Cast: Nandita Das

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Nandita Das. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Earth

1998 · Movie · 110 min. · India

Direction Deepa Mehta

Cast Aamir Khan · Maia Sethna · Nandita Das · Kulbhushan Kharbanda

Synopsis The movie opens in Lahore of 1947 before India and Pakistan became independent. It is a cosmopolitan city, depicted by the coterie of working class friends who are from different religions. The rest of the movie chronicles the fate of...

7.3

434 votes

7.3

434 votes

Fire

1996 · Movie · 104 min. · India

Direction Deepa Mehta

Cast Shabana Azmi · Kulbhushan Kharbanda · Nandita Das · Ranjit Chowdhry

Synopsis In New Delhi, Sita, a beautiful and intelligent young woman embarks on an arranged, loveless marriage to a faithless husband, Jatin. The extended family, owners of a video store, live together according to custom. Family tensions escalate. Radha, Sita's sister-in-law,...

7.1

1K votes

7.1

1K votes

Before the Rains

2007 · Movie · 98 min. · India

Direction Santosh Sivan

Cast Linus Roache · Rahul Bose · Nandita Das · Jennifer Ehle

Synopsis A English spice baron settles in South India during the waning years of the Raj.

5.8

82 votes

5.8

82 votes

Traces of Sandalwood

2014 · Movie · 95 min. · Spain

Direction María Ripoll

Cast Nandita Das · Aina Clotet · Naby Dakhli · Rosa Novell

Synopsis Pain is universal. But so is hope. A story of hope and love across Mumbai and Barcelona; from India to the Mediterranean and all the way back.

5.8

1K votes

5.8

1K votes

Provoked: A True Story

2006 · Movie · 113 min. · India

Direction Jag Mundhra

Cast Aishwarya Rai · Miranda Richardson · Naveen Andrews · Nandita Das

Synopsis Provoked is the true story of Kiranjit Ahluwalia, a Punjabi woman who moved to London after her marriage with Deepak Ahluwalia. Her husband seemed caring at first but then began to beat her up. He started drinking a lot and...

5.8

389 votes

5.8

389 votes

Ziddi Girls

2025 · Series · India

Direction Shonali Bose · Vasant Nath · Neha Sharma

Cast Shivangi Vyas · Gaurangi Vyas · Niharika Kundu · Deeya Damini

Synopsis Five self-absorbed Gen Z freshers enter Matilda House College, bonding over a year of turmoil, romance, and personal growth as they fiercely defend their school against external threats.

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Biswaprakash

1999 · Movie · 148 min. · India

Direction Susant Misra

Cast Binyaka · Anu Choudhury · Carman Cordwell · Nandita Das

Synopsis On his journey to self realization, Biswaparakash faces a changing value system in a new consumerist culture and that conflict with his beliefs, values and traditions.

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Reflection

2001 · Movie · 184 min. · India

Direction Rakesh Omprakash Mehra

Cast Amitabh Bachchan · Raveena Tandon · Manoj Bajpayee · Nandita Das

Synopsis Aks is the story of a hunter and his prey. A cop and a killer. Aks is the story of Manu Verma and Raghuvan. The story begins in the heart of Budapest. The Indian Defence minister is on a routine...

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Laawaris

1981 · Movie · India

Direction Prakash Mehra

Cast Shreeram Lagoo · Zeenat Aman · Amitabh Bachchan · Ranjeet

Synopsis Left in the care of an alcoholic Gangu Ganpat (Shreeram Lagoo), young Heera, who named himself after a stray dog, wrestles with life in his young age. Years later, now a young man (Amitabh Bachchan), he works for Mahendar Singh...

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Oonga

2013 · Movie · 98 min. · India

Direction Devashish Makhija

Cast Raju Singh · Priyanka Bose · Vipin Sharma · Nandita Das

Synopsis Little tribal boy runs off on a long journey to the big city to watch the Ramayana that his friends saw but he missed, unaware that his little village is being forced to give up its land for bauxite mining.

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Ramchand Pakistani

2009 · Movie · 100 min. · Pakistan

Direction Mehreen Jabbar

Cast Shahood Alvi · Nandita Das · Rashid Farooqi · Nouman Ijaz

Synopsis A 7 year old Pakistani boy and his father belonging to the untouchable Hindu caste accidentally cross the border and spend years in an Indian jail while the mother on the other side doesn't know what has happened to them.

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Fleeting Beauty (S)

2004 · Movie · 10 min. · New Zealand

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I Am

2011 · Movie · 110 min. · India

Direction Onir

Cast Juhi Chawla · Manisha Koirala · Rahul Bose · Nandita Das

Synopsis This film is composed by four short stories about four different issues and based in real cases: " Iam Magha, about the plight of Kashmiri Pandits, " Abhimanyu", about the chil abuse, " Omar", about the gay rights and "...

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Virata Parvam

2022 · Movie · 151 min. · India

Direction Venu Udugula

Cast Chakrapani Ananda · Bhenarjee · Sai Chand · Jay Chandra

Synopsis Virata Parvam is a romantic action thriller based on the naxalite insurgency that sprung up in Andhra Pradesh during the last decade of 20th century.

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Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa

1998 · Movie · 186 min. · India

Direction Govind Nihalani

Cast Jaya Bhaduri · Anupam Kher · Seema Biswas · Joy Sengupta

Synopsis Dibyanath Chatterji, his bank-employed wife, Sujata, and only child, a son, Brati, live a middle-class existence in Calcutta, West Bengal, India, circa early 1970s. Sujata is a quiet, devout Hindu, religious, and compassionate woman, and Brati has finished his school...

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Four women

2007 · Movie · 105 min. · India

Direction Adoor Gopalakrishnan

Cast Padmapriya · Geethu Mohandas · Manju Pillai · Nandita Das

Synopsis A drama centered around four women at Kuttanad in Kerala's Alappuzha district.

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A Peck on the Cheek

2002 · Movie · 123 min. · India

Direction Mani Ratnam

Cast Madhavan · Simran · Prakash Raj · Nandita Das

Synopsis Amudha (Keerthana) is an eight-year-old girl who learns from her adopted family that her real mother and father were separated by a war.

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Rockford

1999 · Movie · 102 min. · India

Direction Nagesh Kukunoor

Cast Rohan Dey · Jayant Kripalani · Nandita Das · Ulrika Krishnamurti

Synopsis The movie chronicles the arrival of a (Hindu) student to a strict all-boys Christian boarding school in India and his assimilation into the school. The change is quite dramatic to the protagonist and there are a lot of events that...

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