Geetanjali Thapa
| Geetanjali Thapa | |
|---|---|
| Born | Gangtok, Sikkim |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2011-present |
| Awards |
Best Performance, Los Angeles Film Festival 2013.[1] Best Actress, ImagineIndia 2013, Madrid.[2] Best Actress, 61st National Film Award.[3] Best Actress, 14th Annual New York Indian Film Festival.[4] |
Geetanjali Thapa is an Indian film actress. She won the National Film Award for Best Actress (2013) for her performance in Liar's Dice.[3]
Thapa was born and brought up in Sikkim. She did her schooling in Sikkim and thereafter moved to Kolkata for graduation, where she was a model before joining films.[5][6][7] She won the Mega Miss North East 2007 beauty pageant held at Guwahati, Assam.[8]
Thapa’s debut short English film was Myth (2006) that was made in Sikkim, directed by Prashant Rasaily, when she was still in school. Her first Hindi film Tina Ki Chaabi (2010) was not released.[9][10] Her next film I.D. directed by Kamal K.M. got her two international awards for best actress — at the Los Angeles Film Festival and the Madrid Film Festival.[11] Meanwhile she did several TV commercials, including a L'Oreal ad with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.[7]
In Liar's Dice, Geetanjali plays a courageous and somewhat recklessly irresponsible woman from the high Himalayas and mother to a precocious little daughter in search of her missing husband.[12]
Thapa also stars in the Academy award winning director Danis Tanovic's Indian film, Tigers, along with Emraan Hashmi, where she plays a Pakistani woman.[13][14]
Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | I.D. | Charu | Best Performance, Los Angeles Film Festival 2013[1]
Best Actress, ImagineIndia Award 2013, Madrid[2] |
| 2013 | Monsoon Shootout | Anu | |
| 2013 | That Day After Every Day | Girl who hits the 'goon in the bus' | |
| 2014 | Liar's Dice | Kamla | Best Actress, 61st National Film Award[3]
Best Actress, 14th Annual New York Indian Film Festival[4] |
| 2016 | Tigers | Zainab | 2014 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)[15] |
References
- 1 2 "20th LA Film Fest Award". Retrieved 2014-06-29.
- 1 2 "ImagineIndia 13th International Film Festival Award". Retrieved 2014-06-29.
- 1 2 3 "61st National Film Awards Announced" (PDF) (Press release). Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. Retrieved 16 April 2014.
- 1 2 "14th Annual New York Indian Film Festival". Retrieved 2014-06-29.
- ↑ "Geetanjali Thapa on being low-key and letting her work speak". The Telegraph. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
- ↑ "Interview: Geetanjali Thapa, Actor [I.D., Monsoon Shootout]". DearCinema.com. July 15, 2013. Retrieved 2014-04-20.
- 1 2 Shaheen Parkar (28 Sep 2014). "Yet to learn how things work in Bollywood: Geetanjali Thapa". MiD DAY. Retrieved 2014-10-20.
- ↑ "Geetanjali Thapa wins Mega Miss North East".
- ↑ "Outsider Insider". The Indian Express. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
- ↑ "Geetanjali Thapa: With love from Sikkim". iSikkim. October 14, 2010. Retrieved 2014-04-20.
- ↑ "I auditioned for White Lies so I could meet Danis: Geetanjali Thapa". The Times of India. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
- ↑ "Liar's Dice: Mumbai Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
- ↑ "Making a Mark". India Today. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
- ↑ Ankur Pathak (Sep 6, 2014). "Geetanjali Thapa: I wouldn’t want to be cast just because I’m a 'North Easterner'". The Times of India. Retrieved 2014-10-20.
- ↑ "Tigers". TIFF. Retrieved 2014-10-20.