Tannishtha Chatterjee

Tannishtha Chatterjee

Birthday: 1980-11-23

Place of Birth: Pune, Maharashtra, India

Biography: Tannishtha Chatterjee  is an Indian actor. She is best known in the west for her performance in the British film Brick Lane (2007), the film adaptation of Monica Ali's best selling novel of the same name. She has been the only Indian to be nominated for the British Independent Film Awards (BAFTA) as the best actress for Brick Lane. Her other notables roles have been in Academy Award-winning German director Florian Gallenberger's film, Shadows of Time, Road, Movie with Abhay Deol and Bibar for which she won Best Actress at the 2006 Osian Film Festival and the 2007 BFJA awards.

Movies

Brick Lane
Brick Lane

The grind of daily life as a Brick Lane Bangladessi as seen through the eyes of Nazneen (Chatterjee)...

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Barah Aana
Barah Aana

Barah Aana is a comedy of real life set in today's Mumbai. The story revolves around three unlikely ...

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Meena
Meena

Meena is a documentary film about sex trafficking in India based on a true story....

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Road, Movie
Road, Movie

Vishnu has a bleak future before him, he must join his father in the family's oil business and try a...

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Shadows of Time
Shadows of Time

Ravi and Masha are just children when they were sold into labour by their parents. When they meet, f...

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Interdependence
Interdependence

Started in 2018, the project – comprised of 11 segments by filmmakers from all around the world – re...

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Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the w...

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Jalpari
Jalpari

Tomboy Shreya coaxes her widower father Dev to take her to their ancestral village in Haryana someth...

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Yellow Bus
Yellow Bus

In the sweltering Arabian Gulf heat Ananda’s dreams of a better life than the one she left behind in...

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Notes on her
Notes on her

Was the only official entry from India for the Oscar awards at Los Angeles in the shorts section-in ...

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Monsoon Shootout
Monsoon Shootout

A rookie cop joins the crime branch of the Mumbai police department, and on his first assignment is ...

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Siddharth
Siddharth

A chain-wallah from Delhi travels across India in search of his missing son, in the hopes that whoev...

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Gulaab Gang
Gulaab Gang

A fearless woman fights social injustice; creating a sanctuary for abused women and battling a crook...

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A Prayer for Rain
A Prayer for Rain

Thirty years on from the 1984 Union Carbide plant malfunction, the consequences of which are tragica...

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Rani Rani Rani
Rani Rani Rani

A caretaker is trapped in a time loop with her husband on one hand, and his brother and ruthless sis...

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Ek Ruka Hua Faisla
Ek Ruka Hua Faisla

Official remake of Basu Chatterjee's 1986 classic film of the same name, an Indian adaptation of Hol...

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Water
Water

Jal revolves around a young man named Bakka, who is gifted with a special ability to find water in t...

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Rough Book
Rough Book

Rough Book is a hard look at the education system in contemporary India. Though one of the finest sy...

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Sunrise
Sunrise

Inspector Joshi is a grieving father searching for his daughter Aruna, kidnapped years ago when she ...

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Lion
Lion

A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. ...

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Chauranga
Chauranga

A fourteen year old Dalit (lower caste) boy in rural India is killed for writing a love letter....

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Let the Wind Blow
Let the Wind Blow

At the height of nuclear tensions between India and Pakistan, Arjun and his best friend, Chabia, wei...

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Parched
Parched

In the arid landscape of Rajasthan, four women navigate their way through personal and cultural diff...

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unINDIAN
unINDIAN

Single mum Meera is an Australian of Indian origin. Smart and independent, she has carved out a succ...

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Gour Hari Dastaan
Gour Hari Dastaan

Gour Hari Das, a freedom fighter who works in Khadi Kraft and lives along with his wife & son, l...

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Joram
Joram

A father is on the run with his little baby girl to escape the ghosts of his past and the forces tha...

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Dekh Indian Circus
Dekh Indian Circus

Kajroo and her family live a tough existence in rural Rajisthan. When a circus sets up in a nearby t...

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Island City
Island City

A collection of three comic-dramatic stories set in Mumbai. The first is about a diligent office wor...

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Dahini - The Witch
Dahini - The Witch

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Angry Indian Goddesses
Angry Indian Goddesses

A photographer invites her closest friends to vacation at her family's home in Goa in celebration of...

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Feast of Varanasi
Feast of Varanasi

An investigator is dispatched to Varanasi to look into a series of grisly murders....

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Bombay Summer
Bombay Summer

Bombay Summer explores the fleeting and delicate friendship between three young people in Mumbai, In...

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Miles of Sand
Miles of Sand

A single mother in rural India has to pay a heavy price to repay her debts....

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Guy in the Sky
Guy in the Sky

Mehak and Raghav are a picture-perfect urban middle-class couple. But the friction in their relation...

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Beyond the Clouds
Beyond the Clouds

A hedonistic teenager in Mumbai is busted for dealing drugs and goes to his estranged sister for hel...

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Bas Yun Hi
Bas Yun Hi

Comedy - Aditya is a young man who does not believe in astrology, but when a friend makes his astrol...

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Lihaaf: The Quilt
Lihaaf: The Quilt

A period drama, the film is based on Ismat Chugtai's most celebrated story "Lihaaf" (published 1942)...

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Rakkhosh
Rakkhosh

The movie explores the horrors and fantasies of a patient trapped in a mental asylum....

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Jhalki
Jhalki

A lyrical story of lost childhood, against the powerful backdrop of child slavery and human traffick...

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Monkey Bastard!
Monkey Bastard!

A darkly ironic melodrama of star-crossed lovers Gulshan and Manisha, whose forbidden love yearns to...

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Roam Rome Mein
Roam Rome Mein

Raj goes to Rome looking for his missing sister Reena. Through the search he discovers the real Reen...

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I Love NY
I Love NY

Two strangers meet in Manhattan on New Year's Eve, and both of their lives are forever transformed i...

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Calcutta Unabashed
Calcutta Unabashed

A young man negotiates his erotic and thanatotic drives....

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The Little Republic
The Little Republic

The women of a small Indian village band together when they discover a possible solution for a badly...

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Strings
Strings

The only daughter of a widowed temple priest falls in love with a British traveler who's come search...

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The Storyteller
The Storyteller

After decades of working in the printing industry in Kolkata in eastern India, Tarini has reached re...

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