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Karuna Banerjee

Name in Native Language: "করুণা বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়" (Bengali/BN)
Actress | * 12/25/1919 († 81, 11/13/2001) | Kolkata (India)
Karuna Banerjee (Bengali: করুণা ব্যানার্জী) (25 December 1919 – 13 November 2001) was a Bengali actress best known for her role in Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy (1955–1959) as the long suffering mother, Sarbajaya. She was nominated for Best Actress at the 1959 BAFTA Awards for her performance in Aparajito (1956), the second part of The Apu Trilogy. She appeared in a number of other films after that, including Ray's Devi (1960) and Kanchenjungha (1962). ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | History | Kids & Family

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Aparajito picks up where the first film leaves off, with Apu and his family having moved away from the country to live in the bustling holy city of Varanasi (then known as Benares). As Apu progresses ...

Aparajito

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1956 | 4.0/5 | 1h 50min
Drama, History
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Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work. ...

Pather Panchali

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1955 | 4.1/5 | 2h 5min
Drama, History
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Played out in real time, several complex family dramas intersect in the landscape of the Himalayan foothills, allowing the Bengali auteur to examine the class and generational differences of postcolon ...

Kanchenjungha

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1962 | 3.7/5 | 1h 42min
Drama
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Movies with Karuna Banerjee as Actress(8)

as (Archive Footage)2014 Apur Panchali
1972 Calcutta 71
1971 Interview
as Labanya Roy Chaudhuri1962 Kanchenjungha
as Harasundari1960 Devi
as Labanya1958 Headmaster
as Sarbojaya Ray1956 Aparajito
as Sarbojaya Ray1955 Pather Panchali

Citizenship: India
Born: Thursday, 12/25 1919 (December) in Kolkata (India)
Died: Tuesday, 11/13 2001 (November) in Kolkata (aged: 81)
Zodiac sign: Capricorn (Chinese zodiac sign: Goat)
Languages: Bengali (BN)
Educated at: University of Calcutta, Jogamaya Devi College
Other names for Karuna Banerjee (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Karuna Banerji"
"Karuna Bandopadhyay"
"Karuna Bandyopadhyay"
"Kanu Bannerjee"
Karuna Banerjee frequently works together with these people:
Satyajit Ray (14x, Crew)
Bansi Chandragupta (7x, Crew)
Mrinal Sen (4x, Crew)
Dulal Dutta (4x, Crew)
Subrata Mitra (4x, Crew)
Chhabi Biswas (3x, Actor)
Kanu Bannerjee (3x, Actor)
Kaushik Ganguly (3x, Crew)
Runki Banerjee (2x, Cast)
Nityananda Datta (2x, Crew)
Nemai Ghosh (2x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:1108431, Added: 12/18/2018, Last updated: 04/13/2024