Nandita Das Actress Biography

Nandita Das
Nanditha Das
Born	7 November 1969 (age 52) Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Occupation	Actress, director
Years active	1989, 1996–2021
Spouse(s)	Soumya Sen ​ ​ (m. 2002; div. 2007)​ Subodh Maskara   ​ (m. 2010⁠–⁠2017)​
Children	1
Honours	Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2011)

Nandita Das (born 7 November 1969) is an Indian actress and director. She has acted in over 40 feature films in ten different languages. Das won critical acclaim and accolades 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 Firaaq (2008), premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and traveled to more than 50 festivals, winning more than 20 awards. Her second film as a director was Manto (2018). Based on the life of 20th Century Indo-Pakistani short story writer Sadat Hasan Manto, the film was screened at Cannes Film Festival in the "Un Certain Regard" section.^[1] In September 2019, Das produced a two-minute Public Service Announcement music video India's Got Colour. The music video is about the issue of colourism and urges the audience to celebrate India's diversity of skin colour.^[2] Her first book was 'Manto & I' chronicles her 6-year long journey of making the film. She wrote, directed, produced and acted in a short film called, Listen to Her, that sheds light on the increase in domestic violence and overburden of work that women have been facing during the lockdown.

Das has served twice on the jury of the Cannes Film Festival. In 2005, she served on the main competition jury alongside Fatih Akin, Javier Bardem, Salma Hayek, Benoît Jacquot, Emir Kusturica, Toni Morrison, Agnès Varda, and John Woo. In 2013, she served on the Cinéfondation and short films jury with Jane Campion, Maji-da Abdi, Nicoletta Braschi, and Semih Kaplanoğlu.

In 2011, she was made Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) by the French Government, one of the nation's highest civilian awards.^[3] She was commended for her "contribution towards the development of Indo-French cooperation in the field of cinema."^[4] In 2009, France released a stamp featuring Das, from artist Titouan Lamazou's project "Women of the World."^[5][6]

Das was the first Indian inducted into the International Hall of Fame of the International Women's Forum in Washington, DC. She was recognized in 2011 for "her sustained contributions to the arts and to the world as one of the most gripping cinema arts leaders of our time."^{[7][8][9][10]} Her fellow inductees were Anna Fendi, Heidi Klum, and Madam Chen Zhili.

Nandita Das Movies List:

	Bangle Box		Hindi
1989	Parinati		Hindi
1995	Ek Thi Goonja	Goonja	Hindi
1996	Fire	Sita	English
1998	1947 Earth	Shanta, the Ayah	Hindi
1998	Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa	Nandini Mitra	Hindi
1998	Janmadinam	Sarasu	Malayalam
1998	Biswaprakash	Anjali	Odia
1999	Deveeri	Deveeri (Akka)	Kannada
1999	Rockford	Lily Vegas	English
1999	Punaradhivasam	Shalini	Malayalam
2000	Hari-Bhari	Afsana	Hindi
2000	Saanjh		Hindi
2000	Bawandar	Sanwari	Hindi, Rajasthani, English
2001	Aks	Supriya Verma	Hindi
2001	Daughters of the Century	Charu	Hindi
2002	Aamaar Bhuvan	Sakina	Bengali
2002	Kannaki	Kannaki	Malayalam
2002	Pitaah	Paro	Hindi
2002	Azhagi	Dhanalakshmi	Tamil
2002	Kannathil Muthamittal	Shyama	Tamil
2002	Lal Salaam	Rupi(alias Chandrakka)	Hindi
2003	Ek Alag Mausam	Aparna Verma	Hindi
2003	Bas Yun Hi	Veda	Hindi
2003	Supari	Mamta Sikri	Urdu
2003	Shubho Mahurat	Mallika Sen	Bengali
2003	Kagaar: Life on the Edge	Aditi	Hindi
2003	Ek Din 24 Ghante	Sameera Dutta	Hindi
2004	Vishwa Thulasi	Sita	Tamil
2005	Fleeting Beauty	Indian woman	English
2006	Maati Maay	Chandi	Marathi
2006	Podokkhep	Megha	Bengali
2006	Kamli	Kamli	Telugu
2007	Before the Rains	Sajani	English, Malayalam
2007	Provoked	Radha Dalal	English
2007	Naalu Pennungal	Kamakshi	Malayalam
2007	Paani: A Drop of Life	Mira Ben	Hindi
2008	Ramchand Pakistani	Champa	Urdu
2011	I Am	Afia	Hindi
2012	Neerparavai	Esther	Tamil
2014	Rastres de Sàndal	Mina Kuminar	English, Catalan
2017	Khamosh! Adalat Jaari Hai	Leela Benare	Hindi
2018	Dhaad	Monghi	Gujarati[49]
2019	Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyun Aata Hai?	Stella	Hindi
2021	Virata Parvam	TBA	Telugu

Nandita Das Directed Movies List:

2008	Firaaq	Hindi Urdu & Gujarati
2017	In Defence of Freedom	Hindi
2018	Manto	Hindi Urdu
2019	India's Got Colour	Hindi

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