Nandita Das

கன்னத்தில் முத்தமிட்டாள்

Mani Ratnam

R. Madhavan, Simran

A little girl is told by her parents that she is adopted. Determined to find her birth mother, her family eventually agrees to take her to Sri Lanka, where they encounter the militant group known as the Tamil Tigers.

Parinati

Prakash Jha

Basant Josalkar, Surekha Sikri

Based on a folk tale from Rajasthan, "Parinati" deals with the inherent tragedy of human avarice, which must inevitably lead to self-destruction. Ganesh, the protagonist, is a potter who leads a happy and contented life in a remote village. The only ambition he and his wife Kurjan share is to get their only son Laxman married and bring a daughter-in- law home. Destiny, however, has ordained otherwise. Ganesh is hand picked for his honesty and dedication by a local charitable Seth to become the caretaker of his inn in the middle of the desert. There, Ganesh and Kurjan meet a wealthy couple, who are greatly pleased with their service and hospitality. They offer to take their son Laxman to distant lands, teach him trade and make him fabulously rich.

Khamosh Adalat Jaari Hai

Ritesh Menon

Nandita Das, Saurabh Shukla

A mock trial during the rehearsal of a play quickly turns into a gripping drama about desire, gender issues, power and control, this is an adaptation of playwright Vijay Tendulkar's Shantata. Court Chalu Aahe (1963).

Subho Mahurat

Rituparno Ghosh

Sharmila Tagore, Rakhee Gulzar

An actress mysteriously dies after the "Shubho Mahurat," a celebration of the first shot of the film. A journalist and her perceptive aunt investigate.

हज़ार चौरासी की माँ

Govind Nihalani

Jaya Bachchan, Anupam Kher

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 and is now attending college. His parents are proud of him, and keep track of his progress. Then their world is shattered during the early hours, when they are informed by the police that Brati has been killed.

Aamaar Bhuvan

Mrinal Sen

Nandita Das, Koushik Sen

After Shokhina's marriage to Noor ends, she remarries Meher but faces many complications in her married life. Things get worse when Noor returns to India as a married rich man.

Earth

Deepa Mehta

Aamir Khan, Nandita Das

It's 1947 and the borderlines between India and Pakistan are being drawn. A young girl bears witnesses to tragedy as her ayah is caught between the love of two men and the rising tide of political and religious violence.

Ramchand Pakistani

Mehreen Jabbar

Nandita Das, Rashid Farooqi

Based on a actual events, the story is about a Pakistani Hindu boy and his father who accidentally cross the border into India from their village in Pakistan at a time of extreme war like tension between the 2 countries and end up spending 5 years in an Indian prison while the mother left behind wonders what has happened to them.

Hari Bhari

Shyam Benegal

Rajit Kapoor, Rajeshwari Sachdev

Family Planning issues in a Muslim Hyderabadi family struggling between new and old values

Rockford

Nagesh Kukunoor

Nandita Das, Nagesh Kukunoor

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 would look extremely abusive to the viewer.

फ़िराक

Nandita Das

Naseeruddin Shah, Paresh Rawal

Firaaq is an Urdu word that means both separation and quest. The film is a work of fiction, based on a thousand stories. The story is set over a 24-hour period, one month after a campaign that took place in Gujarat, India, in 2002. It traces the emotional journey of ordinary people- some who were victims, some perpetrators and some who choose to watch silently.

Kamli

K.N.T. Sastry

Nandita Das, Tanikella Bharani

Kamli was actually inspired by a K.N.T. Sastry's award winning documentary harvesting babies. K.N.T. Sastry wanted to make a feature film based on the documentary about the plight of tribal women selling their babies for a pittance. He actually contacted and wanted to make film with Soundarya as the main female lead of Kamli, but she died in a helicopter crash, and finally made the film with Nandita Das.

நீர்ப்பறவை

Seenu Ramasamy

Vishnu Vishal, Sunaina

A skeleton is found at the home of Esther (Nandita Das), whose fisherman husband Arulappasamy (Vishnu) has been missing for the past 25 years. Esther confesses that it was she who murdered her husband but when Agnes (Varsha), the cop assigned to the case, lends a sympathetic ear, she narrates a heart wrenching tale of a loving family ruined by the politics of territorial waters.

Manto

Nandita Das

Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Rasika Dugal

In Bombay's seedy-shiny film world, Manto and his stories are widely read and accepted. But as sectarian violence engulfs the nation, Manto makes the difficult choice of leaving his beloved Bombay. In Lahore, he finds himself bereft of friends and unable to find takers for his writings.

அழகி

Thangar Bachan

Parthiban, Nandita Das

Shanmugam meets his childhood sweetheart after many years and employs her as his housemaid as she urgently needs a job. However, his wife creates problems when she learns about their relationship.

Ek Alag Mausam

Nandita Das, Rajit Kapoor

A movie about an Indian woman who finds out that she is HIV positive.