Ananya Chatterjee

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Ananya Chatterjee
The President, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil presenting the Rajat Kamal Award to Ms. Ananya Chatterjee for the Best Actress (Film Abohomaan) at the 57th National Film Awards function, in New Delhi on October 22, 2010.jpg
Chatterjee (right) receiving the National Award from Pratibha Patil (left) at the 57th National Film Awards, 2010 [1]
Born
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Alma mater University of Calcutta
OccupationActress
Years active2001–present
Spouse
Raj Banerjee
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(m. 2015;div. 2019)​
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Ananya Chatterjee is an Indian actress who works in Bengali films. [3] Known for her role in Abahoman which won her a National Award. [4] She started her career as a TV actress. She acted in several TV serials and films, including three directed by Anjan Dutt. Her role as the muse of a married director in Abahoman, directed by Rituparno Ghosh, won her the National Film Award for Best Actress. [5]

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Early life and education

Brought up in Kolkata, Chatterjee underwent education at G. D. Birla Centre and passed Class 10 board exams in 1994. Chatterjee studied microbiology at Jogamaya Devi College, an affiliated undergraduate women's college of the University of Calcutta. [6]

Career

Chatterjee was a student in Mamata Shankar's dance institution, when she started her acting career on television, with the TV series Din Pratidin where she acted opposite Rudranil Ghosh, and went to on appear on soap operas like Tithir Atithi, Aleya, and Ananya. [6] Despite having no formal training in acting, her work was appreciated and she became a household name; [6] soon appearing in three telefilms directed by Anjan Dutt, John Johnny Janardan, Ek Din Darjeeling and Amar Baba. [7] Subsequently, she made her feature film debut with Sharan Dutta's thriller Raat Barota Paanch (2005). [5] After appearing in the comedy Aamra (2006) by Mainak Bhaumik, her next important film was debutant director Agnidev Chatterjee's, Probhu Nashto Hoye Jai (Lord, Let the Devil Steal My Soul), which premiered at the 13th Kolkata Film Festival. [8]

In 2009, appearing opposite veteran Soumitra Chatterjee in Suman Ghosh's Dwando she managed to stand her ground and then in Anup Sengupta's Mama Bhagne (2009) where again her performance was reviewed as "stellar". [9] [10] However, it was in Rituparno Ghosh's Abohoman , released in 2010, that established her as an actress of repute, [11] winning her first National Film Award for Best Actress. In the 2012 Bengali film Meghe Dhaka Tara directed by Kamaleswar Mukherjee, Chatterjee played the role of Durga, wife of Nilkantha Bagchi. [12]

She performed the lead role in the popular Bengali serial Subarnolata airing on Zee Bangla. [13]

Filmography

YearFilmDirectorCharacter
2005Raat Barota PaanchSaran DuttaShyamali
2006 Aamra Mainak Bhaumik Shreya
2007 Probhu Nosto Hoi Jai Agnidev Chatterjee Jhilmil Chowdhury
2009 Angshumaner Chhobi Atanu Ghosh Souriya Ray
Dwando Suman Ghosh Sudipta
Mama Bhagne Anup Sengupta Payel
2010 Laptop Kaushik Ganguly Shubhaa
Abohomaan Rituparno Ghosh Shikha Sarkar/ Srimati Sarkar
2011 Iti Mrinalini Aparna Sen Hiya Majumdar
2012 Teen Kanya Agnidev Chatterjee Nancy
2013 Anya Na Parthasarathi Joardar Ananya
2013 Anwar Ka Ajab Kissa Buddhadev Dasgupta Malini
2013 Meghe Dhaka Tara Kamaleshwar Mukherjee Durga
2014 Jodi Love Dile Na Prane Abhijit Guha & Sudeshna Roy Paromita
2014 Jaatishwar Srijit Mukherji Joggesshori
2015 Jogajog Sekhar Das Shyamasundari
2017 Tope Buddhadeb Dasgupta Rekha (King's wife)
2019 Bhalo Maye Kharap Maye Tamal DasguptaRiya
2021 72 Ghanta Atanu Ghosh Sumedha
2025 Shotyi Bole Shotyi Kichhu Nei Srijit Mukherji Anonymous
Putul Nacher Itikatha Suman Mukhopadhyay Sen Didi
TBAAnnapurna AnonymousAnnapurna

Web series

Other works

Soap operas

Telefilms

Short films

Audio drama

No Solution (2019)

Reality shows

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Press Information Bureau Photo Gallery". pib.gov.in. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  2. ↑ "Ananya Chatterjee ends four year marriage with husband Raj". The Times of India. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
  3. ↑ "'Actors' moods are bound to shift like tectonic plates: Ananya Chatterjee". Archived from the original on 29 July 2021. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
  4. ↑ Prithvijit Mitra (16 September 2010). "Bengal shines at National Awards, 4 from city". The Times of India . TNN. Archived from the original on 2 September 2018. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  5. 1 2 "Who is National Award winner Ananya Chatterjee?". News18 India. 16 September 2010. Archived from the original on 28 July 2018. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  6. 1 2 3 Sharmila Maiti (28 June 2004). "Ananya knows the science of acting". The Times of India. TNN. Archived from the original on 14 August 2018. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  7. ↑ "National Award is the first big award of my life: Ananya". Yahoo! News. Indo-Asian News Service. 15 September 2010. Archived from the original on 28 July 2018. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  8. ↑ "Reviews: Probhu Nashto Hoye Jai". Screen. 21 December 2007.[ dead link ]
  9. ↑ Priyanka Dasgupta (25 July 2009). "Movie Review: Dwando". The Times of India. TNN. Archived from the original on 3 November 2012. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  10. ↑ "Moview Review: Mama Bhagne". The Times of India. TNN. 18 May 2016. Archived from the original on 3 November 2012. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  11. ↑ "Rituparno Ghosh's 'Abohomaan' is brilliant". News18 India. 28 March 2010. Archived from the original on 28 July 2018. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  12. ↑ Kushali Nag (16 June 2012). "Ritwik Ghatak". The Telegraph . Calcutta, India. Archived from the original on 20 June 2012. Retrieved 2 November 2012.
  13. 1 2 "Ananya's happy to be herself". The Telegraph. Calcutta, India. 11 April 2012. Archived from the original on 13 April 2014. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
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