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Churni Ganguly (née Banerjee) is an India actress and writer-director who mainly works in Bengali language movies and television productions. She won the prestigious Onida Pinnacle Award for Best Actress National in 1995. Churni received the Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards in 2005 in the best actress category for the movie Waarish, in which she played a single-mother's role. As a writer-director, she won two National Film Awards for Nirbashito and Tarikh.
After spending her childhood in Kurseong, Churni came to Kolkata and got admitted at the Jadavpur University. While studying English at Jadavpur University, she joined a theatre group as an actress. Then she moved to Mumbai and acted in a few television serials for Balaji Motion Pictures. Later, she returned to Kolkata and started working in Bengali films.
Churni was a top student of Jadavpur University when she became a part of Aurat. In 1987, she started a theatre troupe with Suman Mukhopadhyay and her future husband, National Award-winning filmmaker Kaushik Ganguly. Kaushik Ganguly and Churni got married in January 1993. They have a son – actor Ujaan Ganguly.
In 2005, Ganguly acted in the film Shunyo E Buke, directed by Kaushik Ganguly. In this film, she portrayed a flat-chested woman's role and the film attempted to explore male sexual fantasy.
In 2008, Ganguly acted in Anjan Dutt's Chalo Let's Go. This was Ganguly's first feature film in which she acted under the direction of someone other than Kaushik Ganguly. The film was a travelogue and narrated a story of a journey with nine passengers. Ganguly played the character of Miss Ganguly, a sophisticated writer. But in the film, her fellow passengers used to call her "Miss Gombhir".
In the 2010 film Arekti Premer Golpo, Ganguly played the character of Rani/Gopa. In this film, Rituparno Ghosh and Indraneil Sengupta acted in lead roles and the film revolved around a homosexual relationship.
In 2012, Ganguly acted in two Bengali movies— Laptop, directed by Kaushik Ganguly and Arjun – Kalimpong E Sitaharan, directed by Prem Modi. The film Laptop told some stories related to some different people, connected by one single laptop. On the other hand, Arjun – Kalimpong E Sitaharan was a detective film based on Samaresh Majumdar's literary character Arjun.
The 2013 film Shabdo, directed by Kaushik Ganguly, was widely appreciated by critics and is remains as a landmark film. The story of the film revolved around Tarak, a Foley artist of Bengali film industry. In this film, Ganguly played the role of Tarak's psychiatrist.
Ganguly signed Kaushik Ganguly's C/O Sir for the role of Mrs Chatterjee. Later, as she was having problem with dates, she was replaced by another actress Sudipta Chakraborty.
She also acted in Bakita Byaktigato, directed by Pradipta Bhattacharya. This film shot like a documentary, the film traces a man's quest for love as per critics review. Pramit, an amateur documentary filmmaker, is tired of girls rejecting his propositions. Prem ki? Ki kore prem hoye? Troubled by such questions, he takes it upon himself to solve the puzzle anyhow. And this time around, he plans to make a documentary film on love.
Actor Churni Ganguly debuts as a director in Nirbashito, a bilingual film in Bengali and English, shot in Kolkata and Sweden. After many snuffed-out attempts by several filmmakers, for the first time a film on Taslima Nasrin's life was released at the ongoing Mumbai International Film Festival. The film — Nirbashito (Banished) — is inspired by Taslima and her cat, Minu. In the film directed by Churni Ganguly, Minu is called Baghini (tigress). The author is, however, not named anywhere in the film. This film won the Best Bengali film award and the sound designer trophy at the 62nd National Film Awards category. NDTV Movies
For her second directorial, Tarikh, she received the National Award again - this time for Best Dialogue. Moreover, Tarikh was one of the two films selected for the prestigious BRICS Film Festival in 2021, hosted in Rio de Janeiro.
| 1997 | Lav Kush | V. Madhusudhana Rao | Mandavi | Jaya Prada, Aditi Chatterjee |
| Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, Debashree Roy | ||||
| Kaushik Sen, Kharaj Mukherjee | ||||
| Indrani Halder, Sudip Mukherjee | ||||
| Rudranil Ghosh, Saswata Chatterjee, Parambrata Chatterjee | ||||
| Taranga Sarkar, Chhabi Talukdar, Paulomi De, Monu Mukhopadhyay | ||||
| Rituparno Ghosh, Indraneil Sengupta, Raima Sen | ||||
| Saswata Chatterjee, Ridhima Ghosh, Gaurav Chatterjee, Gaurav Chakraborty, Tanaji Dasgupta, Indrasheesh Ray | ||||
| Rahul Bose, Saswata Chatterjee, Ananya Chatterjee, Gaurav Chakrabarty | ||||
| Dipankar De, Om (actor) | ||||
| Raima Sen, Victor Banerjee, Ritwick Chakraborty | ||||
| Bakita Byaktigato | Pradipta Bhattacharya | Ritwick Chakraborty, Aparajita Ghosh Das, Madhabi Mukherjee, Debesh Roy Choudhury, Supriyo Dutta, Monu Mukherjee, Sudipa Basu, Amit Saha and Kaushik Roy | ||
| Churni Ganguly, Saswata Chatterjee, Raima Sen, Lars Bethke, Lia Boysen, Martin Wallstrom, Joakim Granberg & others | ||||
| Abir Chatterjee, Koyel Mallick, Priyanka Sarkar | ||||
| Prosenjit Chatterjee, Kaushik Ganguly, Rituparna Sengupta | ||||
| 2019 | Tarikh | Ritwick Chakraborty, Saswata Chatterjee, Raima Sen, Kaushik Ganguly | ||
| 2021 | Anusandhan | Kamaleswar Mukherjee | Saswata Chatterjee, Payel Sarkar, Joydip Mukherjee | |
| 2022 | Lokkhi Chele | Kaushik Ganguly | Ujaan Ganguly, Babul Supriyo | |
| 2022 | Shubho Bijoya | Rohan Sen | Bonny Sengupta, Koushani Mukherjee, Kaushik Ganguly | |
| 2023 | Kaberi Antardhan | Kaushik Ganguly | Prosenjit Chatterjee, Srabanti Chatterjee | |
| Ardhangini | Jaya Ahsan | |||
| Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani | Karan Johar | Anjali Chatterjee | Ranveer Singh, Alia Bhatt, Tota Roy Chowdhury |
| 1996 | Onida Pinnacle Award | Best Actress at the National Level | ||
| 2005 | BFJA Awards | Best actress in a leading role | Waarish | |
| Kalakar Awards | ||||
| 2015 | National Film Awards | Best Feature Film in Bengali | Nirbasito | |
| 2016 | Zee Cine Awards | Best Actress | Nirbasito | |
| 2019 | National Film Award for Best Dialogues | Tarikh at the 66th National Film Awards | ||
| 2024 | West Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards | Best Actress | Ardhangini | |
| 7th Filmfare Awards Bangla | Best Actress in a Leading Role | |||
| Tele Cine Award | Best Actress | |||
| IBEA Award | Best Actress in a Leading Role Critics | |||
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