Tannishtha Chatterjee

Acting

Tannishtha Chatterjee

Born November 23, 1980 · Pune, Maharashtra, India (age 45)

Tannishtha Chatterjee (born 23 November 1980) is an Indian actress. She is best known 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-w…

Known For

LionLion · 2016
Lion
★ 8.02016
MovieDrama
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.
Anna KareninaAnna Karenina · 2012
Anna Karenina
★ 6.72012
MovieDramaRomance
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.
The StorytellerThe Storyteller · 2022
The Storyteller
★ 7.12022
MovieDrama
After decades of working in the printing industry in Kolkata in eastern India, Tarini has reached retirement age. He spends his days at home, having declined his son’s invitation to come to the United States. Then a friend shows him a help-wanted ad. Although he has never published a book, Tarini used to tell made-up stories to his friends in his youth, and the ad for a storyteller in Ahmedabad in western India piques his interest.
InterdependenceInterdependence · 2019
Interdependence
★ 5.02019
MovieDocumentaryComedy
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.
ParchedParched · 2015
Parched
★ 7.32015
MovieDrama
In the arid landscape of Rajasthan, four women navigate their way through personal and cultural difficulties.
RakkhoshRakkhosh · 2019
Rakkhosh
★ 6.12019
MovieHorror
The movie explores the horrors and fantasies of a patient trapped in a mental asylum.
Angry Indian GoddessesAngry Indian Goddesses · 2015
Angry Indian Goddesses
★ 6.82015
MovieComedyDrama
A photographer invites her closest friends to vacation at her family's home in Goa in celebration of her upcoming marriage.
A Prayer for RainA Prayer for Rain · 2014
A Prayer for Rain
★ 6.32014
MovieHistoryDrama
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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Chhoti Moti BateinChhoti Moti Batein · 2014
Chhoti Moti Batein
2014
MovieDrama
Rita (Ananya Chatterjee) and Chhoti (Tannishtha Chatterjee) are two middle-aged, unmarried sisters who live in a housing complex with their father (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) and Lucy, a pet dog, their mother having died when they were children. The father and his daughters share a deep bond. The dog, Lucy, represents the child in the family, Rita’s very own. Their foursome togetherness is suddenly fractured when their father dies, later followed by the death of the dog, Lucy. The sisters cope with their personal traumas and try to carry on. But circumstances they have never been conditioned to face gets them trapped in a series of unpleasant situations which leave them shattered and weakened each time. Then, in their hurt and humiliation, Rita and Chhoti shut their door to the world and reject it. (Upperstall)

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