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The popularity of the movies and acting talent of Nandita Das is not just spread in India but has also reached an international platform. She is an ideal modern day woman who wishes to bring about change in society by altering the old practices and making people conscious. She, through her pick of unusual movies and roles, tries to bring forward the human confusions, emotions and other unnoticed problems. Nandita Das came into silver screen with an Oriya film Parinati in 1996. But people started noticing her after she portrayed a role in Fire by Deepa Mehta. Through the role of Sita, she openly enacted a homosexual individual. Convincingly, she enacts the role of this woman bounded by dilemmas and family pressure, whose desires are ignored by her husband. Her sister-in-law becomes her companion in this confused state as she also undergoes the same situation. Their wish for comfort and mental space makes them accept their relation and they start living together. She has been associated with films that made a difference, which depicted the old conservative in a different manner. Her masters’ in social work and the experience with many NGOs has made her understand the social set up and other systems better. Her characters - some of them being Sanwari, Sajani, Kannaki, Nandini Mitra, Shanta, Shyama - capture various emotions of a woman. Mostly her films are complex their in subjects and are related to an issue. The Gujarat riots in 2002, affected her deeply - how people suffered during and after the riots and how society responded to it. She made Firaaq, the narrative of which was woven by putting together a lot of true stories related to the unfortunate riot. The movie explores the lives of people who are shocked by the violent incident, who have lost someone or who are looking for their loved ones and dear ones. The film fetched several national and international awards for best movie and best script. Nandita Das has acted in Hindi, English, Malayalam, Oriya, Kannada, Telugu, Urdu, Bengali, Marathi and Tamil and won accolades for her acting. Some of the directors of national and international acclaim with whom she worked are Mani Ratnam, Deepa Mehta, Shyam Benegal, Adoor Gopalakrishnan and Mrinal Sen. Other than being an actor, she takes classes in different universities on topics like violence against women, AIDS, problems face by children and involves actively to bring about about social change. She is the chair person of the Children's Film Society in India. Nandita Das is the daughter of writer Varsha and renowned painter Jatin das. After completing her college, she joined a theatre group in New Delhi where she was living, apart from teaching. She got married to Subodh Maskara and they have a son named Vihaan. To get more details on Nandita Das and bollywood videos go to Doctorflix.
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