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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Kaleidoscope Now
2024
A tribute to auteur Mrinal Sen, the film intricately weaves the personal and professional journeys of Kunal Sen and Ranjan through their collaboration...

Zwigato
2023
Director, Producer, Writer
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
2023
as Reena
As they prepare to celebrate their wedding anniversary, politically committed professors Hari and Ramona receive a group of unwanted visitors claiming...

Viraata Parvam
2022
as Shakuntala
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
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
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?
2019
as Stella
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
2018
as Herself
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
2018
Director, Screenplay
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
2018
as Monghi
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
2017
Director
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
2017
as Leela Benare
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
2014
as Mina
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
2012
as Esther
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
2011
as Afia Kidwai
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
2009
Director, Screenplay, Story
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
2008
as Champa
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
2007
as The Spinster
A drama centered around four women at Kuttanad in Kerala's Alappuzha district.

A Drop of Life
2007
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
2007
as Sajaani
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
2007
as Radha Dalal
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
2006
as Megha
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
2006
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
2004
as Thulasi
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
2004
Director
‘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
2003
as Aditi
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
2003
as Mallika Sen
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
2003
as Mamta Shekari
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
2003
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
A movie about an Indian woman who finds out that she is HIV positive.
Bas Yun Hi
2003
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
2002
as Kannaki
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
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
2002
as Shokhina
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
2002
as M.D. Shyama
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
2002
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
2002
as Paro
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
2001
as Supriya
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
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
2000
as Saanvri
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
2000
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
2000
as Afsana
Family Planning issues in a Muslim Hyderabadi family struggling between new and old values

Rockford
1999
as Lily Vegas
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
1999
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
1999
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
1998
as Shanta
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
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
1998
as Nandini Mitra
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
1997
as Sita
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
1993
Director
“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
1989
as Lakha
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
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...