Tannishtha Chatterjee

Tannishtha Chatterjee

Born: November 23, 1980
in Pune, Maharashtra, India
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 for Tannishtha Chatterjee...

Joram
Title: Joram
Character: Vaano
Released: December 7, 2023
Type: Movie
A father is on the run with his little baby girl to escape the ghosts of his past and the forces that want him dead.
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Yellow Bus
Title: Yellow Bus
Character: Ananda Ishwar
Released: September 10, 2023
Type: Movie
In the sweltering Arabian Gulf heat Ananda’s dreams of a better life than the one she left behind in India are shattered after her child is forgotten on a school bus. Armed with the dead child’s ashes, she stands up against society’s ‘invisible’ caste, demanding accountability and refusing the customary blood money.
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Title: Scoop
Character: Leena Pradhan
Released: June 2, 2023
Type: TV
The shocking murder of a journalist thrusts a leading crime reporter into a nexus of police, media and the Mumbai underworld as she fights for justice.
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Dahini - The Witch
Title: Dahini - The Witch
Character: Kamala
Released: November 21, 2022
Type: Movie
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Rani Rani Rani
Title: Rani Rani Rani
Character: Rani
Released: July 24, 2022
Type: Movie
For Rani, the caretaker at an abandoned factory, in an almost-abandoned Indian village, it's just an ordinary day, trapped in a struggle for survival between a feckless husband on one hand, and his brother and ruthless sister-in-law on the other. But when she happens upon a group of opportunists seeking to prove the efficacy of their mysteriously-acquired device to a potential buyer, her fortunes seem set to change. All they need is a 'volunteer', and for a small sum of cash she's lured into their machine. While she emerges seemingly unscathed, a violent turn of events makes Rani realize that changing the trajectory of her life might just be matter of a second chance, or a third - or maybe just a little more time.
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Title: Modern Love Mumbai
Character: Rayman
Released: May 13, 2022
Type: TV
Explore 6 unique yet universal stories of human connection and love in its varied forms – romantic, platonic, parental, sexual, familial, marital, self-love.
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Title: Cartel
Character: Romila
Released: August 20, 2021
Type: TV
One attack that will change the future of the house of The Angres. Will the first family of the business survive?
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Interdependence Film 2019
Title: Interdependence Film 2019
Character: Megha's lawyer (segment "Megha's Divorce")
Released: October 22, 2019
Type: Movie
Started in 2018, the project – comprised of 11 segments by filmmakers from all around the world – reflects on the intertwined relationship between human society and nature that is aggravated by climate change on multiple scales, hinting at possible solutions.
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Roam Rome Mein
Title: Roam Rome Mein
Released: October 5, 2019
Type: Movie
Raj goes to Rome looking for his missing sister Reena. Through the search he discovers the real Reena, things that he never knew about her. He also meets a few magical characters who make him realize who Raj actually is as well.
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Jhalki
Title: Jhalki
Released: September 27, 2019
Type: Movie
A lyrical story of lost childhood, against the powerful backdrop of child slavery and human trafficking. It is a heart-rending but inspiring story of a nine-year old street-smart girl, Jhalki, in search of her seven-year old brother, Babu, who is suddenly thrown into an inhuman world of child labor with no respite from a terminally gloomy, dark and depressing workplace. Armed with an intimate folk tale of a tireless sparrow, her own ingenious efforts and her charming presence of mind, Jhalki manages her search and eventually free her brother, along with thousands of other enslaved children caught in this insidious practice, affecting over 200 million children worldwide.
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Lihaaf: The Quilt
Title: Lihaaf: The Quilt
Character: Ismat Chugtai
Released: July 19, 2019
Type: Movie
A period drama, the film is based on Ismat Chugtai's most celebrated story "Lihaaf" (published 1942). The film inter weaves the plot of same sex relationship between Begum and her masseuse and the trial that Ismat underwent after being slapped with a case of obscenity on publishing the story. The film raises themes of homosexuality and freedom of speech that our society is grappling with even today.
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Rakkhosh
Title: Rakkhosh
Character: Shoma Sekhri
Released: January 20, 2019
Type: Movie
The movie explores the horrors and fantasies of a patient trapped in a mental asylum.
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Beyond the Clouds
Title: Beyond the Clouds
Character: Chotu's Mom
Released: April 20, 2018
Type: Movie
A hedonistic teenager in Mumbai is busted for dealing drugs and goes to his estranged sister for help, but complications land her in jail.
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Monsoon Shootout
Title: Monsoon Shootout
Character: Rani
Released: December 15, 2017
Type: Movie
A rookie cop joins the crime branch of the Mumbai police department, and on his first assignment is faced with the dilemma of whether he should shoot a murder suspect who is attempting to escape or not.
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Guy in the Sky
Title: Guy in the Sky
Character: Chhaaya
Released: June 13, 2017
Type: Movie
Mehak and Raghav are a picture-perfect urban middle-class couple. But the friction in their relationship begins to unfold over a Facebook profile picture. What causes the tiff is the discovery that Raghav secretly admires the popular political leader who Mehak has quit her job to organize a protest march against. A contemporary and humorous take on the current political climate in our country and the significance that social media has assumed in our lives, "Guy in the Sky", is as bizarre and funny as true.
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Lion
Title: Lion
Character: Noor
Released: November 24, 2016
Type: Movie
A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
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Miles of Sand
Title: Miles of Sand
Character: Durga
Released: October 22, 2016
Type: Movie
A single mother in rural India has to pay a heavy price to repay her debts.
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Rough Book
Title: Rough Book
Character: Santoshi
Released: June 24, 2016
Type: Movie
Rough Book is a hard look at the education system in contemporary India. Though one of the finest systems in the world, the lacunae in the system have created issues. The story is told to us through the eyes of a teacher, Santoshi Kumari, who rallies through a divorce with a corrupt income tax officer to become a teacher of Physics in a school. Her pupils are in the D division - 'D' sarcastically referred to as Duffers by both the students and other teachers. How Santoshi rebels against the system to fight for her students, forms the bulk of the simply told, yet completely thought provoking film. The rebellion of the teacher and her students are internalised to make their point.
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Title: The Kapil Sharma Show
Character: Herself
Released: April 23, 2016
Type: TV
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Feast of Varanasi
Title: Feast of Varanasi
Character: Inspector Rajveer Saxsena
Released: March 11, 2016
Type: Movie
An investigator is dispatched to Varanasi to look into a series of grisly murders.
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Chauranga
Title: Chauranga
Character: Dhaniya
Released: January 8, 2016
Type: Movie
A fourteen year old Dalit (lower caste) boy in rural India is killed for writing a love letter.
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Angry Indian Goddesses
Title: Angry Indian Goddesses
Character: Nargis Nasreen
Released: December 4, 2015
Type: Movie
A photographer invites her closest friends to vacation at her family's home in Goa in celebration of her upcoming marriage.
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Parched
Title: Parched
Character: Rani
Released: November 14, 2015
Type: Movie
In the arid landscape of Rajasthan, four women navigate their way through personal and cultural difficulties.
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unINDIAN
Title: unINDIAN
Character: Meera
Released: October 15, 2015
Type: Movie
Single mum Meera is an Australian of Indian origin. Smart and independent, she has carved out a successful life for herself and her daughter...despite family pressure to find a 'nice Indian match'. Then Meera meets Will, a blonde, blue-eyed Aussie charmer. But falling in love with an Australian is not only scandalous - it's unIndian! Does she do what her family wishes, or follow her heart?
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Title: Comedy Nights Bachao
Character: Self
Released: September 15, 2015
Type: TV
Based on the format of roast comedy, the show features comic crusaders who take a jibe at celebrity guests testing their patience through slapstick humor and make unpleasant jokes about them.
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Island City
Title: Island City
Character: Aarti
Released: September 8, 2015
Type: Movie
A collection of three comic-dramatic stories set in Mumbai. The first is about a diligent office worker who wins the office 'Fun Committee Award', which entitles him to a whole day full of fun. He is most reluctant to leave the safety of his cubicle but he has to. Prescribed fun modules have to be completed and non-compliance is not an option... The second story begins with a domineering head-of-the-family, Anil, who is on life support. Seeking some relief, his family decides to buy a TV, which Anil had banned. Now every night the family plugs into a popular soap whose hero, Purshottam, is a man ideal in every way and they are smitten. Then suddenly, comes the news that Anil is better and may be home soon. Will they have to let Purshottam go?... The third one centers on Aarti whose repetitive existence is slowly making her more and more mechanical and numb. Deep inside ferments a disconnect and unease that she is unable to articulate to anyone.
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Gour Hari Dastaan
Title: Gour Hari Dastaan
Character: Anita
Released: August 14, 2015
Type: Movie
Gour Hari Das, a freedom fighter who works in Khadi Kraft and lives along with his wife & son, lives a content life in his neighborhood. However, one day when his son is unable to secure college admission for lack of a Freedom Fighter's Certificate, he feels the need to establish his identity. In the quest for this piece of paper to prove his authenticity to his son, his neighbors & to the world, he begins a journey that sucks up almost his entire life.
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I Love NY
Title: I Love NY
Character: Riya
Released: July 10, 2015
Type: Movie
Two strangers meet in Manhattan on New Year's Eve, and both of their lives are forever transformed in this romantic Bollywood drama. Even as they try to preserve their current relationships, neither can resist falling head over heels for the other.
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A Prayer for Rain
Title: A Prayer for Rain
Character: Leela
Released: December 5, 2014
Type: Movie
Thirty years on from the 1984 Union Carbide plant malfunction, the consequences of which are tragically ongoing, A Prayer for Rain is the powerful and moving story of the Bhopal tragedy, one of the great corporate and environmental scandals of the last half-century. It dramatises the dependence of the local community on the chemical plant that will eventually cause catastrophe, and the series of oversights that led to an event that stands as a benchmark for corporate irresponsibility in the developing world.
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Sunrise
Title: Sunrise
Character: Leela
Released: October 3, 2014
Type: Movie
Inspector Joshi is a grieving father searching for his daughter Aruna, kidnapped years ago when she was six. In his despair, life converges with a recurring dream in which Joshi pursues a shadowy figure who leads him to 'Paradise', a night-club where teenage girls dance to a leering crowd. He is convinced he will find Aruna there and vows to bring her back to Leela, his broken wife.
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Meena
Title: Meena
Character: Meena Hasina
Released: June 24, 2014
Type: Movie
Meena is a documentary film about sex trafficking in India based on a true story.
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Gulaab Gang
Title: Gulaab Gang
Released: March 7, 2014
Type: Movie
A fearless woman fights social injustice; creating a sanctuary for abused women and battling a crooked politician.
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Siddharth
Title: Siddharth
Released: October 10, 2013
Type: Movie
A chain-wallah from Delhi travels across India in search of his missing son, in the hopes that whoever took him, returns him unharmed.
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Water
Title: Water
Character: Kajri
Released: October 6, 2013
Type: Movie
Jal revolves around a young man named Bakka, who is gifted with a special ability to find water in the desert. With the backdrop of water scarcity, the film tells a complex and intriguing story of love, relationships, enmity, deceit and circumstances that bring about the dark side of human character.
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Anna Karenina
Title: Anna Karenina
Character: Masha
Released: September 6, 2012
Type: Movie
In Imperial Russia, Anna, the wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets the charming cavalry officer Vronsky to whom she is immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.
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Jalpari
Title: Jalpari
Released: August 31, 2012
Type: Movie
Tomboy Shreya coaxes her widower father Dev to take her to their ancestral village in Haryana something he is not too keen about. Eventually she gets her way and along with her dad, her brother Sam and granny, she reaches her destination only to understand why her father had been putting off the trip for years.
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Dekh Indian Circus
Title: Dekh Indian Circus
Character: Kajaro
Released: October 7, 2011
Type: Movie
Kajroo and her family live a tough existence in rural Rajisthan. When a circus sets up in a nearby town, she goes with the children across the desert to see the spectacle.
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Road, Movie
Title: Road, Movie
Character: The Woman
Released: March 5, 2010
Type: Movie
Vishnu has a bleak future before him, he must join his father in the family's oil business and try and boost the sales of the stinking oil in small town India. He sees his chance to escape by offering to transport a ramshackle truck, with a make-shift cinema, to a distant museum that lies across the expansive desert of Kutch. His companions: a chai-wallah chokra, a gypsy girl and a burlesque mechanic.
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Bombay Summer
Title: Bombay Summer
Character: Geetha
Released: September 18, 2009
Type: Movie
Bombay Summer explores the fleeting and delicate friendship between three young people in Mumbai, India. The film follows their journey of discovery, love and loss.
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Barah Aana
Title: Barah Aana
Character: Rani
Released: March 13, 2009
Type: Movie
Barah Aana is a comedy of real life set in today's Mumbai. The story revolves around three unlikely friends: a driver (Naseeruddin Shah), a watchman (Vijay Raaz) and a waiter (Arjun Mathur). The driver is an older man, stoic but dependable. The watchman, in his 30's, is a pushover at work but otherwise mischievous. The waiter is a young, swaggering chap, brimming with ambition. Living together, their different attitudes make for an interesting banter.At some point, misfortune befalls the watchman, and due to a series of chance events, he stumbles into a crime. Striking upon a seemingly low-risk way to make good money, and discovering a new sense of self-confidence, he tries to entice the others to join him in a series of such crimes. Cat and mouse games ensue between the three as personalities change, but events soon spiral out of control, leading them in a direction that none of them had ever wanted to take...
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Brick Lane
Title: Brick Lane
Character: Nazneen Ahmed
Released: November 16, 2007
Type: Movie
The grind of daily life as a Brick Lane Bangladessi as seen through the eyes of Nazneen (Chatterjee), who at 17 enters an arranged marriage with Chanu (Kaushik). Years later, living in east London with her family, she meets a young man Karim (Simpson).
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Calcutta Unabashed
Title: Calcutta Unabashed
Released: June 6, 2006
Type: Movie
A young man negotiates his erotic and thanatotic drives.
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Shadows of Time
Title: Shadows of Time
Character: Masha (Adult)
Released: November 6, 2005
Type: Movie
Ravi and Masha are just children when they were sold into labour by their parents. When they meet, friendship blossoms between them but when the factory manager threatens to sell Masha, possibly into sex slavery, Ravi gives up his hard earned savings to buy her freedom. They agree on a way to find each other once Ravi has earned enough money to buy his freedom but a series of misunderstandings and fear tear them apart. Though they now have their freedom in life, they have to find their way in love.
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Let the Wind Blow
Title: Let the Wind Blow
Character: Mona
Released: January 12, 2004
Type: Movie
At the height of nuclear tensions between India and Pakistan, Arjun and his best friend, Chabia, weigh their options for the future against the reality of life on the streets of Mumbai.
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Monkey Bastard!
Title: Monkey Bastard!
Released: September 12, 2003
Type: Movie
A darkly ironic melodrama of star-crossed lovers Gulshan and Manisha, whose forbidden love yearns to be free from Nana – Manisha’s overbearing lecherous drunk of a husband
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Notes on her
Title: Notes on her
Character: Draupadi
Released: August 11, 2003
Type: Movie
Was the only official entry from India for the Oscar awards at Los Angeles in the shorts section-in 2003 -it competed in the honorary foreign film category. The short film “Notes On Her” inspired by Mahashweta devi's 'DRAUPADI AND BASHAI TUDU'. - is about a journalist’s memory of a rebel called Dopdi who never seems to die. It’s an experimental film not following a strict narrative structure and is highly visual with a complimenting sound track which enhances the film’s dark atmosphere. The film was shot in black and white and printed on color to achieve the dark, high contrast, gritty images.
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Bas Yun Hi
Title: Bas Yun Hi
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Comedy - Aditya is a young man who does not believe in astrology, but when a friend makes his astrological chart and explains to him that he is fated to marry a woman whose name begins with the letter V, Aditya decides to see for himself if this is true. *Subtitles not available for this feature* - Purab Kohli, Nandita Das, Rajiv Gopalakrishnan
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The Little Republic
Title: The Little Republic
Released: August 28, 2002
Type: Movie
The women of a small Indian village band together when they discover a possible solution for a badly needed well, and the men of the village fail to do what needs to be done.
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Ek Ruka Hua Faisla
Title: Ek Ruka Hua Faisla
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Official remake of Basu Chatterjee's 1986 classic film of the same name, an Indian adaptation of Hollywood classic '12 Angry Men'.