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Nandita Das Biography

Nandita Das is one of the most popular and richest Movie Actress who was born on November 7, 1969 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Indian actress, who was awarded the Nandi Award as Best Actress for her role in 2006’s film Kamli. She is also an award-winning director, whose directorial debut, Firaaq in 2008, won her much acclaim.

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Das has acted in over 40 feature films with directors such as Mrinal Sen, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Shyam Benegal, Deepa Mehta, and Mani Ratnam. She began her acting career with the street theatre group Jana Natya Manch. She is best known for her performances in director Deepa Mehta films Fire (1996) and Earth (1998; alongside Aamir Khan), Bawander (directed by Jagmohan Mundhra), and Naalu Pennungal (directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan ). She has acted in films in ten different languages: English, Hindi, Bengali, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Marathi, Odia, and Kannada. The Tamil actor Sukanya provided Das’ speaking voice in the Tamil classic Kannathil Muthamittal.

Das has served twice on the jury of the Cannes Film Festival. In 2005, she served on the main competition jury alongside Fatih Akin, Javier Bardem, Salma Hayek, Benoît Jacquot, Emir Kusturica, Toni Morrison, Agnès Varda, and John Woo. In 2013, she served on the Cinéfondation and short films jury with Jane Campion, Maji-da Abdi, Nicoletta Braschi, and Semih Kaplanoğlu.

From 2002 to 2009, she was married to Soumya S. She married Subodh Masara in 2010. They have a son, Vihaan.

NameNandita Das
First NameNandita
Last NameDas
OccupationMovie Actress
BirthdayNovember 7
Birth Year1969
Place of BirthMumbai
Home TownMaharashtra
Birth CountryIndia
Birth SignScorpio
Full/Birth Name
ParentsJatin Das, Varsha Das
SiblingsSiddhartha Das
SpouseSubodh Maskara , Saumya Sen
Children(s)Vihaan Maskara

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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Das narrated the children’s audiobook series Under the Banyan, and Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography by Charkha Audiobooks, The Story of My Experiments with Truth. She was also a voice actor in the children’s television series Wonder Pets, as the Bengal Tiger in the episode Save the Bengal Tiger (2007).

Nandita Das Net Worth

Nandita Das is one of the richest Movie Actress from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Nandita Das's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She was born in Delhi and received a Master of Social Work from the Delhi School of Social Work.

She was the first Indian woman to be inducted into International Women’s Forum’s Hall of Fame.

Nandita Das (born 1969) is an Indian actor and director. She has acted in over 40 feature films in ten different languages. Das won accolades for numerous performances, including in Fire (1996), Earth (1998), Bawandar (2000), Kannathil Muthamittal (2002), Azhagi (2002), Kamli (2006), and Before The Rains (2007). Her directorial debut Firaaq (2008), premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and traveled to more than 50 festivals, winning more than 20 awards. Her second film as a director was Manto (2018). Based on the life of 20th Century Indo-Pakistani short story writer Sadat Hasan Manto, the film was screened at Cannes Film Festival in the “Un Certain Regard” section. In September 2019, Das produced a two-minute Public Service Announcement music video India’s Got Colour. The music video is about the issue of colourism and urges the audience to celebrate India’s diversity of skin colour.

Net Worth$5 Million
SalaryUnder Review
Source of IncomeMovie Actress
CarsNot Available
HouseLiving in own house.

In 2008, she directed her first film, Firaaq. The film is a work of fiction “based on a thousand true stories” and is set a month after the 2002 Gujarat riots in India. It is an ensemble film that interweaves multiple stories over a 24-hour period, as the characters from different strata of society, grapple with the lingering effects of violence. Das said that the film “gave a voice to so much that remains silent”. In 2018, Nandita directed Manto. Das decided to make a film on Manto after reading a translation of his stories in 2012. She always had Nawazuddin Siddiqui in mind for the role and approached him for the same. The film was premiered in Cannes film festival in 2018. The film was also screened at Toronto International film festival. In 2019 Das produced and directed a PSA music video, ‘India’s Got Colour’.

Das has master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Delhi. She has worked for children’s rights, HIV/AIDS awareness, to end violence against women. In 2009, Das was appointed Chairperson of the Children’s Film Society of India. In 2012, she was the guest of honour at the iVolunteer Awards, held in Mumbai. Das also donated to the launch of the investigative journalism magazine Tehelka, founded by Tarun Tejpal.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Das has been a featured speaker at various platforms in India and abroad, including at MIT (in 2007, after a screening of Fire), and at Tufts University (in 2014, on gender in society and cinema).

Das was the first Indian inducted into the International Hall of Fame of the International Women’s Forum in Washington, DC. She was recognized in 2011 for “her sustained contributions to the arts and to the world as one of the most gripping cinema arts leaders of our time.” Her fellow inductees were Anna Fendi, Heidi Klum, and Madam Chen Zhili.

Who is Nandita Das Dating?

According to our records, Nandita Das married to Subodh Maskara , Saumya Sen . As of December 1, 2023, Nandita Das’s is not dating anyone.

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In 2002, Das married Saumya Sen. The couple began Leapfrog, a media organisation geared towards making socially conscious ad films. The couple divorced in 2007. After dating Subodh Maskara, a Mumbai industrialist, for a couple of months, she married him on 2 January 2010 and moved to Mumbai. Das and Maskara have a son named Vihaan. In January 2017, the couple announced that they have parted ways.

Facts & Trivia

Nandita Ranked on the list of most popular Movie Actress. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. Nandita Das celebrates birthday on November 7 of every year.

In 2011, she was made Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) by the French Government, one of the nation’s highest civilian awards. She was commended for her “contribution towards the development of Indo-French cooperation in the field of cinema.” In 2009, France released a stamp featuring Das, from artist Titouan Lamazou’s project “Women of the World.”

Is Nandita a Bengali?

She hails from neighbouring Odisha but is often mistaken for a Bengali. “People often think I am Bengali. They say, ‘Didi, amio Bangali’. And I am like, ‘Well that’s great, but I’m not, you see,’” says Nandita Das flashing a million dollar smile.

Is Nandita Das Odia?

Das’ father is the artist Jatin Das, and her mother is Varsha Das, a writer. She was born in Mumbai and grew up mostly in Delhi in an Odia family, where she attended the Sardar Patel Vidyalaya school.

How old is Nandita?

52 years (November 7, 1969)

Where is Nandita Das from?

Mumbai, India

Who is Nandita married to?

Spouse

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