Nandita Das
Also Known As: நந்திதா தாஸ், नंदिता दास, നന്ദിത ദാസ്, నందితా దాస్, নন্দিতা দাস, ନନ୍ଦିତା ଦାସ, نندیتا داس, નંદિતા દાસ, नन्दिता दास
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 more than 20 awards.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Birthday: November 07, 1969
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Gender: Female
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Fire
Overview: In a barren, arranged marriage to an amateur swami who seeks enlightenment through celibacy, Radha's life takes an irresistible turn when her beautiful young sister-in-law seeks to free herself from the confines of her own loveless marriage.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-22
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Earth
Overview: 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 love of two men and the rising tide of political and religious violence.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1998-09-16
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Kannathil Muthamittal
Overview: 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, where they encounter the militant group known as the Tamil Tigers.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 2002-02-14
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Provoked: A True Story
Overview: Provoked is the true story of Kiranjit Ahluwalia, a Punjabi woman who moved to London after her marriage with Deepak Ahluwalia. Her husband seemed caring at first but then began to beat her up. He started drinking a lot and sleeping around with other women. he also subjected her to spousal rape. After ten years and having two children with him, out of fear, she sets him on fire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-06
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I Am
Overview: 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 theme of fear and each is also based on real life stories. The film was financed by donations from more than 400 different people around the world, many of whom donated through social networking sites like Facebook. There are four stories but the characters are interwoven with each story. "Abhimanyu" is based on child abuse, "Omar" on gay rights, "Megha" is about Kashmiri Pandits and "Afia" deals with sperm donation. I Am was released with subtitles in all regions as six different languages are spoken in the film: Hindi, English, Kannada, Marathi, Bengali and Kashmiri.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2011-04-29
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Daughters of This Century
Overview: 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 Aei Daha, Prafulla Roy's Satgharia and Dibyendu Palit's Kaanch.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2001-03-14
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Aks
Overview: On the trail of an underworld contract killer, a dedicated police officer is thrust into a battle between good vs evil.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2001-07-13
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Four Women
Overview: A drama centered around four women at Kuttanad in Kerala's Alappuzha district.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 2007-11-02
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Neerparavai
Overview: 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 confesses that it was she who murdered her husband but when Agnes (Varsha), the cop assigned to the case, lends a sympathetic ear, she narrates a heart wrenching tale of a loving family ruined by the politics of territorial waters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 2012-11-30
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Punaradhivasam
Overview: 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 accept the reality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 2000-04-01
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Mother Of 1084
Overview: Dibyanath Chatterji, his bank-employed wife, Sujata, and only child, a son, Brati, live a middle-class 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1998-03-20
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Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyun Aata Hai?
Overview: 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 his way to Goa to carry out his first assignment as a hitman.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2019-04-12
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Vishwa Thulasi
Overview: 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 with her.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 2004-10-22
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Subho Mahurat
Overview: An actress mysteriously dies after the "Shubho Mahurat," a celebration of the first shot of the film. A journalist and her perceptive aunt investigate.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2003-07-25
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Traces of Sandalwood
Overview: 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 after their mother's death in a village. Thirty years later she will finally find out that Sita is alive and well in Barcelona. However, Sita's adoptive parents have erased all traces of her past. She is now called Paula, works as a researcher in Biology and has no recollection of her Indian background, let alone of Mina. Faced with the shocking truths of her past, Paula begins a long journey of self-discovery, aided along the way by her budding romance with the handsome Indian immigrant Prakash. A story of hope and love across Mumbai and Barcelona; from India to the Mediterranean and all the way back.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2014-11-28
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Aamaar Bhuvan
Overview: 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 India as a married rich man.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2002-04-01
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Pitaah
Overview: A small town in rural India gets to witness a confrontation between two fathers - one a rich, powerful, influential, and cruel Zamindar Thakur Avadh Narayan Singh - who wants the man who filed a police complaint against his two sons to be killed immediately. And the other is Rudra, a poor laborer employed by Avadh, who wants justice when he finds out that his nine year old daughter, Durga, has been beaten and brutally raped by Avadh's sons, Bachhu, and Bhola. Amidst this background we have a corrupt doctor, who is willing to change his medical report after he is bribed appropriately; and a Police Inspector, Ramnarayan Bhardwaj, who is willing to drop any charges against Avadh's sons provided he gets his "dues" from the Thakur.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2002-01-04
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Birthday
Overview: 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 several men.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-10
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One Day, 24 Hours
Overview: Set in a hectic world that takes place in 24 Ghante, this film features Rahul Bose, Nandita Das, Kabir Sadanand, Vineet Kumar, Shiv Subramaniam, Shilpa Mehta, Jayant Wadekar and Baby Nidh. Hailed as a groundbreaking Bollywood opus, it takes chances with its structure, plot and storyline to deliver a breakneck drama in a conceptually challenging fashion.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Before the Rains
Overview: 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 dangerous secrets. After a British spice planter falls in love with his alluring servant, an idealistic young man finds himself torn between his ambitions and his family, his village and his past.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-07
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Azhagi
Overview: Shanmugam meets his childhood sweetheart after many years and employs her as his housemaid as she urgently needs a job. However, his wife creates problems when she learns about their relationship.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 2002-01-14
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Kaleidoscope Now
Overview: A tribute to auteur Mrinal Sen, the film intricately weaves the personal and professional journeys of Kunal Sen and Ranjan through their collaboration on an ambitious film project, Chaalchitra, in 1981.
Genres: History Comedy Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2024-05-09
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Kamli
Overview: 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 documentary about the plight of tribal women selling their babies for a pittance. He actually contacted and wanted to make film with Soundarya as the main female lead of Kamli, but she died in a helicopter crash, and finally made the film with Nandita Das.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: te
Release Date: 2006-03-01
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Parinati
Overview: Based on a folk tale from Rajasthan, "Parinati" deals with the inherent tragedy of human avarice, which must inevitably lead to self-destruction. Ganesh, the protagonist, is a potter who leads a happy and contented life in a remote village. The only ambition he and his wife Kurjan share is to get their only son Laxman married and bring a daughter-in- law home. Destiny, however, has ordained otherwise. Ganesh is hand picked for his honesty and dedication by a local charitable Seth to become the caretaker of his inn in the middle of the desert. There, Ganesh and Kurjan meet a wealthy couple, who are greatly pleased with their service and hospitality. They offer to take their son Laxman to distant lands, teach him trade and make him fabulously rich.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1989-03-31
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A Knock on the Door
Overview: As they prepare to celebrate their wedding anniversary, politically committed professors Hari and Ramona receive a group of unwanted visitors claiming to be from a central intelligence agency. Dressed in white hazmat suits and wearing multifaced masks, the team of men and women raids their house, traumatising the couple and taking away their hard drives. The professors contact the police, but when their friends and acquaintances doubt their claims, Hari begins to break down.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-01-25
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Fertility
Overview: Family Planning issues in a Muslim Hyderabadi family struggling between new and old values
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2000-01-07
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A Drop of Life
Overview: 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.
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Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2007-10-13
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Deveeri
Overview: 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 dark life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: kn
Release Date: 1999-07-25
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Ramchand Pakistani
Overview: 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 Pakistan at a time of extreme war like tension between the 2 countries and end up spending 5 years in an Indian prison while the mother left behind wonders what has happened to them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ur
Release Date: 2008-04-20
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Khamosh Adalat Jaari Hai
Overview: 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 of playwright Vijay Tendulkar's Shantata. Court Chalu Aahe (1963).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2017-03-14
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Bawandar
Overview: 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 prevail due to general misinterpretation of the Hindu Shastras that demean women, particularly in Dhabri, a village in the state of Rajasthan. She does succeed in recruiting a young housewife, Saanvri, the mother of a young girl, Kamli, and wife of rickshaw driver, Sohan. Saanvri goes around the village raising awareness, and incurs the wrath of the village elders, mostly members of the Gujjar family.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2000-11-17
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Ek Alag Mausam
Overview: A movie about an Indian woman who finds out that she is HIV positive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Rockford
Overview: 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. The change is quite dramatic to the protagonist and there are a lot of events that could look extremely abusive to the viewer.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-07
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Kannaki
Overview: 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. It is loosely based on Shakespeare's story of Antony & Cleopatra
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ml
Release Date: 2002-08-01
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Lal Salaam
Overview: Based on the true stories of families, politics and tribes in Nagpur, India. Growing crime and military-style gangs have created chaos in local communities. This musical action film pits Dr. Kanna's allegiance to his childhood love, Rupi, against his increasingly militaristic brother Ghisu.
Genres: Action Drama Music
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2002-05-03
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Bas Yun Hi
Overview: 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 to marry a woman whose name begins with the letter V, Aditya decides to see for himself if this is true. *Subtitles not available for this feature* - Purab Kohli, Nandita Das, Rajiv Gopalakrishnan
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Biswaprakash
Overview: On his journey to self realization, Biswaparakash faces a changing value system in a new consumerist culture and that conflict with his beliefs, values and traditions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: or
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Dhaad
Overview: Drama centred around a dacoit named Ghela who believes in the power of the gun and regards it as a necessary tool for survival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: gu
Release Date: 2018-01-05
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Supari
Overview: 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 money (an act called) "Supari" to pay their debt. But things begin to change when the men realize that in this game of Supari, they are not just hunters but also the hunted.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2003-06-20
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Viraata Parvam
Overview: 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?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: te
Release Date: 2022-06-17
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Kagaar
Overview: Naive, simple-minded, and illiterate Bhaskar Sarnaik (Amitabh Dayal) comes to Bombay from his far-off village, to look for his missing brother, Raghuvir. He comes in contact with Sub-Inspector Gokhale (Om Puri), who feels sorry for him, and not only offers to find his brother, but also employment at an Irani Restaurant. Bhaskar does find his brother - in the morgue - but decides not to tell his mother as this may break her heart. He decides to stay on in Bombay and undergoes training to become a police officer. A short time later he is also a Sub-Inspector working closely with Gokhale. He is wounded in an encounter, and his mother comes to look after, and gets him to marry Aditi (Nandita Das) from the same village, which Bhaskar does so.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2003-10-03
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Bird of Dusk
Overview: An insight into the life of late writer-director Rituparno Ghosh, the iconic cultural figure from West Bengal (India), who pushed and transgressed the boundaries of sexuality, feminism, and freedom of thought. The film is about an artist's relationship to his city Calcutta and is based on his personal memoirs, archival material, and conversations with cast, crew, and family.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2018-06-24
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Listen To Her
Overview: 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 voice to a conversation that is much needed in the public space. It reminds us that speaking up is only possible when women know that there is someone listening. This pandemic has taught us that our lives are deeply intertwined, and so we must respond to the realities beyond ours.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-05-26
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Footsteps
Overview: At the end, the only love which lasts is the love that has accepted everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire as deep as the simple desire for companionship." Inspired by this Graham Greene quote, "Podokkhep" is the story of an unusual bond between a retired man and a 5-year-old girl where he rediscovers life in his twilight years through this friendship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bn
Release Date: 2006-10-01
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Retro
Overview: In the 1990s, the son of a dreaded gangster attempts to leave his violent life for his true love.
Genres: Romance Action Drama
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 2025-05-01
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