Paoli Dam

Acting

Paoli Dam

Born

1980-10-04 (46)

Place of birth

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Known for

Acting

Credits

69 titles

Paoli Dam (born 4 October 1980) is an Indian actress who started her career with the Bengali television serial Jibon Niye Khela (2003). She then worked in Bengali television serials such as Tithir Atithi and Sonar Harin; the former ran for six years on ETV Bangla. Dam spent her childhood in Kolkata, earning a postgraduate degree in chemistry from Rajabazar Science College. Initially, she wanted to become a chemical researcher or a pilot. Her debut Bengali film—Teen Yaari Katha, directed by Sudeshna Roy and Abhijit Guha—began in 2004, but was not released until 2012. Dam's first film release was Agnipariksha, directed by Ravi Kinagi. Between 2006 and 2009, she appeared in five Bengali films, …

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 12 titles

Bulbbul poster
6.5

A child bride grows up to be an enigmatic woman presiding over her household, harboring a painful past as supernatural murders of men plague her village.

Bulbbul

2020

Bibi Payra poster
3.0

When two overlooked women hit their breaking point, they take bold, reckless steps to change their lives. With limited power and unexpected allies, they dive into a chaotic plan that quickly turns into a comedy of errors.

Bibi Payra

2026

Holud Bani poster
NR

The story of the film focuses on a love triangle, revolves around a middle-class man who travels to a place called holud bani along with a single woman in search of a job. There, his meeting with a hot girl would change his life completely.

Holud Bani

2020

Abhijaan poster
8.0

A tribute to the life and accomplishments of the legendary Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee, who was a pioneer in Indian cinema with a career spanning seven decades.

Abhijaan

2021

Byomkesh Hotyamancha poster
4.6

Set in the tumultuous Naxalite uprising in Bengal in 1971, Byomkesh Bakshi gets involved in a story of vengeance when he decides to attend a play at the theatre and becomes witness to a crime unfolding on the center stage. As Byomkesh digs deep into the case, it opens him to a tripartite story of love, betrayal, and infidelity. And how the mystery is laid bare for Byomkesh to solve.

Byomkesh Hotyamancha

2022

Lokkhikantopur Local poster
NR

Lokkhikantopur Local movie deals with the life ordeals of house helps Kalyani, Maloti and Saraswati, visiting three different families in Kolkata.

Lokkhikantopur Local

2025

Raat Baaki Hai poster
6.0

It's a story of one night where estranged lovers Kartik and Vasuki end up meeting each other after 12 years under strange circumstances. Kartik is on a run for being a murder suspect. However, there is more than what meets the eye.

Raat Baaki Hai

2021

Dui poster
NR

Dui is the story of an uncompromising school teacher who love teaching slum-dwelling children for free. When his daughter is brutally raped and commits suicide, he tries to fight a politically corrupted AITC leader. One of his students takes the case. Will he win?

Dui

2023

Ektu Sore Boshun poster
NR

It follows the journey of Guddu who is a Sanskrit graduate from the small town of Begunbagicha, and literally wastes his time roaming around, being jobless and aimless in life. His friends are just like him. While Guddu’s parents are a bit eccentric, his only shining light in life is his childhood love Piu. The plot revolves around Guddu and he’s surrounded by many oddball characters. Guddu finally comes to Kolkata for a job opportunity and interestingly his love interest follows him as well.

Ektu Sore Boshun

2023

The Terrace poster
NR

Perturbed with her married responsibilities, a writer and a school teacher’s identity issues trigger when she is denied access to the terrace - her open space. A story of longing, resilience, and the quiet strength of a woman

The Terrace

2025

Palan poster
4.0

Kaushik Ganguly will bring the story of dismissal in his new film ‘Palan’ in the context of 2022. The characters of Kharij will remain the same, the names will not change. The story will change a bit to keep pace with the context of this era.

Palan

2023

Love Aaj Kal Porshu poster
7.0

Two people whose love is a force that can never be changed, no matter how much its surroundings may change. A unique take on the timelessness of romance.

Love Aaj Kal Porshu

2020

2010s · 41 titles

Maati poster
9.0

Meghla, who after years discovers that her grandmother had been killed in her ancestral home in East Pakistan by a trusted retainer of the family. And many years after the tragedy, she visits Dhaka to trace her roots and faces the murderer's family who now occupies her house. Maati traces Meghla's trials with truth and humanity while tackling issues of migration, human displacement, and relationships.

Maati

2018

Mushrooms poster
2.8

In a forest, near a border, a young Bengali and a European soldier attempt to get the better of one another. In Calcutta, Rahul, an architect who had gone off to build a career in Dubai, begins a huge construction site. He is reunited with his girlfriend, Paoli, who has long awaited his homecoming, living alone far from her family. Both set out to find Rahul's brother, who is said to have gone mad and who lives in the forest and sleeps in the trees.

Mushrooms

2011

Parapaar poster
6.0

Communication gaps surface when a man returns home after a 14 year prison term and is finally forced to take his tormentor head on

Parapaar

2014

Ankur Arora Murder Case poster
5.8

A highly reputed doctor makes a small mistake, which costs the life of a kid Ankur Arora. Will he succeed in hiding his mistake or will the mother of the kid get Justice.

Ankur Arora Murder Case

2013

Aroni Tokhon poster
7.0

Aroni Takhon is a love story set against the time period between the two horrific events, the demolition of the Babri Masjid on 6th December, 1992 and the Godhra train burn on 28th February, 2002. The film showcases the effects of such macro events and how everyone knowingly or unknowingly are affected by it.

Aroni Tokhon

2017

Hate Story poster
5.2

Journalist Kavya Krishna loves tycoon Siddharth - who uses and abuses her. How far will Kavya go to get revenge?

Hate Story

2012

Teen Yaari Katha poster
5.0

The story narrates three adult boy's life from three different background.

Teen Yaari Katha

2012

Maya Mridanga poster
NR

This is about psychology of artistes and the varied motivations that drive them. With music being the central theme, the film revolves around the live of the folk musician Birbhum, Jhakshu.

Maya Mridanga

2016

Hercules poster
5.0

Hercules is the story of a common man: His actual name is Harakailash, his timid nature and compromising attitude has prompted the local people to call him Hercules in jest.

Hercules

2014

Swatta poster
7.0

A bohemian encounters a woman with whom a love affair ensues.

Swatta

2017

Moner Manush poster
7.5

The movie is about a poet and singer Lalon Fakir who belongs to a cult called baul and who believes and inculcates that the value of a human being is above the narrow belief of religions.

Moner Manush

2010

Zulfiqar poster
4.8

A modern day adaptation of two of William Shakespeare's tragedies - Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra.

Zulfiqar

2016

Asamapta - Incomplete poster
5.5

Indrajit (played by the consistently stellar Ritwick Chakraborty) is an intelligent if indecisive man of 35 on holiday from Kolkata to visit his old college friend Moloy. He arrives to find Moloy constantly battling with his neglected wife Tuki, a formidable woman seeking elsewhere for the tenderness she fails to receive at home. In town, Indrajit comes across a familiar man whose insistence that they’ve never met before clearly masks an intriguing secret. Then, Indrajit runs into an old lover and her jealous husband, setting the stage for some fierce confrontation.

Asamapta - Incomplete

2017

Shantilal O Projapoti Rohoshyo poster
4.3

A deadbeat weather reporter at an English newspaper in Kolkata evolves into a detective when he pursues a deeply buried story about an adult movie star.

Shantilal O Projapoti Rohoshyo

2019

Black Coffee poster
6.0

Saswata, Paoli and Badshah in Atanu Bose film.

Black Coffee

2017

Ahare Mon poster
6.3

A heartwarming collage of inter-connected love stories, Ahare Mon is a romantic drama that revolves around people who are otherwise forbidden to fall in love.

Ahare Mon

2018

Elar Char Adhyay poster
8.5

Indranath is a leader of a group which is fighting for Indian independence. Ela is the teacher of the group. Ela is caught in a dilemma between her love for Atindra and her commitment towards her country.

Elar Char Adhyay

2012

Khawto poster
6.0

A young couple meet a mysterious man who, in the course of conversation, covers Japanese cuisine, Bengali literature, and his own checkered past.

Khawto

2016

Natoker Moto: Like a Play poster
NR

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

Hukumat Ki Aandhi poster
4.3

Local Bhojpuri politicians fight each other and unleash terror on villages in order to grab land from poor farmers after Pramod, a righteous young leader, dies.

Hukumat Ki Aandhi

2017

Kagojer Bou poster
NR

Subimal promises Upal money if he manages to help Subimal get close to Preeti.

Kagojer Bou

2011

Maacher Jhol poster
6.8

A world-renowned chef returns to his roots through a bowl of fish curry, the quintessential Bengali delicacy.

Maacher Jhol

2017

Halkaa poster
5.3

Halkaa is a story of a eight year old boy who lives in the slums of delhi and wants proper access to a toilet. This story is of a boy who is a real life Superhero who fights against the system to get what he wants and deserves.

Halkaa

2018

Mirchi Malini poster
7.0

A thriller about a food taster, who can know everything about you by tasting the food you have made...even your darkest secrets.

Mirchi Malini

2018

Sanjhbati poster
7.0

Sulekha, a lonely elderly woman, misses her son who lives in a different country but finds comfort in the company of her caretakers.

Sanjhbati

2019

Tritio Adhyay poster
NR

When Kaushik on his own mission stumbles upon his ex-girlfriend Shreya in a small town in Jharkhand, the demons from the past rears its ugly head.

Tritio Adhyay

2019

Banshiwala poster
10.0

Mridul suffers a huge loss in his business and decides to return to his ancestral house for selling the property. However, the property is taken care of by an old headmaster and his daughter Lakshmi.

Banshiwala

2010

No artwork available
2.0

Deb, Joy, and Ananda are unhappy with their lives. While Joy's wife earns more than he does, Ananda‘s wife is a housewife and Deb is a kind of man who wants to sleep with any girl who catches his eye. Will their bedroom stories forever be the same or will they make an effort to get along well with each other?

Bedroom

2012

Obhishopto Nighty poster
4.1

The story of the film revolves around a cursed nightie which changes hands in a logical manner, not magically. The original owner of the nightie had experienced unfulfilled love, which ultimately led to a curse on it. A wannabe actress comes to Kolkata from a village in pursue of her career. She can cross all limits in order to become successful. She uses that nightie for seducing producers and she doesn't regret in what she is doing. The events that take place later form the climax of the story.

Obhishopto Nighty

2014

Ajana Batas poster
10.0

Deepa, a copywriter, lives in the city, away from her Ranaghat home town. She stays with her uncle and is very close to him. They share a unique bond of friendship.

Ajana Batas

2015

Password poster
NR

A police officer tracks down a cyber criminal that hacks the passwords of innocent people in order to destroy their lives.

Password

2019

Family Album poster
2.0

This is a movie that exposes the not-so picture-perfect Family Album...a hilarious and sad and eccentric concoction of the truth.

Family Album

2015

Chawlochitro Circus poster
NR

Chawlochitro Circus is based on the life of a Bengali filmmaker who tries to make a film but faces many obstructions. It showcases the struggles of a film director in a funny way.

Chawlochitro Circus

2017

Gang of Ghosts poster
3.5

A group of ghosts reside in an old house and live in harmony despite cultural differences. However, when they learn that a builder plans to demolish the building, they band together to stop him.

Gang of Ghosts

2014

Mandobasar Golpo poster
6.0

With the assistance of a psychiatrist, an acclaimed filmmaker struggles to come to terms with a mysterious romantic trauma.

Mandobasar Golpo

2017

Tobu Aporichito poster
10.0

A married couple who start on the wrong side and detest each other eventually grow close and learn to appreciate and love each other.

Tobu Aporichito

2016

Thana Theke Aschi poster
3.8

A suspect is looked for by an eligible police officer after a women allegedly committed suicide...

Thana Theke Aschi

2010

The Bait poster
5.2

The way that people are used as bait is explored through three stories about three different characters.

The Bait

2016

Devi poster
5.0

It's an adaptation and deconstruction of an age old classic, 'DEVDAS', by the great Bengali writer Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay. In this film the gender of the main characters has been reversed and all of them are placed in twenty-first century.

Devi

2017

Someday Somewhere, Jete Pari Chole... poster
NR

A young girl named Ruu went on a vacation with her family. She was unhappy. A young Sikkimese Car Driver cum guide helps her to come out of her trauma as he takes her to visit Kanchanjungha, the snow clad mountain range. She reveals that her days are numbered as she is HIV positive and an AIDS victim. She decides to stay back in the lap of the Himalayas for ever.

Someday Somewhere, Jete Pari Chole...

2011

Prime Time poster
NR

The film revolves around the journey of beautiful Chandana and tough Sayantan who are crime reporters. They operate together and find exclusive and breaking news for their channel.

Prime Time

2015

2000s · 6 titles

Series credits

The Revolutionaries poster
6.5

The Revolutionaries narrates the inspiring tale of brave young Indian freedom fighters who fought for ending British Raj with their unwavering spirit and ideology.

The Revolutionaries

2026

The Great Indian Murder poster
5.9

Vikrant aka Vicky Rai, industrialist with a Casanova lifestyle, is killed at his own party to celebrate his acquittal in the rape and murder of two young girls. His father, Jagannath Rai, who is also the Home Minister of Chhattisgarh, demands a CBI inquiry. Officers Suraj Yadav and Sudha Bharadwaj lead the investigation following six suspects.

The Great Indian Murder

2022

Charlie Chopra & the Mystery of Solang Valley poster
6.1

Amateur detective Charlie Chopra investigates a murder at her fiancé's family home in the mountains of Himachal Pradesh, uncovering secrets and facing danger.

Charlie Chopra & the Mystery of Solang Valley

2023

Julie poster
NR

Julie follows the story of a young girl with a passion for singing, who after being sold to a brothel under tragic circumstances, paves her path as a prostitute with a golden voice whose future in politics brings turmoil into a corrupt political system.

Julie

2025

Karm Yuddh poster
7.0

A deadly fire accident at the Roy Group of Industries brings Bhisham Roy under the scanner, inciting a power grab within the family.

Karm Yuddh

2022

Mahanayak poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mahanayak

2016

Kaali poster
9.0

A story which takes you on a cliffhanger ride where a mother has one night to save her son.

Kaali

2018

Ganoshotru poster
NR

A crime series that chronicles the lives and reigns of five of West Bengal's most feared public enemies - villains, whose terror once gripped different corners of the state.

Ganoshotru

2025

No artwork available
NR

Kauriburir Mandir is based on an ancient manuscript, lost tribal folklore of the Deori community's forgotten Patargoyya clan, and a hunt for a mythical flower.

Kauriburir Mandir

2026