Nick Name: Koko
Date of Birth (Birthday): 3 December, 1979
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius
Height: 5'1"”
Hair Color: Black
Birth Place: New Delhi, India
Religion: Agnostic
Marital Status: Commited
Hobbies: Graphology
Date of Birth (Birthday): 3 December, 1979
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius
Height: 5'1"”
Hair Color: Black
Birth Place: New Delhi, India
Religion: Agnostic
Marital Status: Commited
Hobbies: Graphology
Making her debut as a child artist in the film Indira (1983), Sharma debuted as an adult in the Bengali thriller Ek Je Aachhe Kanya (2000). She first gained attention with the English-language film Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (2002), which was directed by her mother, and received the National Film Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film. Her appearance in the drama Page 3
(2005) got her wider recognition from audiences, and she has since
starred in a number of films, most of which have garnered her critical
praise rather than commercial success. She won two consecutive Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Awards for her performances in Omkara (2006) and Life in a... Metro (2007), respectively. Her performance in the former won her a second National Award under the Best Supporting Actress category.[1][2]
Sen Sharma is the daughter of Mukul Sharma (a science writer and journalist) and Aparna Sen (an actress and film director). She also has an older sibling Kamalini Chatterjee.[3] Sen Sharma's maternal grandfather, Chidananda Dasgupta, is a film critic, scholar, professor, writer and one of the co-founders of the Calcutta Film Society. Her late grandmother Supriya Dasgupta was a cousin of legendary modern Bengali poet Jibanananda Das.
Sen Sharma has a degree in English from St Stephen's College, Delhi which she received in 2001. She was a student of the Modern High School for Girls, Calcutta, as well as the Calcutta International School.[4]
Sen Sharma made her debut as a child artist in the film Indirah (1983). In 2000, she made her adult debut in the Bengali film Ek Je Aachhe Kanya, in which she played a negative character. It was followed by a role in Rituparno Ghosh's acclaimed film Titli, opposite Mithun Chakraborty and her mother Aparna Sen.
In 2001, she starred in the English-language film Mr. and Mrs. Iyer,
directed by Aparna Sen. The film performed well mainly in multiplexes
and was a major critical success. Sen Sharma's performance as a Tamil housewife and her mastery of the accent were received well and she was awarded the National Film Award for Best Actress.[5] Her performance was later included in the 2010 issue of the "Top 80 Iconic Performances" by Filmfare.[6]
"What´s special about her performance as Meenakshi Iyer is not the
effort she put into it as much as the apparent lack of it. [...] Be it
her squabbling with the urbane photographer Jehangir Chaudhary or her
gently reprimanding him about how her name is pronounced (It's
Mee-naa-kshi not Minakshi) or even when she is screaming at her infant,
you believe it's Meenakshi you´ve met. And therein lies the key to her
iconic performance."
—Filmfare on Sen Sharma's performance in Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (2002)[7]
This was followed by the National Film Award-winning social film, Page 3 (2005).[8] Her role of a smart journalist drew praise and she became a more familiar face to the movie-going public.
Sen Sharma was offered the lead role in Mira Nair's Hollywood film, The Namesake (2007), but owing to clashing dates with other films, she could not commit to the project.[9] However, she followed it with acclaimed performances as a mentally ill woman in 15 Park Avenue (2005) and as a middle age village woman in Omkara (2006). For the latter, she received both the Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award and the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her next release Deadline: Sirf 24 Ghante (2006) got average reviews. In 2006, Sen Sharma made her directorial debut with an 18-minute Bengali short film titled Naamkoron (Naming Ceremony) for the Kala Ghoda Film Festival.[10][11]
Following this, Sen Sharma acted in Dosar, a Bengali art film by Rituporno Ghosh
which was premiered at several international film festivals. She won
the Best Actress award at Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council (MIAAC)
Film Festival for her performance.[12]
Her first release of 2007 was her second collaboration with Madhur Bhandarkar, a noir film named Traffic Signal, in which she played a street prostitute.[13] Later that year, she appeared in Anurag Basu's Life in a... Metro. The film opened to positive reviews and performed well at the Indian box office.[14] Metro
depicted the lives of different individuals in Mumbai, and Sen Sharma's
performance as a young and insecure woman earned her a second Filmfare Award.
In late 2007, Sen Sharma acted in two movies under the Yash Raj Films
banner. She noted her excitement toward these two projects as these
were the first films in which she had to lip-sync for songs. In the
first one, Laaga Chunari Mein Daag, a drama directed by Pradeep Sarkar, she portrayed the character of a Banaras small town young woman, Chutki, alongside Rani Mukerji. The film was a critical and commercial failure in India, even though her performance was received well. The second one was Aaja Nachle, which was widely promoted as the comeback film of Madhuri Dixit. The film did not do well. Rajeev Masand from CNN-IBN
noted her performance in the film as being "...nothing short of
fantastic. Her greatest strength is that she isn't afraid of making a
fool of herself and she doesn't worry about being laughed at. As a
result, her performance in Aaja Nachle is fearless and uninhibited."[15]
In 2008, Sen Sharma starred in Dil Kabaddi. She starred in a short film (How Can It Be?) directed by Mira Nair for a movie project called 8, which was screened at several film festivals in 2008 before having a theatrical release.[16]
In 2009, she appeared in the low-budget English-language film The President Is Coming, directed by Kunaal Roy Kapur. The film opened to generally positive reviews. Reviews were favorably directed toward her. Nikhat Kazmi from The Times of India
wrote, "Performance-wise, it's the uptight and complex-ridden Ms
Konkona who walks away with laurels and laughs even as the film takes a
healthy snigger at the desi self."[17]
Sen Sharma next starred in Zoya Akhtar's Luck by Chance, opposite Farhan Akhtar.[18]
Upon release, the film met with highly positive reviews from critics,
as did her performance, but its financial income was modest.[19][20] Sen Sharma's latest 2009 release was Ayan Mukerjee's romantic comedy Wake Up Sid in which she starred alongside Ranbir Kapoor. Upon release, the film received universally positive reviews,[21] and her performance received rave reviews. Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama
wrote, "Konkona is natural to the core and the best part is, she's so
effortless. Here's another winning performance from this incredible
performer."[22] The New York Times
wrote, "Ms. Sharma has made a specialty of characters like Aisha:
independent urban women, whose dreams involve careers as well as love.
Her Aisha is a nuanced creation — ambitious, sympathetic, believable —
and Mr. Mukerji, making his directing debut, is right to let her run
away with the film."[23]
In 2010, Sen Sharma starred in Ashwani Dheer's comedy Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge opposite Ajay Devgan and Paresh Rawal.[24] and Neeraj Pathak's Right Yaa Wrong where she played a lawyer. She has completed shooting for Rituparno Ghosh's comedy film Sunglass and Vinay Shukla's Mirch.
In 2011, Sen Sharma played the leading role in Aparna Sen's Iti Mrinalini,[25][26] She will also appear in Amitabh Verma's Jackpot opposite Ranvir Shorey,[27] in Suman Mukherjee's adaptation of Shesher Kobita[28] and Goutam Ghose's Shunyo Awnko.
As of April 2012, Sen Sharma is set to star in Balaji Telefilms' Ek Thi Daayan, to be directed by Vishal Bhardwaj along with Emraan Hashmi and Kalki Koechlin,[29] where the film itself is inspired by the short story written by her father Mukul Sharma.[30] She will also be seen in Aparna Sen's Goynar Baksho.[31]
Theatre
In June 2009, Sen Sharma starred onstage first time at Atul Kumar's The Blue Mug alongside Rajat Kapoor, Vinay Pathak, Ranvir Shorey and Sheeba Chadha.[32] In 2010, the play was toured around the nation and abroad.[33]
Personal life
Konkona is a daughter of Bengali Indian filmmaker, script writer, and
actress Aparna Sen. Sen Sharma started dating actor and co-star Ranvir Shorey in 2007. The couple got married on 3 September 2010 in a private ceremony.[34] The Times of India reported that Sen Sharma gave birth to her first child, Haroon, on 15 March 2011 at a South Mumbai hospital.[35] In early 2013 it was reported that Konkana has had a spat with her husband Ranvir and is living separately.
Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Language | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Indira | Child artist | Bengali | |
| 1989 | Picnic | Daughter | Bengali | TV |
| 1994 | Amodini | Teenage stepmother | Bengali | |
| 2001 | Ek Je Aachhe Kanya | Ria | Bengali | |
| 2002 | Titli | Titli | Bengali | |
| 2002 | Mr. and Mrs. Iyer | Meenakshi Iyer | English | National Film Award for Best Actress |
| 2004 | Chai Pani Etc. | Shanti/Radha Joshi | English | |
| 2005 | Amu | Kaju "Amu" | English | |
| 2005 | Page 3 | Madhvi Sharma | Hindi | |
| 2005 | 15 Park Avenue | Mithi | English | |
| 2006 | Dosar | Kaberi Chatterjee | Bengali | |
| 2006 | Mixed Doubles | Malti | Hindi | |
| 2006 | Yun Hota To Kya Hota | Tilottima Punj | Hindi | |
| 2006 | Omkara | Indu | Hindi | Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress |
| 2006 | Deadline: Sirf 24 Ghante | Sanjana | Hindi | |
| 2006 | Karkat Rashi | College girl | Hindi | TV |
| 2007 | Traffic Signal | Noori | Hindi | |
| 2007 | Meridian | Pramilla | Hindi | Delay |
| 2007 | Life in a... Metro | Shruti Ghosh | Hindi | Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award |
| 2007 | Laaga Chunari Mein Daag | Chutki (Shubhavari Sahay) | Hindi | Nominated—Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award |
| 2007 | Aaja Nachle | Anokhi Anokhelal | Hindi | |
| 2008 | Fashion | Herself | Hindi | Special appearance |
| 2008 | Dil Kabaddi[36] | Simi | Hindi | |
| 2008 | 8 | Zeinab | English | Segment "How can it be?" |
| 2009 | The President Is Coming | Maya Roy | English | |
| 2009 | Luck by Chance[18] | Sona Mishra | Hindi | |
| 2009 | Wake up Sid | Aisha Bannerjee | Hindi | |
| 2010 | Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge | Munmun | Hindi | |
| 2010 | Right Yaa Wrong[37] | Radhika Patnaik | Hindi | |
| 2010 | Mirch[38] | Lavni/Anita | Hindi | |
| 2011 | 7 Khoon Maaf | Nandini | Hindi | Cameo appearance |
| 2011 | Iti Mrinalini[39] | Mrinalini Mitra | Bengali | |
| 2013 | Shunyo Awnko | Raka Biswas | Bengali | |
| 2013 | Ek Thi Daayan | Hindi | Releasing on April 18, 2013 | |
| 2013 | Blind Night | Ninu | Hindi | |
| 2013 | Gaur Hari Dastaan | Lakshmi Das | Hindi | |
| 2013 | Shesher Kabita | Labannya | Bengali | Post-production |
| 2013 | Sunglass | Bengali | Delay | |
| 2013 | Goynar Baksho | Shomlata | Bengali | Filming |
Awards
- National Film Awards
- 2003: National Film Award for Best Actress, Mr and Mrs Iyer
- 2007: National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress, Omkara
- Filmfare Awards
- 2007: Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award, for Omkara
- 2008: Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award, for Life in a... Metro
- 2008: Nominated, Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award, for Laaga Chunari Mein Daag
- Zee Cine Awards
- 2006: Zee Cine Award Best Female Debut, Page 3 (Jointly with Vidya Balan)
- 2007: Zee Cine Award Best Actor in a Supporting Role- Female, for Omkara
- IIFA Awards
- 2008: IIFA Best Supporting Actress Award, Life in a... Metro
- Other Awards
- 2002: Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards: Best Actress for Ek Je Aachhe Kanya
- 2003: Anandalok Awards: Critics Choice for Mr and Mrs Iyer
- 2005: Kalakar Awards : Best Actress for Page 3.[40]
- 2007: Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards : Most Outstanding Performance of the Year for 15, Park Avenue
- 2007: Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council (MIAAC) Film Festival: Best Actress for Dosar.[12]
- 2011: 11th New York Indian Film Festival: Best Actress for Iti Mrinalini[41]
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