Tannishtha Chatterjee

Born: 1980-11-23

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.


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as Masha
Released: 2012-09-06

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

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Lion

as Noor
Released: 2016-11-24

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

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Parched

as Rani
Released: 2015-11-14

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

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Brick Lane

as Nazneen Ahmed
Released: 2007-11-16

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

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Jhalki

as uncredited
Released: 2019-09-27

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

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Joram

as Vaano
Released: 2023-12-07

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

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Sunrise

as Leela
Released: 2014-10-03

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

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Meena

as Meena Hasina
Released: 2014-06-24

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

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A Prayer for Rain

as Leela
Released: 2014-12-05

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

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Monsoon Shootout

as Rani
Released: 2017-12-15

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

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Water

as Kajri
Released: 2013-10-06

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

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Barah Aana

as Rani
Released: 2009-03-13

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

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Rakkhosh

as Shoma Sekhri
Released: 2019-01-20

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

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Siddharth

as uncredited
Released: 2013-10-10

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

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Angry Indian Goddesses

as Nargis Nasreen
Released: 2015-12-04

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

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unINDIAN

as Meera
Released: 2015-10-15

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

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Island City

as Aarti
Released: 2015-09-08

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

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Road, Movie

as The Woman
Released: 2010-03-05

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

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Gulaab Gang

as uncredited
Released: 2014-03-07

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

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Jalpari

as uncredited
Released: 2012-08-31

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

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Interdependence Film 2019

as Megha's lawyer (segment "Megha's Divorce")
Released: 2019-10-22

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

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Yellow Bus

as Ananda Ishwar
Released: 2023-09-10

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

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Gour Hari Dastaan

as Anita
Released: 2015-08-14

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

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Beyond the Clouds

as Chotu's Mom
Released: 2018-04-20

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

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Rough Book

as Santoshi
Released: 2016-06-24

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

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Chauranga

as Dhaniya
Released: 2016-01-08

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

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Shadows of Time

as Masha (Adult)
Released: 2005-11-06

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

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Calcutta Unabashed

as uncredited
Released: 2006-06-06

A young man negotiates his erotic and thanatotic drives.

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I Love NY

as Riya
Released: 2015-07-10

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

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Roam Rome Mein

as uncredited
Released: 2019-10-05

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

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Feast of Varanasi

as Inspector Rajveer Saxsena
Released: 2016-03-11

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

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Miles of Sand

as Durga
Released: 2016-10-22

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

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Guy in the Sky

as Chhaaya
Released: 2017-06-13

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

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Dahini - The Witch

as Kamala
Released: 2022-11-21

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Let the Wind Blow

as Mona
Released: 2004-01-12

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

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Lihaaf: The Quilt

as Ismat Chugtai
Released: 2019-07-19

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

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Bombay Summer

as Geetha
Released: 2009-09-18

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

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Rani Rani Rani

as Rani
Released: 2022-07-24

For Rani, the caretaker at an abandoned factory, in an almost-abandoned Indian village, it's...

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Notes on her

as Draupadi
Released: 2003-08-11

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

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The Kapil Sharma Show

as Herself
First aired: 2016-04-23

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Comedy Nights Bachao

as Self
First aired: 2015-09-15

Based on the format of roast comedy, the show features comic crusaders who take a jibe at...

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Modern Love Mumbai

as Rayman
First aired: 2022-05-13

Explore 6 unique yet universal stories of human connection and love in its varied forms –...

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Scoop

as Leena Pradhan
First aired: 2023-06-02

The shocking murder of a journalist thrusts a leading crime reporter into a nexus of police,...

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Cartel

as Romila
First aired: 2021-08-20

One attack that will change the future of the house of The Angres. Will the first family of the...

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