Arundhati Roy

Acting

Arundhati Roy

Born 1961-11-24 · Shillong, Meghalaya, India

Suzanna Arundhati Roy is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things, which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the best-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes.

Acting credits

Drowned Out poster
8.0

An Indian family decide to stay at home and drown rather than make way for the Narmada dam Three choices. Move to the slums in the city, accept a place at a resettlement site or stay at home and drown. The people of Jalsindhi in central India must make a decision fast.

Drowned Out

2002

In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones poster
7.7

Annie struggles to to clear his bachelor's degree with one final hurdle - The Thesis. It's his final attempt to clear it. Can he?

In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones

1989

Massey Sahib poster
8.0

In a small, tribal district town of Central India in 1929, Francis Massey is the 'English Type Babu' at the Deputy Commissioner's office. Massey believes that because he is Christian and can speak English, he is a cut above other Indians and not very different from the white sahibs he serves. For a man of lowly birth, Massey has risen to a dizzying height. On the other hand, he acknowledges no realistic limits to his own free spirit. Whenever the real world fails him, he improvises - boldly, imaginatively. Alas, the unsmiling, implacable machinery of the Raj has no room for Massey Sahib, the travelling salesman, road foreman and entertainer. Right up to the bitter end, Massey believes that Deputy Commissioner Adam Sahib will step in and save him.

Massey Sahib

1986

Island Home Country poster
5.0

A poetic cine-essay about race and Australia’s colonised history and how it impacts into the present offering insights into how various individuals deal with the traumatic legacies of British colonialism and its race-based policies. The film’s consultative process, with ‘Respecting Cultures’ (Tasmanian Aboriginal Protocols), offers an evolving shift in Australian historical narratives from the frontier wars, to one of diverse peoples working through historical trauma in a process of decolonisation.

Island Home Country

2008

DAM/AGE: A Film with Arundhati Roy poster
7.0

DAM/AGE traces writer Arundhati Roy's bold and controversial campaign against the Narmada dam project in India, which will displace up to a million people.

DAM/AGE: A Film with Arundhati Roy

2002

No artwork available
7.8

Part documentary, part mixtape, WE is an audiovisual essay that uses archival video and 19 songs to illustrate parts of "Come September", a speech written and delivered by Arundhati Roy. Roy, a writer and rights activist, speaks eloquently on such themes as the United States' War on Terror, economic globalisation, nationalism, and civil unrest.

We

2006

Behind the camera