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Tannishtha Chatterjee  is Meera

With an eye on her career, beautiful divorcee and mother of one, for Meera love is the last thing on her mind despite the best efforts of her interfering family.

 

Multi award-winning actress Tannishtha Chatterjee gained international attention for her performance in Sarah Gavron’s celebrated feature Brick Lane, which saw her nominated as Best Actress at the British Independent Film Awards alongside Judi Dench and Anne Hathaway.

 

With a stellar career in film, her credits include Academy award-winning German director Florian Gallenberger’s Shadows of Time, Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina and Bombay Summer for which she received the Best Actress award at the New York Indian Film Festival.

 

Her critically acclaimed performance in Dekh Indian Circus saw her receive Best Actress awards in a number of film festivals including India's National Film Award. She also appeared in Monsoon Shootout, which premiered at a midnight screening in Official Selection at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.   Tannishtha also starred in the recently released Siddharth, which was in Official Selection at both the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals, amongst others.

 

Most recently, Tannishtha appeared in the film Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain alongside Martin Sheen, Mischa Barton, Kal Penn and Rapjal Yadav.  She is currently shooting the feature Lion! starring Nicole Kidman and Dev Patel.