Indrani Haldar is a famous Bengali actress.
She made her acting debut as a child artiste in the television serial "Tero Parban".Indrani is one of the few actresses Bengali cinema currently prides itself for.
She shared a national award with Rituparna Sengupta in the best actress category in 1998, for the film Dahan in the 42nd National Film Festival of India. She was honoured for her role as Jhinuk, the schoolteacher who takes up the cause of a molested woman she hardly knows in Rituparno Ghosh's "Dahan".But the joy of receiving the national award was dulled for Indrani by the sorrow of having her father die just before "Dahan" was released.However the national award came as a fitting tribute following a string of excellent performances in mainstream and parallel cinema and on television. Indrani is a favourite with parallel film-makers in Calcutta.
Her character of Jhinuk in the movie " Dahan" was based on a real life character named Ananya Chatterjee a journalist who actually saved a young housewife from being molested and kidnapped outside the Calcutta metro a few years ago.
She considers herself grateful to Buddhadev Dasgupta for giving her a break in art house cinema "Charachar".It was a brief but significant role and fetched her the Bengal Film Journalists Association Best Actress Award in 1995. She had won the same award in 1993 for her role in "Kaancher Prithibi".
In 1997 she bagged the Patton Kalakar Award for her double role as mother and daughter in the television serial "Kuasha Jakhan".
She also did a challenging title role in Satarupa Sanyal's first directorial effort, "Anu" (1998). There she plays a young girl who is gang-raped when her fianc is in jail. She marries the jailbird after his release, but he discovers the scars on her body on the nuptial night.The marriage goes unconsummated; he wallows in self-pity while she works on to make both ends meet. Finally she walks out of the marriage and decides to strike it out on her own.Indrani's performance was exemplary, but shoddy direction and editing saw to it that though the film found a place in the Panorama section at the Hyderabad Filmotsav, it was rejected for the national awards.
Indrani has a special corner for her role in an episode of Rituparno Ghosh's serial "Bahanno Episode". She played a successful film actress still in love with the boy next door who helped her out in amateur plays.
Indrani went on to work in Gautam Ghose's film Faqir(1998), in Hindi. This was originally slated for television but has been shot on 35 mm. In Faqir, she played the role of Nimmi, a young married girl. Her husband is indifferent to the physical side of their relationship. So Nimmi goes ahead and leads a promiscuous life, yet loves her husband deeply and suffers from pangs of guilt. Yet she cannot make herself stop.
Indrani had one brief marriage behind her that she doesn't wish to talk about. She later fell for her co-star in Dahan, the handsome Sanjeeb Dasgupta. They were even engaged to be married.But later she got married to a tea planter.
FILMOGRAPHY:
- Jara Brishtitey Bhijechhilo (Bengali - under production) Faltu (Bengali - 2005) Assassin (Bengali - 2004) Anandalok (Bengali - 2002) Bhairav (Hindi - 2001) Dekha (Bengali - 2001) Lal Darja (Bengali - 1997) Ankush (Bengali - 2006) Asamapto (Bengali - 2005) Debdas (Bengali - 2002) Saanjhbatir Roopkathara (Bengali - 2002) Paromitar Ek Din (Bengali - 2000) Anu (Bengali - 1998) Dahan (Hindi - 1997) Lal Darja (1997) Charachar (Bengali - 1994) Kaancher Prithibi (Bengali - 1992) Shwet Patharer Thala (Bengali - 1992) Sampradaan (Bengali) Apon Holo Pawr (Bengali) Daybaddha (Bengali) Ebong Tumi Aar Aami (Bengali) Jeebon Pakhi (Bengali) Bor-kone (Bengali) Atltaayi (Bengali) Chakravyuha (Bengali) Sagar Banya (Bengali) Saikat Sangeet (Bengali) Sesh Ashray (Bengali)
- Tin Bhuboner Paare (Bengali)
AWARDS:
- Best Actress (1998, for Dahan with Rituparna Sengupta, co-star), 42nd National Film Festival of India Bengal Film Journalists Association Best Actress Award for Charachar (1995) Bengal Film Journalists Association Best Actress Award for Kaancher Prithibi (1993)
- Patton Kalakar Award for roles in Kuasha Jakhan (1997)
TV & SHORT FILMS:
- Fakir (Hindi - 1998) Kuasha Jakhan (Bengali - 1997) Sange Indrani - a weekly interview on Tara TV featuring celebrity guests, hosted by Haldar Bahanno Episode Tamasharekha Ma Shakti Purbo Purush Bhool Thikana Jeebon Rekha Hamaari Shaadi
- Tero Parban
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