
Nandita Das
Actor · b. 1969 · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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.
Movies23
Movie6.7DramaProvoked 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.
Provoked
2007 · 24 votes
Movie7.5DramaComedyThe 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.
Rockford
1999 · 14 votes
MovieDramaKamli 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.
Kamli
2006
Movie6.8DramaRomanceIn 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.
Movie6.6DramaRomanceIn 1947, 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.
Movie6.5DocumentaryDramaI 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.
I Am
2011 · 12 votes
Movie7.0RomanceDramaThulasi, 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.
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1970s, Andhra Pradesh. Deep in the forest, the last of an ancient tribe tenuously holds onto its way of life amid disturbing omens and a brutal drought.
Movie6.1DramaA 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.
Movie4.8DramaRomanceSet 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.
Before the Rains
2007 · 15 votes
Movie7.7DramaWarA 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.
Movie5.2CrimeThrillerOn the trail of an underworld contract killer, a dedicated police officer is thrust into a battle between good vs evil.
Movie8.0DramaGreedy innkeepers resort to robbery and murder after their son leaves to seek a better life.
Parinati
1989 · 1 votes
Movie5.0DramaRomanceVennela 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?
Movie5.8DramaDespite 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.
Movie6.3DramaA rural Indian woman joins a campaign against social injustice. Her activism sparks violent retaliation from village elders, forcing her to navigate a corrupt legal system.
Bawandar
2000 · 4 votes
MovieDocumentaryAn 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.
Bird of Dusk
2018
Movie8.1DramaBased 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.
Ramchand Pakistani
2008 · 11 votes
Movie7.9DramaA bank worker tries to understand her son's actions after he dies in a revolutionary movement.
MovieDramaAt 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.
Movie6.4DramaActionA man seeks justice against two men who raped his young daughter.
Pitaah
2002 · 7 votes
Movie6.8DramaAfter 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.
Movie7.5DramaRomanceShanmugam 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.
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TV7.0ComedyTalk ShowKapil Sharma is back with his gang - Bindu, Chandan and 'mohalle ki dhoban' Gudiya. In tow is a new character, Maski, along with Goli, Roopmati and more! Enjoy guaranteed laughter with Kapil and his antics as different celebrities join in.
The Kapil Sharma Show
2016 · 40 votes
TV7.2AnimationKidsWhen school ends for the day, Linny, Tuck and Ming-Ming -- an animated trio of classroom pets -- morph into heroes who sail the globe in their fantastic Flyboat and use teamwork to help pandas, elephants and other animals who are in trouble.
Wonder Pets!
2006 · 44 votes
TV5.7ComedyDramaFrom pulling off casting coups to calming celebrity egos, the drama never stops for four Mumbai talent agents hustling to save their sinking company.
Call My Agent Bollywood
2021 · 3 votes
TVDramaThe lives of 5 self-absorbed Gen Z freshers is about to change as they enter the corridors of Matilda House college. Deep friendships form over a year of mistakes, heartbreaks and self-discovery as they put themselves between their college & the forces that threaten it.