Manisha Koirala filmography

Koirala in 2012

Manisha Koirala is a Nepalese actress known for her work in Bollywood films. Koirala's debut was in the Nepali film Pheri Bhetaula (1989).^[1] Two years later, she made her Bollywood debut in Subhash Ghai's Saudagar which was a commercial success.^[2][3] However she followed this with appearances in a series of films which performed poorly at the box office including First Love Letter (1991), Anmol (1993), and Dhanwan (1993).^[2] Koirala's career had a turnaround when she starred in Vidhu Vinod Chopra's 1942: A Love Story (1994).^[2][4] Her performance was critically acclaimed and she earned a nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Actress.^[2][4][5] The following year, Koirala received the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress and the Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Tamil for playing a Muslim married to a Hindu during the Bombay Riots in the Mani Ratnam-directed Tamil drama Bombay (1995).^[2][5][6][7]

For portraying the daughter of a mute and deaf couple in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Khamoshi: The Musical (1996) she garnered a consecutive second Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress.^[2][6][8] Koirala followed this with appearances in films including Agni Sakshi (1996), Gupt: The Hidden Truth (1997) which were among the highest grossing of their respective years at the Indian box office.^[9][10] She also played a terrorist opposite Shah Rukh Khan in Ratnam's Dil Se..., the first Indian film to reach the top ten in the United Kingdom box office.^[11] However Koirala also appeared in many films which performed poorly at the box office such as Dil Ke Jharokhe Mein (1997), Achanak (1998) which led to a decline in her film career.^[2][8] She made her television debut as the co-host of Sawaal Dus Crore Ka opposite Anupam Kher. The show did not perform well in terms of ratings and both Kher and Koirala were fired.^[12] For her role in Ram Gopal Verma's 2002 crime thriller Company she received her third Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress.^[13] The following year, she appeared in Escape from Taliban for which Koirala garnered the Bengal Film Journalists' Association Award for Best Actress (Hindi).^[14]

In 2004, she made her debut as a producer with the film Paisa Vasool. The following year, Koirala starred as Mughal princess Jahan Ara in the historical drama Taj Mahal: An Eternal Love Story.^[15] In 2008, she played the eponymous role in the film Tulsi, a Hindi remake of the Telugu drama Matru Devo Bhava and starred in Rituparno Ghosh's Khela. Two years later Koirala appeared in the Malayalam drama Elektra. In 2012, she reteamed with Ram Gopal Verma on the horror sequel Bhoot Returns. Later in the year, she took a break from acting after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer. After six months of treatment, Koirala was given the all clear.^[16][17] In 2015, she returned to acting with the psychological thriller Chehere: A Modern Day Classic.^[18]

Film

Koirala in 2008

Film	Year	Role(s)	Director(s)	Language	Notes	Ref(s)
Pheri Bhetaula	1989		Phurpa Chhiring Gurung	Nepali		[1]
Saudagar	1991	Radha	Subhash Ghai	Hindi		[1] [19]
First Love Letter	1991	Radha Singh	Shiva	Hindi		[20]
Yalgaar	1992	Meghna Kumar	Feroz Khan	Hindi		[21]
Insaaniyat Ke Devta	1993	Nisha	K. C. Bokadia	Hindi		[22]
Anmol	1993	Anmol	Ketan Desai	Hindi		[23]
Dhanwan	1993	Imli	Kasinathuni Viswanath	Hindi		[24]
Yun Hi Kabhi	1994	Pooja	Kumar Bhatia	Hindi		[25]
Milan	1994	Priya	Mahesh Bhatt	Hindi		[26]
1942: A Love Story	1994	Rajeshwari Pathak	Vidhu Vinod Chopra	Hindi		[27]
Sangdil Sanam	1994	Sanam	Shomu Mukherjee	Hindi		[28]
Criminal	1995	Swetha	Mahesh Bhatt	Hindi Telugu	Simultaneously filmed in both Hindi and Telugu.	[29] [30]
Bombay	1995	Shaila Bano	Mani Ratnam	Tamil	Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Tamil	[2][5]
Anokha Andaz	1995	Reema	Lawrence D'Souza	Hindi		[31]
Guddu	1995	Salina Gupta	Prem Lalwani	Hindi		[32]
Ram Shastra	1995	Anjali Sinha	Sanjay Gupta	Hindi		[33]
Akele Hum Akele Tum	1995	Kiran Kumar	Mansoor Khan	Hindi		[34] [35]
Dushmani: A Violent Love Story	1995	Sapna Oberoi	Bunty Soorma	Hindi		[36]
Agni Sakshi	1996	Shubhangi Madhu	Partho Ghosh	Hindi		[37]
Majhdhaar	1996	Radha Rai	Esmayeel Shroff	Hindi		[38]
Indian	1996	Ishwarya	S. Shankar	Tamil Hindi	Hindi title: Hindustani	[39] [40] [41]
Khamoshi: The Musical	1996	Annie	Sanjay Leela Bhansali	Hindi	Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress	[42] [6]
Sanam	1997	Sanam	Aziz Sejawal	Hindi		[43]
Gupt: The Hidden Truth	1997	Sheetal Choudhry	Rajiv Rai	Hindi		[44]
Dil Ke Jharokhe Mein	1997	Suman	Ashim Bhattcharya	Hindi		[45]
Yugpurush	1998	Sunita	Partho Ghosh	Hindi		[46]
Achanak	1998	Pooja	Naresh Malhotra	Hindi		[47]
Dil Se..	1998	Meghna	Mani Ratnam	Hindi		[48]
Maharaja	1998	Shaili Mathur	Anil Sharma	Hindi		[49] [50]
Kachche Dhaage	1999	Rukhsana	Milan Luthria	Hindi		[51] [52]
Lal Baadshah	1999	Kiran	K. C. Bokadia	Hindi		[53]
Laawaris	1999	Anshu Mehra	Shrikant Sharma	Hindi		[54]
Jai Hind	1999	Sheetal	Manoj Kumar	Hindi		[55]
Mudhalvan	1999	Thenmozhi	S. Shankar	Tamil	Dubbed in Telugu as Oke Okkadu Remade in Hindi as Nayak	[56] [57]
Kartoos	1999	Manpreet "Mini" Kaur	Mahesh Bhatt	Hindi		[58]
Mann	1999	Priya Verma	Indra Kumar	Hindi		[59]
Hindustan Ki Kasam	1999	Roshanaara	Veeru Devgan	Hindi		[60]
Khauff	2000	Neha	Sanjay Gupta	Hindi		[61]
Baaghi	2000	Rani	Rajesh Kumar Singh	Hindi		[62] [63]
Raja Ko Rani Se Pyar Ho Gaya	2000	Manisha	T. K. Rajeev Kumar	Hindi		[64]
Champion	2000	Sapna Khanna	Padam Kumar	Hindi		[65] [66]
Grahan	2001	Parvati Shastri	Shashilal K. Nair	Hindi		[67]
Chhupa Rustam: A Musical Thriller	2001	Nisha	Aziz Sejawal	Hindi		[68]
Lajja	2001	Vaidehi	Rajkumar Santoshi	Hindi		[69]
Aalavandhan	2001	Sharmilee	Suresh Krissna	Tamil Hindi	Simultaneously filmed in Tamil and Hindi. Hindi title: Abhay	[70] [71]
Moksha	2001	Ritika Sanyal	Ashok Mehta	Hindi		[72]
Company	2002	Saroja	Ram Gopal Verma	Hindi	Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress (tied with Rani Mukherji for Saathiya)	[73] [13]
Jaani Dushman: Ek Anokhi Kahani	2002	Vasundhara Divya	Rajkumar Kohli	Hindi		[74]
Ek Chotisi Love Story	2002	The Woman	Shashilal K. Nair	Hindi		[75]
Baba	2002	Chamundeswari	Suresh Krissna	Tamil		[76]
Escape from Taliban	2003	Sushmita Bannerjee Sayed Kamal	Ujjal Chattopadhyaya	Hindi		[77]
Calcutta Mail	2003	Sanjana	Sudhir Mishra	Hindi		[78]
Market	2003	Muskaan Bano	Jai Prakash	Hindi		[79] [80]
Paisa Vasool	2004	Maria	Bhashyam	Hindi	Producer	[81]
Tum – A Dangerous Obsession	2004	Kamini	Aruna Raje	Hindi		[82]
Chaahat - Ek Nasha	2005	Mallika Arora	Jai Prakash	Hindi		[83]
Mumbai Express	2005	Ahalya	Singeetam Srinivasa Rao	Tamil Hindi	Simultaneously filmed in both Tamil and Hindi. Hindi title: Mumbai Xpress	[84] [85]
Taj Mahal: An Eternal Love Story	2005	Jahan Ara	Akbar Khan	Hindi		[86] [87]
Anjaane – The Unknown	2005	Shivani	Harry W. Fernandes	Hindi		[88]
Darwaza Bandh Rakho	2006	Julie	J. D. Chakravarthy	Hindi		[89]
Anwar	2007	Anita	Manish Jha	Hindi		[90]
Tulsi	2008	Tulsi	Ajay Kumar	Hindi	Remake of Telugu film Matru Devo Bhava	[91] [92]
Nagaram	2008	Item number	Srinivas C. C.	Telugu		[93]
Sirf....Life Looks Greener on the Other Side	2008	Devika	Rajaatesh Nayar	Hindi		[94]
Mehbooba	2008	Varsha Payal	Tabrez Hashmi Afzal Khan	Hindi		[95]
Khela	2008	Sheela	Rituparno Ghosh	Bengali		[96]
Do Paise Ki Dhoop, Chaar Aane Ki Baarish	2009	Juhi	Deepti Naval	Hindi		[97]
Ek Second... Jo Zindagi Badal De?	2010	Rashi	Partho Ghosh	Hindi		[98]
Dharmaa	2010	Gauri	Dipendra K. Khanal	Nepali		[99]
Elektra	2010	Diana	Shyamaprasad	Malayalam		[100]
Mappillai	2011	Rajeswari	Suraj	Tamil		[101]
I Am	2011	Rubaina	Onir	Hindi		[102]
Bhoot Returns	2012	Namrata	Ram Gopal Verma	Hindi		[103]
Chehere: A Modern Day Classic	2015	Tarana	Rohit Kaushik	Hindi		[104]
Edavappathy	2016		Lenin Rajendran	Malayalam
Oru Melliya Kodu	2016	TBA	A. M. R. Ramesh	Tamil Kannada	Simultaneously filmed in both Tamil and Kannada. Kannada title: Game Post-production	[105] [106] [107] [108]

Television

Title	Year	Role	Notes	Ref.
Sawaal Dus Crore Ka	2000	Co-host		[12]
Larger Than Life	2003	Herself	Documentary	[109]
Femina Miss India 2015	2015	Judge		[110]

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External links

• Manisha Koirala at the Internet Movie Database