Seema Biswas

Seema Biswas

Born: January 14, 1965
in Nalbari, Assam, India
Seema Biswas is an Indian actress who works in Hindi and Bengali films and the theatre. She came to prominence with the role of Phoolan Devi in Shekhar Kapur's 1995 film Bandit Queen, for which she won the National Film Award for Best Actress.

Movies for Seema Biswas...

Sarfira
Title: Sarfira
Released: June 12, 2024
Type: Movie
A young man from a remote village dreams of launching his own airline service. However, he must overcome several obstacles and challenges in order to be successful in his quest.
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Political War
Title: Political War
Character: Sunita Chatterjee
Released: February 23, 2024
Type: Movie
Set against the backdrop of an election, corrupt politicians stir up religious conflicts in this Hindi language drama.
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Title: Kaalkoot
Character: Ravi's Mother
Released: July 27, 2023
Type: TV
Follows the life of Ravishankar Tripathi, a tenacious and dedicated police officer who finds himself at the forefront of a challenging acid attack case.
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Title: Human
Released: January 14, 2022
Type: TV
In the race to make the next money-spinning drug, saving lives takes a backseat and people become less than human.
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Atrangi Re
Title: Atrangi Re
Character: Dulhayen
Released: December 24, 2021
Type: Movie
Runaway Rinku gets forcefully married to already engaged Vishu. Both don't want this marriage and make a deal to go on their separate ways. The equation gets weirder when Rinku's lover Sajjad shows up and Vishu starts developing feelings for her.
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Funny Boy
Title: Funny Boy
Released: November 27, 2020
Type: Movie
A student must navigate issues of sexuality, identity and family amid Sri Lanka's social turmoil of the 1970s and 1980s.
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Title: Dadi Amma.. Dadi Amma Maan Jaao!
Character: Urmila Pradhan
Released: January 27, 2020
Type: TV
Based on a story of 2 sisters who are raised by their grandparents.
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Abode
Title: Abode
Released: May 11, 2019
Type: Movie
A 70-year-old widowed woman on the verge of being sent to an old age home makes a decision that shocks her family.
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Darkness Visible
Title: Darkness Visible
Character: Rakhee
Released: February 8, 2019
Type: Movie
London-raised Ronnie returns to his home in India to discover his mother Suleka has died in mysterious circumstances. As he uncovers a series of similar past murders, Ronnie's own inner-darkness come to light.
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Bhoga Khirikee
Title: Bhoga Khirikee
Released: November 25, 2018
Type: Movie
Bhoga Khidikee is a 2018 Indian Assamese drama film directed by Jahnu Barua. It was the opening film of 2nd Guwahati International Film Festival. The film is based on the real life experiences of a village girl in upper Assam and is set against the socio-political landscape of the state in 2015
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Sameer
Title: Sameer
Character: Mumtaz Khala
Released: September 8, 2017
Type: Movie
After a series of bomb blasts in Hyderabad a special ATS team lead by officer Desai name Yasin Darji as the suspect. Following a tip-off the team reaches a location to arrest Yasin only to end up arresting Sameer, the wrong guy. While the error needs to be fixed, the higher authorities decide to bargain with Sameer for his freedom, sending him as a mole. Sameer turns a mole to stop Yasin Darji before he kills more innocent people. A chase begins. Will they manage to stop Yasin, or will Yasin trump?
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Half Girlfriend
Title: Half Girlfriend
Character: Madhav's Mother
Released: May 18, 2017
Type: Movie
A boy meets a girl named Riya and falls in love. After struggling to convince her to be his girlfriend, she half-heartedly agrees to be his `half-girlfriend'.
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Freaky Ali
Title: Freaky Ali
Character: Sulbha
Released: September 9, 2016
Type: Movie
A debt collector becomes a major sensation when he takes on the rich man's sport of golfing.
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Twelve Months
Title: Twelve Months
Character: Shewantamai
Released: June 17, 2016
Type: Movie
Baromas is a feature film in Hindi based on the Sahitya Academy award winning Marathi novel of the same name by Sadanand Deshmukh and directed by FTII-educated Dheeraj Meshram. The movie addresses the plight of dry land farmers and the educated unemployed in rural India.
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Project Marathwada
Title: Project Marathwada
Character: Saku
Released: June 3, 2016
Type: Movie
The son of a poor farmer, Tukaram, commits suicide, which leaves the family shattered. When his pleas fall on deaf ears, he comes to Mumbai in the hope of getting justice and help from the government.
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A Yellow Bird
Title: A Yellow Bird
Released: May 18, 2016
Type: Movie
It is an unwelcome homecoming for Siva, a Singaporean-Indian ex-convict, haunted by a tragedy in his past. Released after eight years behind bars and dejected by his mother’s coldness, he leaves home in search of his ex-wife and daughter. His old friend denies any knowledge of their whereabouts and instead leads him back into crime. Finding him sheltering in ‘void decks’ (the open public access corridors found beneath government-built residential housing in Singapore), the police force him to meet with a social worker; a woman also dealing with her own fears.
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Sold
Title: Sold
Character: Amma
Released: April 1, 2016
Type: Movie
Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal. When the Himalayan monsoons wash away all that remains of the family's crops, Lakshmi's father says she must leave home and take a job to support her family. He introduces her to a glamorous stranger who tells her she will find her a job as a maid in the city. Glad to be able to help, Lakshmi journeys to India and arrives at "Happiness House" full of hope. But she soon learns the unthinkable truth: she has been sold into prostitution...
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The River of Fables
Title: The River of Fables
Character: Dhoneshwari
Released: October 10, 2015
Type: Movie
Four folk tales from Assam re-imagined as a narrative about four mothers, each facing demons of her own.
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Title: MahaKumbh: Ek Rahasaya, Ek Kahani
Character: MaiMui
Released: December 15, 2014
Type: TV
Once in every 144 years Mahakumb Amrit makes an appearance. To guard it, 7 saviors are born and have supernatural powers.
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Chaarfutiya Chhokare
Title: Chaarfutiya Chhokare
Character: Janki
Released: September 26, 2014
Type: Movie
Neha comes to a small village in Bihar, India to construct a school building, for her NGO. She meets the principal to discuss the plans. While leaving from there Neha is shocked to know that the three boys who guided her to the school building are hardcore criminals and have been involved in several murders. Faces of all three in their adolescence, get etched in Neha's mind. With the news of the Rupees twenty million fund coming to the village spreads, politics of greed germinates. Paras, a contractor, lure the five school trust members and promises them to redo their houses if they help him construct the school. The trustee members agree but before they can proceed, Lakhan who has a strong foothold over the village hires the three boys to kill Paras. They kill Paras and the tender goes to Lakhan. Neha meets Janki, mother of one of the boys and is shocked to know about the circumstances that led the three boys to crimes.
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Manjunath
Title: Manjunath
Character: Manju's Mother
Released: May 9, 2014
Type: Movie
Shanmugam Manjunath, an IIM student, who was killed for his stand against corruption and fuel adulteration.
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Balyakalasakhi
Title: Balyakalasakhi
Character: Selvi
Released: February 7, 2014
Type: Movie
Born to rich parents, Majeed falls in love with his not-so-affluent neighbor Suhra. After her father's death, when Suhra struggles to make both ends meet, Majeed pleads with his father to sponsor her education. Refused, he wanders off to distant lands.
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Midnight's Children
Title: Midnight's Children
Character: Mary Pereira
Released: August 31, 2012
Type: Movie
The story of a pair of children born within moments of India gaining independence from England, growing up in the country that is nothing like their parent's generation. A Canadian-British film adaptation of Salman Rushdie's novel of the same name.
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Patang
Title: Patang
Released: June 15, 2012
Type: Movie
In the old city of Ahmedabad, amid India's largest kite festival, a family duels, spins and soars like the countless kites in the skies above.
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Queens! Destiny of Dance
Title: Queens! Destiny of Dance
Released: April 28, 2011
Type: Movie
Guru Amma presides over a community of hijras (male to female transgenders) inside a huge palace, with love and severity in equal measure. The apple of her eye is the talented Mukta who is the best dancer among them and also the potential next leader of the community. Mukta adores Guru Amma with all her heart, to the point of worshipping her. One day, a beautiful young girl turns up at their door without any explanation. Awed by her beauty, Amma takes the mysterious girl under her wings and names her Nandini.
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Yeh Faasley
Title: Yeh Faasley
Released: March 4, 2011
Type: Movie
Arunima (Tena Desai) loves dad (Anupam Kher) who, she believes, loved her mom too. But her love is put to test when she begins to suspect her dad and holds him responsible for her mother’s death. Will the daughter avenge her mother’s death even if it means standing up against her father?
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Red Alert: The War Within
Title: Red Alert: The War Within
Character: Saralaka
Released: July 9, 2010
Type: Movie
While delivering food in a forest area in Andhra Pradesh, impoverished Narasimha is held against his will by a band of Naxalites led by Velu, and forced to join them. He is anxious to collect his dues and return home to his wife, Uma; daughter, Chinna; and son, Mohan, but Velu keeps on putting it off. Narasimha gets to know and sympathize with members of this band, and befriends Lakshmi, who was gang-raped by several policemen. He is then asked to prove his loyalty by killing an informant/plainclothes police inspector - which he does - and even accompanies the band on an assault on a school, resulting in the death of some children. Traumatized after this incident, he decides to flee - and it is this decision that will not only estrange him from his family but also force him to be on the run from the band as well as the police.
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City of Gold
Title: City of Gold
Character: Lakshmi G. Dhuri / Aai
Released: April 23, 2010
Type: Movie
Today, there is hardly anyone who hasn't visited the swanky shopping malls, nightclubs, lounge bars, clubs and other such lifestyle destinations that sprung up across the centre of Mumbai. However, very few know that buried deep below these glittering edifices to consumerism lies the dark, dirty and painful reality of many thousands of mill workers who once worked the cotton mills in this very same area. Rising and toiling to the wail of the mill sirens each and every day, seven days a week, these workers embodied the true unbridled zeal and unflagging spirit of the city and played a pivotal role in the evolution of Mumbai as the modern day business capital of India. And then it suddenly was as if they never existed. Following the mill workers strike in the mid-80s, these mills began closing down rapidly and the mill-workers mysteriously disappeared...
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Cooking With Stella
Title: Cooking With Stella
Character: Stella Elizabeth Matthews
Released: March 19, 2010
Type: Movie
Inside the Canadian diplomatic compound in New Delhi, a mischievous cook affects the lives of her employers and fellow staff.
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Striker
Title: Striker
Character: Surya's Mother
Released: February 5, 2010
Type: Movie
Amidst strictly enforced curfew by Bombay Police during December 1992 following Hindu-Muslim riots, Suryakant - one of four siblings from Malad's Malvani slums, heads home.
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Dujone
Title: Dujone
Released: September 18, 2009
Type: Movie
Dujone has the college-going Meghna (Srabanti) and Akash (Dev) falling for each other. But with Meghna's dad being in the fish business as opposed to Dev's industrialist dad, objections are an obvious progression. Things get murkier and gory what with Akash's dad keeping him caged in Siliguri and Meghna's against-romance pishi (Seema) keeping a hawk's eye on her every move. And just when you thought you've seen the best of De's muscle flexing and Srabanti's desperation to meet Akash, in comes a contract killer (Arijit) employed by Akash's dad to finish off Meghna. As all action stories should end, Dujone too reaches a fitting finale with Meghna-Akash's love triumphing over all odds.
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Yeh Mera India
Title: Yeh Mera India
Character: Sharada Bai
Released: August 28, 2009
Type: Movie
Every night we go home & turn on the news,to find headlines full of atrocities & we wonder how this world keeps moving in spite of so much multi-layered bias which is the root cause of all this. YMI is an attempt to explore the truth behind these headlines. These stories deal with racial,communal,caste,gender,lingual & immigrant bias that plaque the today's society and the outcome... Startling!!!!
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Zor Lagaa Ke... Haiya!
Title: Zor Lagaa Ke... Haiya!
Character: Ram's Mom
Released: June 12, 2009
Type: Movie
Children build a tree-house to spy on a beggar, than seek his help against a builder.
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Aasma: The Sky Is the Limit
Title: Aasma: The Sky Is the Limit
Character: Dr. Vandana
Released: January 23, 2009
Type: Movie
Aasma is a story about lives of six friends, set out on a mission : a mission to touch the sky with their brilliance, talent and sheer dedication. The success story of a theatre group that embodies the love and togetherness amongst these friends. It’s a story of people who have faith in spite of the agonies and tribulations that life presents to each of them.
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Shaurya
Title: Shaurya
Character: Mrs. Khan
Released: April 4, 2008
Type: Movie
Maj. Siddhant Chaudhary, an Indian Army lawyer, attempts to defend Capt. Javed Khan who is accused of killing a decorated officer. The problem is that Khan does not wish to be defended and freely admits to his crime.
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Amal
Title: Amal
Character: Advocate Sapna Agarwal
Released: September 13, 2007
Type: Movie
Autorickshaw driver Amal is content with the small, but vital, role he serves - driving customers around New Delhi as quickly and safely as possible. But his sense of duty is tested by an eccentric, aging billionaire, who, moved by Amal's humility, bequeaths him his entire estate before passing away. With only one month to discover and claim the inheritance, Amal's struggles with duty and wealth are threatened by all those around him - from a young injured beggar girl and a lovely store merchant, to the danger of the old man's upper-caste friends and siblings, all seeking to claim their share of the riches.
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Risk
Title: Risk
Character: Devki Wardhan
Released: January 18, 2007
Type: Movie
"Ek crore meh laitha hai RISK!". Risk! is a movie about a police inspector named Suryakanth who vows to clean up the Mumbai underworld. The police have been trying for 11 years to arrest the biggest don of the underworld, Khalid Bin Jamal. But Khalid isn't in Mumbai. He is living in Bangkok, free from the Mumbai police. Suryakanth starts killing Khalid's men in Mumbai. This alarms Khalid and he entraps Suryakanth in a bad scheme. How much risk is Suryakanth willing to take in order to catch Khalid? Watch Risk! and find out.
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Shoonya
Title: Shoonya
Character: Pradhan
Released: November 20, 2006
Type: Movie
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Vivah
Title: Vivah
Character: Rama Mishra
Released: November 10, 2006
Type: Movie
Poonam, a traditionally brought-up young woman, is to marry Prem, a groom chosen by her uncle. Poonam and Prem's faith and love are to be tested however, when an accident occurs and Poonam might be scarred for life.
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Zindaggi Rocks
Title: Zindaggi Rocks
Character: DCP Gazala Qadri
Released: October 6, 2006
Type: Movie
Dr. Suraj Rihan meets Kriya, a popular singer in his hospital. While he is a quiet, responsible man, she is loud, kiddish and a little crazy. Kriya invites Suraj to meet her family, which includes her mother, who is very strict and her mother's twin sister, who is fun and giggly. Kriya has an adopted son, who is very mature for his age. Kriya and Suraj fall in love with each other and their new feelings are tested by a crisis that enters both their lives. Kriya's son is in a critical state as he has a hole in his heart and they are unable to find a donor till the date of the operation. This makes Kriya commit a medicine induced suicide and her heart is then used to save her son.
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Thalaimagan
Title: Thalaimagan
Character: Alangaram
Released: September 1, 2006
Type: Movie
Thaimagan is a story of an investigative journalist Dheeran (Sarathkumar) who is intent on exposing corrupt minister Shanmugavadivelu (Mukesh Tiwari) and his stooge, the state director general of police (DGP) Alangaram (Seema Biswas).The story revolves around a bottled water plant in a village sanctioned by the minister for a quid pro quo. Dheeran is against the project as it would deplete the ground water resources and warns the people and government about its dangers. The minister sends his goons to silence the newspaper owner (Vijayakumar) permanently. But the...
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Katputtli
Title: Katputtli
Released: August 18, 2006
Type: Movie
Lisa's dress is soaked in blood and her coat is loaded with money but she can't remember who she is. Her husband, Arjun, a famous surgeon, tries his best to help her recollect things.
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Water
Title: Water
Character: Shakuntala
Released: September 8, 2005
Type: Movie
The year is 1938, and Mahatma Gandhi's groundbreaking philosophies are sweeping across India, but 8-year-old Chuyia, newly widowed, must go to live with other outcast widows on an ashram. Her presence transforms the ashram as she befriends two of her compatriots.
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Maa Where Are You...
Title: Maa Where Are You...
Character: Yashoda
Released: April 8, 2005
Type: Movie
Abandoned in an orphanage, subsequently adopted by wealthy Mr. Mohanto and Gayetri, Gopal Mohanto lives a wealthy lifestyle in Guwahati. His foster mother is often cruel to him, and he runs away to Bombay, where he meets some youth in his age group and starts earning money delivering newspapers under the supervision of Badru. One day he finds some money belonging to Bollywood actress, Shalini, and returns it to her.
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Chrysalis
Title: Chrysalis
Character: Sister Agatha
Released: December 4, 2004
Type: Movie
A Sikh woman and her son take refuge in a convent during the 1984 anti-Sikh pogroms
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Dobara
Title: Dobara
Released: September 24, 2004
Type: Movie
Ranbir (Jackie Shroff) is a successful writer, and happily married to Anjali (Mahima Chaudhry). But when his schizophrenic ex (Raveena Tandon) shows up out of the blue, tells him he has a son living in Goa, and hints that Anjali is cheating on him, his happy life is turned upside down.
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Hanan: An Assault on Faith
Title: Hanan: An Assault on Faith
Released: June 29, 2004
Type: Movie
The Indian belief that birth, death and marriage are decided in the heaven is challenged one night in Rampur, when a woman abused by her husband curses the Goddess Bhagwati for not creating a true husband and commits suicide in Goddess's divine river...
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Ek Hasina Thi
Title: Ek Hasina Thi
Character: ACP Malti Vaidya
Released: January 16, 2004
Type: Movie
A woman falls for a charming and mysterious businessman. The whirlwind romance turns sour when she is framed for his underworld crimes. Now, finally out of prison she is ready for sweet revenge.
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Iyarkai
Title: Iyarkai
Character: Mercy
Released: November 20, 2003
Type: Movie
Marudhu, a sailor, falls in love with Nancy, a fruit vendor. However, she waits for the captain who had promised that he would return and marry her.
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Pinjar
Title: Pinjar
Character: Mad woman
Released: October 22, 2003
Type: Movie
In the days leading up to Partition, a Hindu woman is abducted by a Muslim man. Soon, she finds herself not only forced into marriage, but living in a new country as the borders between India and Pakistan are drawn
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Boom
Title: Boom
Character: Bharti
Released: September 19, 2003
Type: Movie
The fashion world meets the underworld in BOOM, written and directed by Kaizad Gustad and produced by Ayesha Shroff under the banner of Quest Films
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Bhoot
Title: Bhoot
Character: Bai
Released: May 30, 2003
Type: Movie
A Mumbai businessman and his wife are looking for a new flat. Apartment 1201 has been vacant since its previous occupant jumped to her death. Undeterred, the couple still decides to move in, but before long, the wife starts to have visions.
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The Wound
Title: The Wound
Character: Tanya
Released: December 27, 2002
Type: Movie
Jogi Thakur (Govind Namdev) is the power behind the ruling party ministers in Bombay City, and not only rules over the underworld, but also over the law-makers; the Home Minister (Anant Jog); the Police Commissioner (Virendra Saxena), and police officers all over the city. The Police of the City are on the look out for an escaped convict Tanya (Seema Biswas). The police are assisted by Sarja (Mita Vasisht), who is the Warden of the prison that Tanya broke out from. Tanya has confessed to killing her husband, Jayant (Pankay Berry). At every encounter with Tanya, in prison or out, Sarja severely and mercilessly beats up Tanya to a pulp, but Tanya keeps eluding the law, and with the help of Journalist Pooja (Gulrez), her friends Rahul (Rahul Bhatt) and Vicky (Deepak Tijori) hopes to unravel the mystery behind the death of her husband Jayant (Pankaj Berry); find her missing sister-in-law Guddi (Gayatri); and seek justice.
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Deewangee
Title: Deewangee
Character: Psychiatrist
Released: October 25, 2002
Type: Movie
Hired by a singer to defend her friend, who has been accused of murder, a formidable lawyer learns that the man he represents may not be innocent.
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Company
Title: Company
Character: Ranibai
Released: April 15, 2002
Type: Movie
Mallik is a henchman of Aslam Bhai, a Mumbai underworld kingpin. He inducts local hothead Chandu into the gang, and the two of them soon form a formidable faction within the gang, eventually displacing Aslam. As the empire grows, however, the two of them start drifting apart.
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Bibhatsa
Title: Bibhatsa
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
The Third Film from Director Jayaraj's 'Navarasa' Series.
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Shantham
Title: Shantham
Released: February 27, 2001
Type: Movie
Velayudhan is a young man living in a place torn apart by civil strife. In the midst of a raging street war, he kills his best friend. Velayudhan feels guilty and disturbed. The political enemies also plot revenge on Velayudhan.
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Scribbles on Akka
Title: Scribbles on Akka
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
A film on feminine legacy of rebellion, language and transgressions. Using the composition of Mahadevi Akka, a 13th century saint-poet, the film explores the multiplicity of contemporary women and their own points of transgressions.
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Samar
Title: Samar
Released: February 27, 1999
Type: Movie
In a small village in Madhya Pradesh, two different communities fight over a water pump installation. When a member of one of the communities, Nathu (Kishore Kadam) decides to protest against a decision he feels is unjust, he angers the local land owner, who decides to impose economic sanctions on the community in an effort to starve them out of the village. When Nathu's house is burned down in mysterious circumstances, Nathu seeks the comfort of a temple, and prays for a solution. Instead he finds himself abused and beaten by the land owner for breaking a rule that bans members of Nathu's community from entering the temple. It later emerges that the situation in the area is being used as a plot for a film made in Bombay, however characters featured in the film are misrepresented, which leads to tension on the set and eventually violence spills.
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Bindhaast
Title: Bindhaast
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
Mayu and Vaiju decide to play a prank on their aunt.
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Khamoshi: The Musical
Title: Khamoshi: The Musical
Character: Flavy
Released: August 9, 1996
Type: Movie
The daughter of deaf-mute parents seeks their understanding when she discovers a love for music.
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Bandit Queen
Title: Bandit Queen
Character: Phoolan Devi
Released: February 17, 1995
Type: Movie
Born a lower-caste girl in rural India's patriarchal society, "married" at 11, repeatedly raped and brutalized, Phooland Devi finds freedom only as an avenging warrior, the eponymous Bandit Queen. Devi becomes a kind a bloody Robin Hood; this extraordinary biographical film offers both a vivid portrait of a driven woman and a savage critique of the society that made her.
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A PENDING FILE
Title: A PENDING FILE
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
"Discover the extraordinary life of Ranjit Kapoor in 'A Pending File,' a documentary celebrating his immense contributions to Indian theater and cinema. From his humble origins to becoming a visionary artist, this film explores Kapoor's struggles, successes, and the revolutionary changes he brought to storytelling. Through interviews and captivating visuals, experience the legacy of this maestro whose artistry shaped the very fabric of Indian culture. 'A Pending File' is a heartfelt tribute honoring Kapoor's profound impact on the world of entertainment."