerala's Alappuzha district.

A Drop of Life

A Drop of Life

2007

Acting

A Drop of Life is a futuristic film about the intersecting lives of two women on two hemispheres, bound by the most precious resource on earth: water.

Before the Rains

Before the Rains

2007

as Sajaani

4.9
Acting

Set in southern India in the late 1930s, this provocative tale traces the story of three people caught in an inexorable web of forbidden romance and d...

Provoked: A True Story

Provoked: A True Story

2007

as Radha Dalal

6.8
Acting

Provoked is the true story of Kiranjit Ahluwalia, a Punjabi woman who moved to London after her marriage with Deepak Ahluwalia. Her husband seemed car...

Footsteps

Footsteps

2006

as Megha

Acting

At the end, the only love which lasts is the love that has accepted everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has acce...

Kamli

Kamli

2006

Acting

Kamli was actually inspired by a K.N.T. Sastry's award winning documentary harvesting babies. K.N.T. Sastry wanted to make a feature film based on the...

Vishwa Thulasi

Vishwa Thulasi

2004

as Thulasi

Acting

Thulasi, returns to her village to become a dance teacher. She cannot forget her love, Vishwa, but is haunted by the memory of her cousin's obsession ...

Beyond Boundaries - Cricket for Peace

Beyond Boundaries - Cricket for Peace

2004

Director

Directing

‘Beyond Boundaries’ was an Indo-Pak street children initiative. It was a response to the growing communal tension in the region. Cricket, a much rever...

Kagaar

Kagaar

2003

as Aditi

6.0
Acting

Naive, simple-minded, and illiterate Bhaskar Sarnaik (Amitabh Dayal) comes to Bombay from his far-off village, to look for his missing brother, Raghuv...

Subho Mahurat

Subho Mahurat

2003

as Mallika Sen

5.5
Acting

An actress mysteriously dies after the "Shubho Mahurat," a celebration of the first shot of the film. A journalist and her perceptive aunt investigate...

Supari

Supari

2003

as Mamta Shekari

3.0
Acting

Four best friends end up owing 500,000 rupees to Mamta Sekhri, a woman involved in various underworld activities. The friends are forced to kill for m...

One Day, 24 Hours

One Day, 24 Hours

2003

Acting

Set in a hectic world that takes place in 24 Ghante, this film features Rahul Bose, Nandita Das, Kabir Sadanand, Vineet Kumar, Shiv Subramaniam, Shilp...

Ek Alag Mausam

2003

as Aparna Suresh Verma

Acting

A movie about an Indian woman who finds out that she is HIV positive.

Bas Yun Hi

2003

Acting

Comedy - Aditya is a young man who does not believe in astrology, but when a friend makes his astrological chart and explains to him that he is fated ...

Kannaki

Kannaki

2002

as Kannaki

10.0
Acting

Villagers Manickan and Choman are very close friends. Manickan is in love with Kannaki and wants to marry her but Choman wants him to marry his sister...

Lal Salaam

2002

as Rupi

Acting

Based on the true stories of families, politics and tribes in Nagpur, India. Growing crime and military-style gangs have created chaos in local commu...

Aamaar Bhuvan

Aamaar Bhuvan

2002

as Shokhina

6.3
Acting

After Shokhina's marriage to Noor ends, she remarries Meher but faces many complications in her married life. Things get worse when Noor returns to In...

Kannathil Muthamittal

Kannathil Muthamittal

2002

as M.D. Shyama

7.6
Acting

A little girl is told by her parents that she is adopted. Determined to find her birth mother, her family eventually agrees to take her to Sri Lanka, ...

Azhagi

Azhagi

2002

6.2
Acting

Shanmugam meets his childhood sweetheart after many years and employs her as his housemaid as she urgently needs a job. However, his wife creates prob...

Pitaah

Pitaah

2002

as Paro

6.4
Acting

A small town in rural India gets to witness a confrontation between two fathers - one a rich, powerful, influential, and cruel Zamindar Thakur Avadh N...

Aks

Aks

2001

as Supriya

5.2
Acting

On the trail of an underworld contract killer, a dedicated police officer is thrust into a battle between good vs evil.

Daughters of This Century

2001

as Charu

Acting

This film is based on five shot stories of Rabindranath Tagore's Jibito O Mrito, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's Abhagir Swarga, Gour Kishore Ghosh's Ae...

Bawandar

Bawandar

2000

as Saanvri

6.0
Acting

Shoba T. Mathur works for the Central Government in India and her job is to create awareness against child-marriage and other social evils that prevai...

Punaradhivasam

Punaradhivasam

2000

Acting

In a world where the meaning of love and relationships is dwindling, a father-son duo, a married woman and a family's daughter-in-law struggle to acce...

Hari-Bhari

Hari-Bhari

2000

as Afsana

5.0
Acting

Family Planning issues in a Muslim Hyderabadi family struggling between new and old values

Rockford

Rockford

1999

as Lily Vegas

7.5
Acting

The movie chronicles the arrival of a (Hindu) student to a strict all-boys Christian boarding school in India and his assimilation into the school. Th...

Deveeri

Deveeri

1999

Acting

A young spirited boy, Kyatha, lives in the slums along with his protective elder sister, who works as a prostitute but tries to shield him from her da...

Biswaprakash

Biswaprakash

1999

Acting

On his journey to self realization, Biswaparakash faces a changing value system in a new consumerist culture and that conflict with his beliefs, value...

Earth

Earth

1998

as Shanta

6.6
Acting

It's 1947 and the borderlines between India and Pakistan are being drawn. A young girl bears witnesses to tragedy as her ayah is caught between the lo...

Birthday

1998

as Sarasu

Acting

As a mother waits with her pregnant daughter for the arrival of a grandchild, the story flashes back to the relationships the daughter has had with se...

Mother Of 1084

Mother Of 1084

1998

as Nandini Mitra

7.7
Acting

Dibyanath Chatterji, his bank-employed wife, Sujata, and only child, a son, Brati, live a middle-class existence in Calcutta, West Bengal, India, circ...

Fire

Fire

1997

as Sita

6.7
Acting

In a barren, arranged marriage to an amateur swami who seeks enlightenment through celibacy, Radha's life takes an irresistible turn when her beautifu...

Imprint in Clay

Imprint in Clay

1993

Director

Directing

“Sardar Gurcharan Singh was the father of studio pottery in India. "Daddyji" as most called him lovingly was very close to my father. I often tagged a...

Parinati

Parinati

1989

as Lakha

Acting

Based on a folk tale from Rajasthan, "Parinati" deals with the inherent tragedy of human avarice, which must inevitably lead to self-destruction. Gan...

Avi & Smi

N/A

Director, Producer

Directing Producing

After 6 months of separation, Avi and Smi revisit their 16-year marriage over a day and night – what held them together, what drove them apart. Will t...