Tannishtha Chatterjee

Acting

Tannishtha Chatterjee

Born 1980-11-23 · Pune, Maharashtra, India

Tannishtha Chatterjee  is an Indian actor. She is best known in the west for her performance in the British film Brick Lane (2007), the film adaptation of Monica Ali's best selling novel of the same name. She has been the only Indian to be nominated for the British Independent Film Awards (BAFTA) as the best actress for Brick Lane. Her other notables roles have been in Academy Award-winning German director Florian Gallenberger's film, Shadows of Time, Road, Movie with Abhay Deol and Bibar for which she won Best Actress at the 2006 Osian Film Festival and the 2007 BFJA awards.

Acting credits

Lion poster
8.0

A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

Lion

2016

Anna Karenina poster
6.7

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.

Anna Karenina

2012

Parched poster
7.3

In the arid landscape of Rajasthan, four women navigate their way through personal and cultural difficulties.

Parched

2015

Road, Movie poster
5.5

Vishnu has a bleak future before him, he must join his father in the family's oil business and try and boost the sales of the stinking oil in small town India. He sees his chance to escape by offering to transport a ramshackle truck, with a make-shift cinema, to a distant museum that lies across the expansive desert of Kutch. His companions: a chai-wallah chokra, a gypsy girl and a burlesque mechanic.

Road, Movie

2010

Gulaab Gang poster
6.0

A fearless woman fights social injustice; creating a sanctuary for abused women and battling a crooked politician.

Gulaab Gang

2014

unINDIAN poster
5.7

Single mum Meera is an Australian of Indian origin. Smart and independent, she has carved out a successful life for herself and her daughter...despite family pressure to find a 'nice Indian match'. Then Meera meets Will, a blonde, blue-eyed Aussie charmer. But falling in love with an Australian is not only scandalous - it's unIndian! Does she do what her family wishes, or follow her heart?

unINDIAN

2015

Angry Indian Goddesses poster
6.8

A photographer invites her closest friends to vacation at her family's home in Goa in celebration of her upcoming marriage.

Angry Indian Goddesses

2015

Brick Lane poster
5.5

The grind of daily life as a Brick Lane Bangladessi as seen through the eyes of Nazneen (Chatterjee), who at 17 enters an arranged marriage with Chanu (Kaushik). Years later, living in east London with her family, she meets a young man Karim (Simpson).

Brick Lane

2007

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Divorce: Not Between Husband and Wife

2005

Chauranga poster
6.3

A fourteen year old boy in rural India is killed for writing a love letter.

Chauranga

2016

Let the Wind Blow poster
5.5

At the height of nuclear tensions between India and Pakistan, Arjun and his best friend, Chabia, weigh their options for the future against the reality of life on the streets of Mumbai.

Let the Wind Blow

2004

Beyond the Clouds poster
6.3

A hedonistic teenager in Mumbai is busted for dealing drugs and goes to his estranged sister for help, but complications land her in jail.

Beyond the Clouds

2018

A Prayer for Rain poster
6.3

Thirty years on from the 1984 Union Carbide plant malfunction, the consequences of which are tragically ongoing, A Prayer for Rain is the powerful and moving story of the Bhopal tragedy, one of the great corporate and environmental scandals of the last half-century. It dramatises the dependence of the local community on the chemical plant that will eventually cause catastrophe, and the series of oversights that led to an event that stands as a benchmark for corporate irresponsibility in the developing world.

A Prayer for Rain

2014

Shadows of Time poster
6.1

Ravi and Masha are just children when they were sold into labour by their parents. When they meet, friendship blossoms between them but when the factory manager threatens to sell Masha, possibly into sex slavery, Ravi gives up his hard earned savings to buy her freedom. They agree on a way to find each other once Ravi has earned enough money to buy his freedom but a series of misunderstandings and fear tear them apart. Though they now have their freedom in life, they have to find their way in love.

Shadows of Time

2005

Jhalki poster
6.8

A lyrical story of lost childhood, against the powerful backdrop of child slavery and human trafficking. It is a heart-rending but inspiring story of a nine-year old street-smart girl, Jhalki, in search of her seven-year old brother, Babu, who is suddenly thrown into an inhuman world of child labor with no respite from a terminally gloomy, dark and depressing workplace. Armed with an intimate folk tale of a tireless sparrow, her own ingenious efforts and her charming presence of mind, Jhalki manages her search and eventually free her brother, along with thousands of other enslaved children caught in this insidious practice, affecting over 200 million children worldwide.

Jhalki

2019

Monsoon Shootout poster
6.4

A rookie cop joins the crime branch of the Mumbai police department, and on his first assignment is faced with the dilemma of whether he should shoot a murder suspect who is attempting to escape or not.

Monsoon Shootout

2017

Doctor Rakhmabai poster
NR

The story of India's first practicing lady doctor, social rebel and medical pioneer who paved the way for a fight against gender discrimination.

Doctor Rakhmabai

The Storyteller poster
7.3

After decades of working in the printing industry in Kolkata in eastern India, Tarini has reached retirement age. He spends his days at home, having declined his son’s invitation to come to the United States. Then a friend shows him a help-wanted ad. Although he has never published a book, Tarini used to tell made-up stories to his friends in his youth, and the ad for a storyteller in Ahmedabad in western India piques his interest.

The Storyteller

2022

No artwork available
9.0

The women of a small Indian village band together when they discover a possible solution for a badly needed well, and the men of the village fail to do what needs to be done.

The Little Republic

2002

Rani Rani Rani poster
6.0

A caretaker is trapped in a time loop with her husband on one hand, and his brother and ruthless sister-in-law on the other.

Rani Rani Rani

2022

Miles of Sand poster
NR

A single mother in rural India has to pay a heavy price to repay her debts.

Miles of Sand

2016

Joram poster
7.5

A father is on the run with his little baby girl to escape the ghosts of his past and the forces that want him dead.

Joram

2023

No artwork available
NR

A darkly ironic melodrama of star-crossed lovers Gulshan and Manisha, whose forbidden love yearns to be free from Nana – Manisha’s overbearing lecherous drunk of a husband

Monkey Bastard!

2003

Bombay Summer poster
7.0

Bombay Summer explores the fleeting and delicate friendship between three young people in Mumbai, India. The film follows their journey of discovery, love and loss.

Bombay Summer

2009

Behind the camera