After winning multiple Filmfare awards for her directorial debut, it was a grand homecoming of sorts of Nandita Das in Kolkata which is not really her hometown. Nandita is an Oriya by parentage. But because of the number of films she has done in Bengali she's often mistaken for a Bengali. So it was when she landed in Kolkata last Sunday. Armed ecstatically as she was with her 4 Filmfare awards for Firaaq, the city greeted her with open-armed ovation. "The last film I shot in Kolkata was Paddakhep (Footsteps) with Soumitra Chatterjee," she says from the sets of Onir's Afia. "We're now shooting all over the city." Nandita is naturally overjoyed with the Filmfare awards for Firaaq. "To be honest I was surprised to find Firaaq's nomination in so many categories. It shows that even the popular space is acknowledging a film like Firaaq that tends to be slotted as a niche film.
- 3/9/2010
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
After winning multiple Filmfare awards for her directorial debut, it was a grand homecoming of sorts of Nandita Das in Kolkata which is not really her hometown. Nandita is an Oriya by parentage. But because of the number of films she has done in Bengali she's often mistaken for a Bengali. So it was when she landed in Kolkata last Sunday. Armed ecstatically as she was with her 4 Filmfare awards for Firaaq, the city greeted her with open-armed ovation. "The last film I shot in Kolkata was Paddakhep (Footsteps) with Soumitra Chatterjee," she says from the sets of Onir's Afia. "We're now shooting all over the city." Nandita is naturally overjoyed with the Filmfare awards for Firaaq. "To be honest I was surprised to find Firaaq's nomination in so many categories. It shows that even the popular space is acknowledging a film like Firaaq that tends to be slotted as a niche film.
- 3/9/2010
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
March 9, 2010: After winning multiple Filmfare Awards for her directorial debut, it was a grand homecoming of sorts for Nandita Das in Kolkata, which is not really her hometown. Nandita is an Oriya by parentage. But because of the number of films she has done in Bengali she’s often mistaken for a Bengali. And so it was when she landed in Kolkata last Sunday.
Armed ecstatically as she was with her 4 Filmfare Awards for Firaaq, the ‘City of Joy Mukherjee’ greeted her with open-armed ovation.
“The last film I shot in Kolkata was Paddakhep (Footsteps) with Soumitra Chatterjee,”.
Armed ecstatically as she was with her 4 Filmfare Awards for Firaaq, the ‘City of Joy Mukherjee’ greeted her with open-armed ovation.
“The last film I shot in Kolkata was Paddakhep (Footsteps) with Soumitra Chatterjee,”.
- 3/9/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
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