Daminee Benny Basu

Acting

Daminee Benny Basu

Daminee Benny Basu has been brought up on stage from her childhood as a trained singer-actor. She is an acclaimed performance-artist and a coach for actors. Her orientation has been very close to the Indian theatre for the last thirty-five years. On stage she has worked with directors like Soumitra Chattopadhyay, Asit Basu, Usha Ganguly, Bibhash Chakraborty, Debesh Chattopadhyay, Arun Mukhopadhyay, Suman Mukhopadhyay, Anjan Dutt to name only a few. Daminee Benny is a known name in cinema as well, where she has acted, coached and researched as a consultant for directors like Rituparno Ghosh, Vishal Bhardwaj, Kaushik Ganguly, Shoojit Sircar, Srijit Mukherji, Anik Dutta, Raj Chakraborty, Indranil Roychowdhury and Parambrata Chattopadhyay.

Acting credits

Ghya Chang Fou poster
8.5

Ghya-chang-fou literally means 'suddenly beheading' in Bengali. it features thirteen unnamed people gathering in a mansion filled with archaic objects to celebrate what appears to be a communist revolution. Nothing seems real, roads open up to improbable places, places lead to impossible elevators, elevators lift people to unconvincing roads. Bacchanalian spirit steadily overtakes the initial deadpan seriousness. The encore of celebration sounds delusionary as the drunken conversation about communism, about its methods and means, about it intricate turns through history degenerates to bourgeois nonsense and decadence leading to absurd rifts, comic conflicts, unleashed orgies and debauchery.

Ghya Chang Fou

2017

Akash Ongshoto Meghla poster
NR

The film connects apparently disconnected stories of two men who have lost their way of life as a consequence of unexpected lockout or closure of factory.

Akash Ongshoto Meghla

2022

The Parcel poster
6.0

A woman tries to uncover the mystery behind a series of mysterious packages from an anonymous sender that threaten her marriage.

The Parcel

2020

No artwork available
NR

In an exploration of grief through the absurd, Priyanka seeks comfort in her conversations with Neha, soon after lighting the pyre of her old father, with whom she shared a difficult relationship.

The Paperman

2017

Doodhpither Gachh poster
NR

This independent feature film is about Gour, a speech-impaired little boy, and his life and adventures in a village in rural West Bengal. The film was crowdfunded by 930 residents of Aranghata village in the district of Nadia, who raised around ₹19L for the making of the film.

Doodhpither Gachh

2020

Purbo Poschim Dokkhin Uttor Ashbei poster
NR

Stuti Sanyal, a terminally ill woman who lost her husband in an aviation accident, takes a train to Vellore from her home town, Kolkata. Little does she know that the journey will bring a roller coaster ride of emotions, as a stranger in the train narrates three stories to her. Each one teaches her something about the essence of life, culminating in a life-changing experience.

Purbo Poschim Dokkhin Uttor Ashbei

2019

Sraboner Dhara poster
8.0

The life of a renowned geriatrician, struggling with his personal problems, changes with the arrival of a patient with Alzheimer's disease and his wife.

Sraboner Dhara

2020

Ardhangini poster
NR

After Suman suffers an accident, the two women in his life - Meghna, the wife, and Shubhra, the ex-wife - are compelled to meet each other. Ardhangini revolves around the awkward emotional duel between the two wives - past and present - in a time of personal crisis.

Ardhangini

2023

Jyeshthoputro poster
5.6

A popular movie star, the eldest son of his parents, returns to his ancestral village for his father's funeral, only to unearth long-hidden complexities within his family.

Jyeshthoputro

2019