Nandita Das

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Nandita Das
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Born (1969-11-07) 7 November 1969 (age 55)
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Occupation
  • Actor, Director, Writer, Producer and Social Advocate
Years active1989–present
Spouses
Soumya Sen
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(m. 2002;div. 2007)​
Subodh Maskara
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(m. 2010;sep. 2017)​
Children1
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 appeared in the films 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 travelled 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] [3] Her first book, '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. Her third directorial venture, Zwigato, explores the life of a food delivery rider and his family. After premiering at various festivals, it was released in India and overseas on 17th March 2023.

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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. [4] She was commended for her "contribution towards the development of Indo-French cooperation in the field of cinema." [5] In 2009, France released a stamp featuring Das, from artist Titouan Lamazou's project "Women of the World." [6] [7]

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." [8] [9] [10] [11] Her fellow inductees were Anna Fendi, Heidi Klum, and Madam Chen Zhili. [12]

Early life and education

Das' father is the artist Jatin Das, and her mother is Varsha Das, a writer. She was born in Mumbai and grew up mostly in Delhi in an Odia family, [13] where she attended the Sardar Patel Vidyalaya school. [14] She received bachelor's degree in Geography from Miranda House and Master of Social Work from the Delhi School of Social Work, both affiliated with the University of Delhi. [15]

Das was a Yale World Fellow in 2014. [16] She was one of 16 emerging global leaders chosen from nearly 4000 applicants.

She has also taught at the Rishi Valley School. [17]

Career

Acting

Das has acted in over 40 feature films with directors such as Mrinal Sen, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Shyam Benegal, Deepa Mehta, and Mani Ratnam. She began her acting career with the street theatre group Jana Natya Manch. She is best known for her performances in director Deepa Mehta films Fire (1996) and Earth (1998; alongside Aamir Khan), Bawander (directed by Jagmohan Mundhra), and Naalu Pennungal (directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan ). She has also acted in the movie BeforetheRains, an Indian-British period drama film directed by Santosh Sivan. She has acted in films in ten different languages: English, Hindi, Bengali, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Marathi, Odia, and Kannada. The Tamil actor Sukanya provided Das' speaking voice in the Tamil classic Kannathil Muthamittal .

Das co-wrote, directed and acted in a play called Between the Lines (2014).[ citation needed ] She has also acted in Khamosh! Adalat jaari hai (2017), a Cineplay production written by Vijay Tendulkar.[ citation needed ]

Direction

In 2008, she directed her first film, Firaaq . [18] The film is a work of fiction "based on a thousand true stories" and is set a month after the 2002 Gujarat riots in India. 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. Das said that the film "gave a voice to so much that remains silent".[ citation needed ] In 2018, Nandita directed Manto [19] which is based on the life and works of Saadat Hasan Manto, the Urdu writer of the 1940's. It features Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Rasika Dugal in the lead roles. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival [20] and then at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2018. [21] Das produced and directed a PSA music video, India's Got Colour in 2019. [2] Her third directorial venture Zwigato explores the life of a food delivery rider and his family, starring Kapil Sharma and Shahana Goswami in the lead roles. It is also produced by her company Nandita Das Initiatives, in collaboration with Applause Entertainment . Zwigato was released in India in 2023 and is streaming on Amazon Prime Video. The film has garnered much critical acclaim from critics and audiences.

Writing

Nandita Das’s writing work has evolved organically. She has written articles for various publications and used to write a monthly column for The Week, called the Last Word. In 2019, Das wrote Manto and I, a hardbound book that chronicles her 6 year long journey of making the film, Manto. It is a book of images and writings that explores the creative process from the inception of the idea to finally releasing the film. In addition, Das edited Jatin Das: A Retrospective 1963-2023, a book that was launched during the Retrospective show of her artist father at the National Gallery of Modern Art. The book traces his six-decade career, featuring his artwork, writings, and essays by art scholars and friends.

Through her writings, Nandita Das has blended her personal insights with artistic expressions, creating compelling narratives that extend beyond her cinematic work.

Voice Narration

Das narrated the children's audiobook series Under the Banyan, [22] and Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography by Charkha Audiobooks, The Story of My Experiments with Truth . [23] She was also a voice actor in the children's television series Wonder Pets , as the Bengal Tiger in the episode Save the Bengal Tiger (2007).[ citation needed ]

She also sang the song Ramleela for the movie Aks and Jagya Sarsi for the movie Bawandar.

Nandita Das Initiatives

Nandita Das Initiatives LLP (NDI) was set up in 2016 by Nandita Das to create a platform for art and cinema that has a conscience. Authentically local in their context and universal in their resonance. NDI’s first venture, Manto, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival . In 2019, NDI produced a music video called India’s Got Colour to celebrate diversity in skin tones and call out colourism. In 2020, during the pandemic, NDI made a short film, Listen to Her , that dealt with the rise in domestic violence and the workload that women suffered. It was supported by UNESCO and other UN bodies. The company produced her third feature film, Zwigato , which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2022.

Personal life

In 2002, Das married Saumya Sen.[ citation needed ] The couple began Leapfrog, a media organisation geared towards making socially conscious ad films. [24] The couple divorced in 2007. [25] [ failed verification ] After dating Subodh Maskara, a Mumbai industrialist, for a couple of months, she married him on 2 January 2010 and moved to Mumbai. [26] [27] Das and Maskara have a son named Vihaan. [28] In January 2017, the couple announced that they have parted ways. [29]

Nandita Das is an atheist. [30] "If I align with anything it would probably be Buddhism," she said. [31]

Activism

Das has master's degree in Social Work from the University of Delhi. She has worked for children's rights, HIV/AIDS awareness, to end violence against women, and she has spoken up in support of the JNU protests [ which? ] and MeToo movement on her official X (formerly known as Twitter). [32] [ better source needed ] In 2009, Das was appointed Chairperson of the Children's Film Society of India. [33] In 2012, she was the guest of honor at the iVolunteer Awards, held in Mumbai. [34] Das also donated to the launch of the investigative journalism magazine Tehelka , founded by Tarun Tejpal. [35] In 2013, she participated in the Women of India Leadership Summit alongside other artists and women's activists. [36]

India's Got Colour (Dark is Beautiful) campaign

In 2013, Das became the face of the "Dark is Beautiful" campaign. Launched by Women of Worth in 2009, the campaign aims to draw attention to the effects of discrimination based on skin color in India. The campaign urges women and men to celebrate the beauty and diversity of all skin tones, using slogans such as "Stay UNfair, Stay Beautiful." [37] Das said in 2014: In the [Indian film] industry 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. [38] In 2019, the Campaign was reinvented as India’s Got Colour. Along with Mahesh Mathai, Nandita Das has produced and co-directed a two-minute PSA for the campaign. The music video features several eminent artists from the Indian Film Industry. [39]

Speaking engagements

Das has been a featured speaker at various platforms in India and abroad, including at MIT (in 2007, after a screening of Fire),[ citation needed ] and at Tufts University (in 2014, on gender in society and cinema). [40] [41]

In 2016, she gave a TEDx talk at TEDxWalledCity on "The Biggest Hypocrisy of Our Times: Our Attitude to Poverty." [42] In 2011, she spoke at TEDxNarimanPoint, on "Transformation in Education". [43]

In 2019, she gave a Tedx talk at TEDxShivNadarUniversity about A Mother's Journey With Anger.

Accolades

In August 2018 Power Brands awarded Nandita Das the Bharatiya Manavata Vikas Puraskar for being a polymath with purpose, advocating issues of communal harmony, peace and social justice, especially for women, children and the marginalized "others" through various platforms, for her expressions of courage and compassion on celluloid and her steadfast faith in the power of cinema effecting social change for a better world. [44] [45]

For acting

List of film acting awards and nominations received by Nandita Das
YearAwardFilmCategoryResult
2000 45th Filmfare Awards 1947 Earth Best DebutWon
2001Santa Monica Film FestivalBawanderBest ActressWon
2002Cairo International Film FestivalAmaar BhuvanWon
Tamil Nadu State Film Awards Kannathil Muthamittal Special PrizeWon
2006 Nandi Awards of 2006 Kamli Best Actress Won
2007Madrid International Film FestivalMaati Maay (A Grave-keeper's Tale)Best ActressWon
2013 8th Lux Style Awards Ramchand Pakistani Best Film ActressNominated
60th Filmfare Awards South Neerparavai Best Supporting Actress – Tamil Nominated
2024 68th Filmfare Awards South Virata Parvam Best Supporting Actress – Telugu Won

For directing

List of film directing awards and nominations received by Nandita Das
YearAwardFilmCategoryStatusRef.
2008 Asian Festival of First Films Firaaq Best FilmWon [46]
Best Screenplay
Foreign Correspondents Association Purple Orchid Award for Best Film
2009Kara Film FestivalBest FilmWon
International Film Festival of KeralaSpecial Jury AwardWon
Thessaloniki International Film FestivalSpecial Prize (Everyday Life: Transcendence or Reconciliation Award)Won
Golden AlexanderNominated
2010Filmfare AwardsSpecial AwardWon
2018Cannes Film Festival Manto Un Certain Regard AwardNominated
Toronto International Film FestivalPeople's Choice AwardNominated
Asia Pacific Screen AwardFIAPF (Films in the Asia Pacific region)Won
2019 Filmfare Awards Best Film (Critics) Nominated
Best Screenplay Nominated
Best Dialogue Nominated

Filmography

Key
†Denotes films that have not yet been released

Actor

Films & Web Series

List of film acting credits
YearTitleRoleLanguage(s)Notes
1987Bangle BoxHindiTelefilm
1989 Parinati Hindi
1994Ek Thi GoonjaGoonjaHindi
1996 Fire SitaEnglish
1998 1947 Earth Shanta, the Ayah Hindi Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut
Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa Nandini MitraHindi
Janmadinam Sarasu Malayalam
1999 Biswaprakash Anjali Odia
Deveeri Deveeri (Akka) Kannada
Rockford Lily VegasEnglish
2000 Punaradhivasam ShaliniMalayalam
Hari-Bhari AfsanaHindi
Saanjh Hindi Short film
Bawandar SanwariHindi,
Rajasthani,
English		Best Actress at Santa Monica Film Festival
2001 Aks Supriya VermaHindi
Daughters of this CenturyCharuHindi
Kannaki KannakiMalayalam
2002 Aamaar Bhuvan Sakina Bengali Best Actress at Cairo Film Festival
Zee Cine Award for Best Actor – Female
Pitaah ParoHindi
Azhagi Dhanalakshmi Tamil Nominated-Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Tamil
Kannathil Muthamittal ShyamaTamil Tamil Nadu State Film Award Special Prize
Lal Salaam Rupi(alias Chandrakka)Hindi
2003 Ek Alag Mausam Aparna VermaHindi
Bas Yun Hi VedaHindi
Supari Mamta SikriHindi
Shubho Mahurat Mallika SenBengali
Kagaar: Life on the Edge AditiHindi
Ek Din 24 Ghante Sameera DuttaHindi
2004 Vishwa Thulasi SitaTamil
Ghoom Tana UrduMusic Video
2005 Fleeting Beauty Indian womanEnglish
SaayeyMayaUrdu, EnglishShort Film
2006 Maati Maay Chandi Marathi Madrid International Film Festival (2007), Best Actress
Podokkhep MeghaBengali
Provoked Radha DalalEnglish
Kamli Kamli Telugu Nandi Award for Best Actress
Bits & PiecesKusumHindiUnreleased
2007 Before the Rains SajaniEnglish,
Malayalam
Naalu Pennungal KamakshiMalayalam
A Drop of LifeMira BenHindi, GujaratiShort film
2008 Ramchand Pakistani ChampaUrduPakistani film
2010 I Am AfiaHindi
2012 Neerparavai Older EstherTamilNominated—SIIMA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role – Tamil
Nominated—Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress – Tamil
2013 Oonga HemlaHindi,
Odia
2014 Rastres de Sàndal Mina KuminarEnglish,
Catalan
2018DhaadMonghi Gujarati [47] shot in 2001
2019 Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyun Aata Hai? StellaHindiRemake of classic Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyoon Aata Hai [48]
2020Listen to HerThe womanHindiShort film
2021 Call My Agent: Bollywood HerselfHindi
The Cuber The motherHindi,
English		Short film
2022 Virata Parvam ShakunthalaTelugu Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress – Telugu
2023A Knock on the DoorReenaEnglish, Hindi, Bengali

Theatre & Cineplay

YearTitleRoleLanguageNotes
2024 White Rabbit Red Rabbit EnglishAn unrehearsed play written by Nassim Soleimanpour
2017 Khamosh! Adalat Jaari Hai Leela BenareHindiCineplay
2014 Between the Lines MayaHindi, EnglishCineplay
2013Gates to India SongAnne-Marie StretterEnglishPlay by Marguerite Duras and directed by Eric Vigner
2002The Spirit of Anne FrankAnamikaEnglishAn improvised play directed by Roysten Abel
EquusJillEnglishPlay by Peter Shaffer and directed by Barry John
Heads ya TailsMadhviHindiPlay by Prashant Dalvi and directed by Chandrakanth Kulkurni
MotherThe Christian WomanPlay by Maxim Gorky and directed by M K Raina
Street plays on social issuesVarious charactersHindiPlay by Jana Natya Manch and directed by Safdar Hashmi

Director

List of film directing credits
YearTitleLanguageNotesRef.
1993Imprint in ClayHindi, EnglishDocumentary on the father of Studio Pottery in India, Sardar Gurcharan Singh
2003Rain Water HarvestingPublic Service Ad
Education SpotsPublic Service Ad
2004Beyond Boundaries - Cricket for PeaceHindiDocumentary on Indo-Pak street children initiative
2008 Firaaq Hindi
Urdu
Gujarati		Best Film and Best Screenplay at Asian Festival of First Films
Purple Orchid Award for Best Film at Asian Festival of First Films
Special Jury Award at International Film Festival of Kerala
Special Prize at International Thessaloniki Film Festival
Filmfare Special Award
Nominated—Golden Alexander at International Thessaloniki Film Festival 		[46]
2012Between the LinesHindi, EnglishTheater PlayShe wrote it too
2017In Defence of FreedomHindiShort film
2018 Manto Hindi
Urdu		Premiered at Cannes Film Festival 2018
Toronto International Film Festival 2018
Busan International Film Festival 2018
2019India's Got ColourHindiMusic Video
2020Listen to HerHindiShort film
2021 The Cuber Hindi, EnglishShort film
2023 Zwigato HindiWorld premiere at the TIFF 2022
Premiered at Busan International Film Festival
Premiered at International Film Festival of Kerala [49]

Voice Works

YearTitleLanguageNotes
2004 Karadi Tales EnglishAudiobook
2005 The Story of My Experiments with Truth EnglishAudiobook
2008 Wonder Pets!EnglishVoice of Bengal Tiger

Books

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