Roopa Ganguly

Acting

Roopa Ganguly

Born

1966-11-25 (59)

Place of birth

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Known for

Acting

Credits

64 titles

Roopa Ganguly (born 25 November 1966) is an Indian actress, playback singer and politician. She is best known for her rendition of Draupadi in B R Chopra's hit television series Mahabharat (1988). Often promoted as the Bengali Film Industry's answer to Bollywood's Shabana Azmi, she is known for her versatility and accent adaptation. She worked with directors such as Mrinal Sen, Aparna Sen, Goutam Ghose and Rituparno Ghosh. She is a trained Rabindra Sangeet vocalist and a classical dancer. She received several awards including a National Award and two BFJA Awards. In October, 2015, she was nominated as a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, by the President of India. She served as the President…

Known for

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Karam Apnaa Apnaa is an Indian soap opera that aired on Star Plus and was produced by Ekta Kapoor of Balaji Telefilms.

Karam Apnaa Apnaa

2006

Meyebela poster
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Newlywed Mohona finds herself at odds with her mother-in-law Bithika. Will the commonalities of life bring them together for a good cause?

Meyebela

2023

Mahabharat poster
7.2

A dynastic struggle occurs for the throne of Hastinapur, the kingdom ruled by the Kuru clan, between the Kauravas and Pandavas, collateral branches of the clan, which causes the Kurukshetra War.

Mahabharat

1988

Barfi! poster
7.6

The heartwarming tale of Barfi, a charming deaf-mute young man from 1970s Darjeeling, and two unalike women who can't help but fall for him.

Barfi!

2012

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Love Story is an Indian television drama, produced by Hindi film director Anurag Basu and directed by Ravi Davala. The series originally aired in India on SAB TV from April 30, 2007, to January 17, 2008. Beginning June 11, 2007, the series was retelecast on sister network Sony Entertainment Television. Although the show was dropped from SET's line-up in India within months, the series aired until its completion on SET's international feed, Sony Entertainment Television Asia, which aired the concluding episode of the series on January 31, 2008.

Love Story

2007

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Waqt Batayega Kaun Apna Kaun Paraya is a Hindi television saga that aired on Sony TV based on the story of a girl name Rudra who faces many hurdles by her adoptive family members. The series premiered on April 14, 2008 and is produced by Dheeraj Kumar's production house Creative Eye Limited.

Waqt Batayega Kaun Apna Kaun Paraya

2008

Film credits

2010s · 18 titles

Barfi! poster
7.6

The heartwarming tale of Barfi, a charming deaf-mute young man from 1970s Darjeeling, and two unalike women who can't help but fall for him.

Barfi!

2012

Arshinagar poster
3.9

Arshinagar is a Bengali musical romance drama film directed by Aparna Sen. The screenplay is an adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

Arshinagar

2015

Abosheshey poster
6.9

Post his parents' divorce, Soumyo lives with his father in San Francisco but returns to Kolkata after his mother dies. There, he learns a lot about his mother through her diary and all her belongings.

Abosheshey

2012

Hemlock Society poster
7.1

Hemlock Society is a school that teaches aspirants how to successfully commit suicide. Meghna, one of the aspirants, has a near-death experience, turning everybody's lives upside-down.

Hemlock Society

2012

Jaani Dekha Hobe poster
7.0

A young musician and a fatso model have the same dream together, and they meet and fall in love at a bookstore. When their relationship starts to fall apart, an out-of-work magician steps in.

Jaani Dekha Hobe

2011

Natoker Moto: Like a Play poster
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Kheya, a theatre artist, faces challenges in her personal and professional life spanning from 1950 to 1970s in a world dominated by misogynistic men.

Natoker Moto: Like a Play

2015

Nobel Chor poster
6.0

The Nobel Medal of great Indian Poet Rabindra Nath Tagore was stolen in 2004 and it was never found. This film is a fictional account of what might have happened to the medal. A poor farmer...

Nobel Chor

2011

Onyo Opalaa poster
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This is the story of the journey of Opalaa, a middle aged widow. Opalaa is married in an aristocratic family, at a very tender age but on the very night of their marriage, her husband rejects her.

Onyo Opalaa

2015

Rehmat Ali poster
6.0

A man evolves from seeking retributive justice to wanting peace for himself and his family.

Rehmat Ali

2010

Dutta Vs Dutta poster
8.5

Dutta Vs Dutta is a 2012 Bengali film directed by Anjan Dutt. This is Anjan Dutt's semi-autobiographical film. Most of the film has been shot in a house of Amherst Street in Kolkata. Anjan has described this house resonated feel of his old house of Beniapukur.

Dutta Vs Dutta

2012

Aro Ekbar poster
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"Aro ekbar" is the film about women empowerment, middle age obsession, single motherhood, marriage or live-in relationship which one is acceptable in Indian society, friendship and bonding ...

Aro Ekbar

2015

Mayabazaar poster
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Three different stories Smriti (Memories), Satwa (Soul) and Bhobiswot (Future) get interwoven in one complex plot, creating a world of illusion.

Mayabazaar

2012

Gurudakshina poster
3.5

An orphaned boy Dev is adopted by Guruji and brought to his dance academy in Kolkata, owing to his dancing skills. Impressed by his talent, guruji takes him under his wings. However, Dev's one-sided love for Guruji's daughter Sanjukta changes their lives forever. Sanjukta finds herself seduced by Chhau dancer Gambhira instead, who seems like a man of dubious intent. Turns out he is a Naxalite, on a secret mission.

Gurudakshina

2015

Aashbo Aarek Din poster
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Chandana's sister in law is in love with a dashing Punjabi who has business interests.

Aashbo Aarek Din

2013

Punascha poster
7.5

Punascha is a serious film about the relationship between an elderly author and his old flame which hits the headlines one fine day when things goes all wrong.

Punascha

2014

Namte Namte poster
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The film revolves around a typical middle-class family of Bengal. Ananda (Rajatava Dutta) is a very meek guy and is scared of confronting people. He is a peace-loving man and very shy in nature. He works as a clerk in a government office. His wife Seema (Roopa Ganguly) is however a spirited woman and remains tense about him and her family.

Namte Namte

2013

Na Hannyate poster
5.0

Jui is caught in a situation where she could save only one of her kids and leave the other to die. Being a mother, Jui could never forgive herself for having to choose between her two children Ratan and Shiuli.

Na Hannyate

2012

NayanChampar Dinratri poster
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Nayanchampa, Champi and Malati are housemaids and work tirelessly to make their ends meet. However, despite the struggles they face, they find it hard to escape the reality of their lives.

NayanChampar Dinratri

2014

2000s · 21 titles

Piyali's Password poster
5.0

A young woman comes to the United States from India to complete the legal formalities of her scientist sister's accidental death. However, as she tries to wrap things up, to her horror she discovers that perhaps her sister's death was not accidental. Caught in a web of conspiracy in a foreign land she struggles to get behind the truth, determined to unravel the mystery behind her sister's untimely death.

Piyali's Password

2009

Crossroads of Love poster
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the movie directed by Anjan Dutt.

Crossroads of Love

2009

Antarmahal poster
6.8

In late 19th Century, Bengal Bhubaneswar Chowdhury (Jackie Shroff) is a wealthy and tyrannical Zamidar (Squire). He has two main obsessions: his desperate attempts for an heir, which even his new second wife Jashomati seems unable to deliver; and competing with his regional rivals to produce the most magnificent effigy of a goddess for the annual Durga Puja ceremony. This year he concocts a master plan - why not change the face of the goddess for the most powerful woman on Earth - Queen Victoria. Meantime his two wives Mahomaya and Jashomati try to look out for one another especially as Bhubeneshwar begins to sexually assault his younger wife each night. Traumatised and lonely, Jashomati is dangerously drawn towards the youthful sculptor who has been employed to create the great effigy of Durga, Goddess of destruction.

Antarmahal

2005

Luck poster
4.7

Born lucky, Karim Moussa takes to exploiting it instead of focusing on studies. Now a wealthy gambler, he decides to recruit about a dozen lucky people to participate in a deadly game of survival.

Luck

2009

Krishna Cottage poster
5.2

After their car breaks down, a group of collegians are forced to take shelter in the mysterious Krishna Cottage for the night. Little do they know that the cottage is haunted by a spirit awaiting its lover.

Krishna Cottage

2004

Chaurahen poster
10.0

It is an evocative and poignant composition consisting of three separate stories set in Mumbai, Kolkata and Kochi. Every story revolves around love, life and loss.

Chaurahen

2007

In the Forest... Again poster
8.0

The film features the characters from Satyajit Ray's Aranyer Din Ratri, returning to the forest over thirty years later. Ashim, Sanjoy, Harinath and Aparna have grown old in this film; Shekhar has died. They set out on a journey to break off every link with civilisation for a few days. However, the trip turns sour when Ashim and Aparna's daughter, Amrita, goes missing. It transpires that she is being held for ransom by local tribespeople. Police intervene and the kidnapped girl is returned to her parents, albeit against her own wishes.

In the Forest... Again

2003

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The story of Mahulbanir Sereng is a narrative revolving around the triangular love story of Aghore (Pijush Ganguly), with his wife Saheli (Chandrayee Ghosh) and Dr. Alaktak Roy (Shilajeet Majumdar). Aghore is a police constable who works in a different place so he often stays out of hometown, in the mean time his wife Saheli gets closer with the new young doctor of their village.

Mahulbanir Sereng

2004

Bariwali poster
7.4

A quiet drama about a lonely, sad, middle-aged woman, Banalata, who has lived a solitary existence since her husband-to-be died the night before their wedding from a snake bite. Never having quite gotten over the tragedy, she rarely ventures out and is clearly very lonely. This changes when she agrees to allow a film production to shoot in a wing in her sprawling estate.

Bariwali

2000

Nagordola poster
5.0

A dysfunctional family endures chronic illness, unplanned pregnancy, emotional instability, inappropriate affairs, and a host of other issues.

Nagordola

2005

Bidhatar Lekha poster
5.5

The film explores two lovers and their relationship in their last life that had come to a tragic end, and in 2007 the pair confronts each other again in the current incarnation.

Bidhatar Lekha

2007

The Understudy poster
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Adapted from "Dui nomberer asami" written by Nilanjan Chaterjee. 'Kaler Rakhal' ( The Understudy), is a musical depicting the lives of colorful 'Bahurupis' ( The itinerant performers ) in rural India, mainly in Bengal region. The story also focuses on contemporary social and political issues.

The Understudy

2009

Khela poster
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A filmmaker, averse to starting a family, intends to cast a disapproving couple's school-going son in a movie. What follows is a light-hearted journey that could potentially make him rethink his preferences about having a child.

Khela

2008

Jara Bristite Bhijechhilo poster
8.8

Arani, an aspiring poet, falls in love with Radha but her uncle forces her to get married to Ashim. Ashim turns out to be an abusive husband who tortures Radha.

Jara Bristite Bhijechhilo

2007

Bow Barracks Forever! poster
8.0

As the modern world hustles toward never-ending changes, the residents of a small Anglo-Indian community in the lively metropolis of Kolkata try to preserve their unique identity in this moving drama from India. A host of characters, including Emily (Lillete Dubey), her son Bradly (Clayton Rodgers) and the woman he loves, Anne (Neha Dubey) -- who's stuck in an abusive marriage -- deal with personal struggles and pressure to give up their homes.

Bow Barracks Forever!

2004

Dekha poster
5.8

The film revolves around an aging poet Sashi Bhusan Sanyal afflicted with glaucoma and nearly blind whose wife has deserted him because of his reckless lifestyle.

Dekha

2001

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Raja, an orphan adopted by a wealthy couple, is given love and vain respect but is deprived of education. He falls in love with Tithi but things take a bad turn when she learns that he is illiterate.

Mayer Raja

2005

Bastir Meye Radha poster
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Radha's life takes a downward spiral after her mother is killed. Fate brings her to the city and she gets a job as a house help. Things change when she falls in love with the handsome owner.

Bastir Meye Radha

2000

Empty Canvas poster
9.2

Soumitra, a brilliant painter and sculptor, visits Khajuraho to draw inspiration and meets Teesta there through a common friend. Love blossoms between them in Kolkata and though their family background and economic standards are poles apart, they decide to marry. On the marriage night, Soumitra is shocked to discover something about Teesta.

Empty Canvas

2005

A Fistful of Tales poster
7.0

Ek Mutho Chabi is a Bengali feature-film released in September 2005. As the name suggests, the movie does not tell one continuous story over 90 minutes; rather it's a compilation of six different stories combined together, all of around 20–25 minutes duration. All directed by different directors. The movie is a kind of experiment with short stories after success of telefilm industry.Argyakamal Mitra’s Janmodin, Partha Sen’s Pakshiraj, Indranil Roychowdhury’s Tapan Babu, Prabhat Roy’s Ragun Babur Galpo, Anjan Dutt’s Tarpor Bhalobasha and Kaushik Ganguly’s ProgressReport make up the package of six.

A Fistful of Tales

2005

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The story is of terrorism that’s plaguing different parts of the Northeast as the backdrop. Shilajeet Majumdar, a militant on the run, takes refuge in a dilapidated mansion. Rupa Ganguly stays there with her father-in-law Soumitra Chatterjee and his father Haradhan Bandopadhyay who’s confined to bed and is unable to speak. This film focuses on the friction and undercurrent of tension between the lady of the house and the terrorist.

Critical Encounter

2005

1990s · 13 titles

Naa Ille Naa Swargam poster
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No synopsis available yet.

Naa Ille Naa Swargam

1991

The Padma Boatman poster
8.0

In pre-Partition Bengal, Kuber, a poor fisherman struggles to survive along the wild Padma River. While navigating an affair with his spirited sister-in-law, Kuber becomes entangled with Hossain, a charismatic trader recruiting desperate villagers to settle on the isolated island of Moynadeep.

The Padma Boatman

1993

Bahaar Aane Tak poster
7.0

The lives of two friends are turned upside-down when someone from their past returns.

Bahaar Aane Tak

1990

Nishchaiy poster
5.7

The story of two brothers, Ravi and Rohan Yadav, separated due to unforeseen circumstances created by Ravi's employer.

Nishchaiy

1992

Pyar Ka Devta poster
7.8

No synopsis available yet.

Pyar Ka Devta

1990

Saugandh poster
4.6

Story of love and war

Saugandh

1991

Yugant poster
NR

Deepak and Anasuya are an estranged couple, now leading separate lives in Cuttack and Bombay. They meet again after 18 months of separation, at a small fishing village where they had once honeymooned.

Yugant

1995

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8.0

The film narrates the life of a little boy and his ostracized mother who is isolated from him as she is believed to be a witch in the village she lives in. It is based on a Bengali short story named Baen written by the renowned Indian author Mahasweta Devi.

Janani

1994

Police Matthu Dada poster
7.0

An inspector uses the lookalike of a police officer named Dhanush, who was brutally murdered, to catch a dangerous drug lord.

Police Matthu Dada

1991

Inspector Dhanush poster
9.0

Inspector Dhanush, an honest police officer, brings criminals to justice. When he stumbles upon a case involving Commissioner Avinash, he is killed and replaced by his lookalike.

Inspector Dhanush

1991

Prithibir Sesh Station poster
NR

Samaresh must find a way to clear his former lover Jayati's name from a murder case where she is accused of killing a man who is suspected to be behind her younger brother's disappearance.

Prithibir Sesh Station

1993

Sadharan Meye poster
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Ranjit, an honest policeman, works hard on taking down Ranita's gang but fails each time. An arrangement brings him to get to know about Ranita's real self Sarbani, his childhood sweetheart. Ranita's hands are tied for money, and commitments complicate their lives. Will they be able to reunite and get back on track?

Sadharan Meye

1991

Rajar Raja poster
NR

Raja takes to alcohol after the death of his parents. However, his life takes a turn when his childhood friends reconnect with him.

Rajar Raja

1994

1980s · 4 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera