Nandita Das

Nandita Das is an actor and director one of the leading figures in the Indian film industry She has acted in more than 40 feature films in ten different languages Das has been acclaimed 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 was with Firaaq 2008 which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival traveled to more than 50 festivals and won more than 20 awards