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Occupation
  
Actress, director

Children
  
Vihaan Maskara

Parents
  
Jatin Das, Varsha Das


Name
  
Nandita Das

Years active
  
1989, 1996–present

Siblings
  
Siddhartha Das

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Born
  
7 November 1969 (age 54) (
1969-11-07
)

Role
  
Film actress · nanditadas.com

Spouse
  
Subodh Maskara (m. 2010), Saumya Sen (m. 2002–2009)

Movies
  
Before the Rains, Fire, Earth, Firaaq, Kamli

Similar People
  
Shabana Azmi, Jatin Das, Deepa Mehta, Nanditha Raj, Shahana Goswami

Profiles

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Nandita Das is an Indian film actress and director. She has acted in over 30 feature films in ten different languages. As an actress, she is known for her performances in Fire (1996), Earth (1998), Bawandar (2000), Kannathil Muthamittal (2002), Azhagi and Before The Rains (2007). Firaaq, her directorial debut feature film, premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2008, and has traveled to over 50 festivals, winning over 20 awards. She has been on the jury of Cannes Film Festival twice—2005 and 2013—among others. She has been awarded the Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Government of France for her contribution towards arts. Nandita Das was the first Indian to be inducted into the International Women's Forum's hall of fame for her contributions to the arts.

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Early life and education

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Das was born in 1969 to Jatin Das, a popular artist, and Varsha, a writer. Das is of Odia descent on her father's side and Gujarati on her mother’s side. She has a younger brother who works as a creative designer. Despite being born in Mumbai, she was largely brought up in Delhi, where she was schooled at the Sardar Patel Vidyalaya. Later, she received her bachelor's degree in Geography from Miranda House and a Master of Social Work degree from the Delhi School of Social Work, both affiliated to the University of Delhi.

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Nandita Das was a Yale World Fellow 2014. She was among the 16 emerging global leaders who were chosen from close to 4000 applicants. The mission of the fellowship is to cultivate and empower a network of globally engaged leaders committed to positive change through dialogue and action.

Acting

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Nandita Das started her acting career with the theatre group Jana Natya Manch. She taught at the Rishi Valley School.

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She has acted in over 40 feature films in ten different languages with many eminent directors like Mrinal Sen, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Shyam Benegal, Deepa Mehta, Mani Ratnam and others.

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She is best known for her performances in Deepa Mehta films Fire, Earth alongside Aamir Khan, Bawander (directed by Jagmohan Mundhra) and Naalu Pennungal (directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan ). Das has acted in films in ten different languages: English, Hindi, Bengali, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Marathi, Oriya and Kannada. The movie star Sukanya provided Das' speaking voice in the Tamil classic Kannathil Muthamittal.

Nandita Das revisited her theatre roots with a play called Between the Lines co-written and directed by her. She has also acted in Khamosh! Adalat jaari hai, a Cineplay production written by Vijay Tendulkar's

Directing

In 2008, she completed filming her directorial debut, Firaaq. Firaaq is a work of fiction, based on a thousand true stories and is set a month after the Gujarat riots in 2002. It is an ensemble film that interweaves multiple stories over a 24-hour period, as the characters from different strata of society, grapple with the lingering effects of violence. The film traces the emotional journeys of ordinary people – some who were victims, some perpetrators and some who chose to watch silently. The film's stellar cast includes Naseeruddin Shah, Raghubir Yadav, Paresh Rawal, Deepti Naval, Sanjay Suri, Tisca Chopra, Shahana Goswami and Nawazuddin Siddiqui.

Firaaq, her directorial debut feature film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2008, and has travelled to over 50 festivals, winning much appreciation from critics and audiences and has won over 10 international awards and 10 within the country.

The film won top honours at the Asian Festival of First Films 2008 in Singapore, where it won the awards for "Best Film", "Screenplay / Script", and "Foreign Correspondents Assn. Purple Orchid Award for Best Film". The film has also won awards at other international film festivals, including the Special Prize Award at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival in Greece, the Special Jury Award at the International Film Festival of Kerala, and the Best Editor award for the film's editor Sreekar Prasad at the Dubai International Film Festival. It was released in India on 20 March 2009. The film also won an award at the Kara Film Festival. Das said that the film "gave a voice to so much that remains silent".

Voice narration

Das narrated the children's audiobook series Under the Banyan, and Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography by Charkha Audiobooks The Story of My Experiments with Truth. She has also lent her voice to the children's television series, Wonder Pets as the Bengal Tiger.

Personal life

In 2002, Das married Saumya Sen. The couple began Leapfrog, a media organisation geared towards making socially conscious ad films. The couple divorced in 2007. After dating Subodh Maskara, an industrialist based out of Mumbai for a couple of months, she married him on 2 January 2010 and moved to Mumbai. Das and Maskara had a baby boy named Vihaan. In January 2017, the couple announced that they have parted ways. Das has remained an atheist throughout her life.

Activism

Das has done her Masters in Social Work from the University of Delhi and continues to advocate issues of social justice and human rights. She is a passionate volunteer and served as a Guest of honour in the prestigious iVolunteer Awards 2012, held in Mumbai.

Among other topics, she speaks to campaign for child survival, against AIDS, and violence against women. She was appointed as the chairperson of the Children's Film Society of India in 2009.

She was also one of the petitioners who sought mercy for Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab involved in Mumbai 26/11 terror attack. Das also donated INR 1 lac for setting up online magazine Tehelka founded by Tarun Tejpal.

She was a member of the main jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005, among other reputed international film festivals. She has served as the Chairperson of the Children's Film Society, India.

She has spoken out against the dark skin colour bias in India. "Even in the [Indian film] industry when a makeup man or a cinematographer would come and say can you lighten your skin a little, especially when you are playing the middle class educated character," she said in an interview in September 2014.

Speaking engagements

Nandita Das is a featured speaker who has spoken at various platforms, both in India and around the world. She spoke at MIT on 12 April 2007 after a screening of Fire.

In 2013, she gave her support to the Dark is Beautiful campaign to draw attention to the unjust effects of skin colour bias in India and celebrate the beauty and diversity of all skin tones. She is exhorting women to 'Stay Unfair, Stay Beautiful' She spoke at Tufts University on 30 October 2014 on gender in society and cinema.

Awards

The French government has bestowed on Nandita Das the award of Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters, a very prestigious Civil Award. In 2011, she was the first Indian to be inducted into the Hall of Fame of the International Women's Forum, Washington DC. On 10.03.2009 France released a self-adhesive stamp as part of the project "Women of the world" for Nandita Das.

2000 45th Filmfare Awards
  • Won – Best Debut – 1947 Earth
  • 2001 Santa Monica Film Festival
  • Won – Best Actress – Bawander
  • 2002 Cairo International Film Festival
  • Won – Best Actress – Amaar Bhuvan
  • 2002 Tamil Nadu State Film Awards
  • Won – Special Prize – Kannathil Muthamittal
  • 2005 Cannes Film Festival
  • May 2005 – Das served as a Member of the Jury at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival
  • 2006 Nandi Awards
  • Won – Best Actress – Kamli
  • 2008 Asian Festival of First Films
  • Won – Best Film – Firaaq
  • Won – Best Screenplay – Firaaq
  • Won – Foreign Correspondents Association Purple Orchid Award for Best Film – Firaaq
  • 2008 Government of France
  • Won – Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
  • 2009 Kara Film Festival
  • Won – Best Film
  • 2009 International Film Festival of Kerala
  • Won – Special Jury Award – Firaaq
  • 2009 Thessaloniki International Film Festival
  • Won – Special Prize (Everyday Life: Transcendence or Reconciliation Award) – Firaaq
  • Nominated – Golden Alexander – Firaaq
  • 2010 Filmfare Awards
  • Won – Special Award – Firaaq
  • 2013 2nd South Indian International Movie Awards
  • Nominated—Best Actress in a Supporting Role – Neerparavai
  • Filmography

    Actress
    -
    Notorious Girls (TV Series) (filming)
    2023
    A Knock on the Door as
    Reena
    2022
    Virata Parvam as
    Shakuntala
    2021
    Cuber (Short) as
    Mother
    2021
    Call My Agent Bollywood (TV Series) as
    Nandita Das
    - In the Dog House (2021) - Nandita Das
    2020
    Safar (Short) as
    Oriya and Gujarati Rendition (voice)
    2020
    Listen to Her (Short) as
    Ayesha
    2020
    Parinati as
    Lakha
    2019
    India's got Colour (Music Video)
    2019
    Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyun Aata Hai? as
    Stella
    2018
    Aamaar Bhuvan as
    Sakina
    2018
    Dhaad
    2017
    Khamosh Adalat Jaari Hai as
    Leela Benare
    2015
    Silence the Court Is in Session as
    Leela Benare
    2014
    Traces of Sandalwood as
    Mina
    2014
    Nandita Das and Divya Jagdale's Between the Lines as
    Maya Anand / Kavita Upadhyay
    2013
    Oonga as
    Hemla
    2012
    Neer Paravai as
    older Esther
    2010
    I Am as
    Afia Kidwai
    2010
    Karadi Tales (TV Mini Series)
    2008
    Wonder Pets! (TV Series) as
    Bengal Tiger
    - Save the Bengal Tiger (2008) - Bengal Tiger (voice)
    2008
    Ramchand Pakistani as
    Champa
    2007
    A Drop of Life (Short) as
    Mira Ben
    2007
    Naalu Pennungal as
    Kamakshi
    2007
    Before the Rains as
    Sajani
    2006
    Podokkhep as
    Megha
    2006
    Maati Maay as
    Chandi
    2006
    Provoked as
    Radha Dalal
    2006
    Kamli as
    Kamli
    2005
    Fleeting Beauty (Short) as
    Indian woman
    2004
    Vishwa Thulasi as
    Thulasi
    2003
    Ek Din 24 Ghante as
    Sameera Dutta
    2003
    Kagaar: Life on the Edge as
    Aditi
    2003
    Shubho Mahurat as
    Mallika Sen
    2003
    Supari as
    Mamta Shekari
    2003
    Bas Yun Hi as
    Veda
    2003
    Ek Alag Mausam as
    Aparna Suresh Verma
    2002
    Solla Marantha Kathai
    2002
    Lal Salaam as
    Rupi 'Comrade Chandrika'
    2002
    Kannathil Muthamittal as
    Shyama
    2002
    Azhagi as
    Dhanalakshmi
    2002
    Pitaah as
    Paro
    2001
    Kannaki as
    Kannaki
    2001
    Daughters of This Century as
    Charu
    2001
    Aks as
    Supriya Verma
    2000
    Punaradhivasam
    2000
    Bawandar as
    Saanvri
    2000
    As Night Falls (Short)
    2000
    Hari-Bhari as
    Afsana
    1999
    Deveeri as
    Deveeri (Akka)
    1999
    Rockford as
    Lily Vegas
    1999
    Biswaprakash
    1998
    Earth as
    Shanta
    1998
    Janmadinam as
    Sarasu
    1998
    Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa as
    Nandini Mitra
    1996
    Fire as
    Sita
    1994
    Ek Thi Goonja
    Animation Department
    2014
    Ein Fall für TKKG (TV Series) (junior animator - 26 episodes)
    - Bei Anruf - Angst (2015) - (junior animator)
    - Das Phantom auf dem Feuerstuhl (2015) - (junior animator)
    - Der blinde Hellseher (2014) - (junior animator)
    - Spuk aus dem Jenseits (2014) - (junior animator)
    - Hundediebe kennen keine Gnade (2014) - (junior animator)
    - Der Mörder aus dem Schauerwald (2014) - (junior animator)
    - Heißes Gold im Silbersee (2014) - (junior animator)
    - Das Phantom im Schokoladenmuseum (2014) - (junior animator)
    - Wer hat Tims Mutter entführt? (2014) - (junior animator)
    - Klassenfahrt zur Hexenburg (2014) - (junior animator)
    - Die Stunde der schwarzen Maske (2014) - (junior animator)
    - Gefangen in der Schreckenskammer - (junior animator)
    - Terror aus dem Pulverfass - (junior animator)
    - Im Schattenreich des Dr. Mubase - (junior animator)
    - Der Diamant im Bauch der Kobra - (junior animator)
    - Das leere Grab im Moor - (junior animator)
    - Wer raubte das Millionenpferd? - (junior animator)
    - Anschlag auf den Silberpfeil - (junior animator)
    - Alarm! Klößchen ist verschwunden - (junior animator)
    - Rätsel um die alte Villa - (junior animator)
    - X7 antwortet nicht - (junior animator)
    - Im Kaufhaus ist die Hölle los - (junior animator)
    - In den Klauen des Tigers - (junior animator)
    - Heißer Draht nach Paradiso - (junior animator)
    - Im Wettbüro des Teufels - (junior animator)
    - Im Schloss der schlafenden Vampire - (junior animator)
    Director
    2022
    Zwigato
    2021
    Cuber (Short)
    2020
    Listen to Her (Short)
    2019
    India's got Colour (Music Video) (directed by)
    2018
    Raftaar & Nawazuddin Siddiqui: Mantoiyat (Music Video short)
    2018
    Manto
    2008
    Firaaq
    2003
    Roll Call (Short)
    1993
    Imprint in Clay (Documentary short)
    Writer
    2022
    Zwigato (screenplay)
    2021
    Cuber (Short)
    2020
    Listen to Her (Short)
    2018
    Manto
    2014
    Nandita Das and Divya Jagdale's Between the Lines
    2008
    Firaaq (screenplay) / (story)
    2003
    Roll Call (Short)
    1993
    Imprint in Clay (Documentary short)
    Producer
    2022
    Zwigato (producer)
    2021
    Cuber (Short) (producer)
    Costume Department
    2014
    Traces of Sandalwood (costume designer: Nandita Das)
    Editor
    2003
    Roll Call (Short)
    Music Department
    2001
    Aks (playback singer)
    Miscellaneous
    2022
    Zwigato (subtitles)
    Thanks
    2017
    Raghu Rai: An Unframed Portrait (Documentary) (thanks)
    2014
    Safar (Short) (special thanks)
    2014
    Red Monsoon (very special thanks)
    2011
    Gattu (special thanks)
    Self
    2023
    The Kapil Sharma Show (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Zwigato Special (2023) - Self
    2018
    Q with Tom Power (TV Series) as
    Self - Guest
    - Josh Groban; Troye Sivan; Chilly Gonzales (2018) - Self - Guest
    2015
    In All Fairness (Documentary short)
    2015
    Festival de cine de San Sebastián - Gala de clausura (TV Special) as
    Self - Jury Member
    2015
    Festival de cine de San Sebastián - Gala de inauguración (TV Special) as
    Self - Jury Member
    2011
    Días de cine (TV Series) as
    Self - Interviewee
    - Episode dated 2 June 2011 (2011) - Self - Interviewee
    2010
    55th Idea Filmfare Awards (TV Special) as
    Self - Best Director (Critics)
    2009
    49o Festival Thessalonikis - 19 kinimatografistes (TV Movie documentary)
    2007
    Shootout (TV Series) as
    Self
    - Karlovy Vary Film Festival (2007) - Self
    2005
    Cannes Film Festival (TV Series) as
    Self - Jury Member
    - Cérémonie de clôture du 58ème Festival international du film de Cannes (2005) - Self - Jury Member
    - Cérémonie d'ouverture du 58ème Festival international du film de Cannes (2005) - Self - Jury Member
    2005
    Comme au cinéma (TV Series documentary) as
    Self
    - Episode dated 17 May 2005 (2005) - Self
    1993
    Imprint in Clay (Documentary short)

    References

    Nandita Das Wikipedia


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