Tillotama Shome (born 25 June 1979[1]) is an Indian actress. Known for her work in several independent film productions. In 2021, she won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress for portraying a praiseworthy role of a house maid Ratna in the film Sir at the 66th Filmfare Awards.
Tillotama Shome | |
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 Tillotama Shome snapped at the Lakme Fashion Week 2024. | |
| Born | 25 June 1979 Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Spouse |
Kunal Ross (m. 2015) |
Early life
editShome was born in Kolkata to Anupam and Baisakhi Shome.[2] Shome grew up all over India since her father was with the Indian Air Force.[3]
Career
editShome went to Delhi's Lady Shri Ram College and joined Arvind Gaur's Asmita theatre group.[4] She moved to New York in the autumn of 2004 for a master's program in educational theatre at New York University, where she remained until visiting Mumbai on holiday in February 2008. Thereafter, she took up residence in Mumbai and after completing some outstanding projects in New York, she returned to India in May 2008.[5] In New York, she also taught theatre to murder convicts at a high security US prison.[6][7]
She made her film debut as Alice in Mira Nair's feature film Monsoon Wedding,[8] and played Deepa in Shadows of Time (Schatten der Zeit), directed by Florian Gallenberger. She played a nun in the Australian film The Waiting City by Claire McCarthy.[6] Italo Spinelli's Gangor, based on Mahashweta Devi's novel, had her play a social worker.[9] She also worked in Qaushiq Mukherjee's Tasher Desh.[10] She played Mrs. Ahmadi in the Hindi political thriller film Shanghai directed by Dibakar Banerjee. About her performance in Shanghai Rediff wrote "Shome created one of this year's most heartbreaking performances in a Hindi film".[11]
Her other roles have included Lara in Little Box of Sweets (directed by Meneka Das),[12] Jaya in Long After (short film, directed by Afia Nathaniel) and Miraal in Butterfly (directed by Tanuj Chopra).
Her performance as a girl who is raised as a boy in Qissa won her the best actress title in the New Horizons Competition of the seventh Abu Dhabi Film Festival (ADFF). She shared the title with Norwegian actress Julia Wildschutt.[13]
Personal life
editShome is married to Kunal Ross, the nephew of Jaya Bachchan, thus making her the niece-in-law of Jaya and Amitabh Bachchan.[14][15]
Filmography
editFilms
edit| Year | Film | Role | Language | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Monsoon Wedding | Alice | Hindi, English | |
| 2003 | Butterfly | Miraal | English | Short Film |
| 2004 | Shadows of Time | Deepa | Bengali | |
| 2006 | Long After | Jaya | English | Short Film |
| Little Box of Sweets | Lara | English | ||
| 2009 | Boond | Jeevni | Hindi | Short Film |
| The Waiting City | Sister Tessila | English | ||
| Zamir and Preeti: A Love Story | Preeti | English | Short Film | |
| Clap Clap | Leena | English | Short Film | |
| 2010 | Gangor | Medha | English, Bengali | |
| 2011 | Turning 30 | Malini Roy | Hindi | |
| 2012 | Shanghai | Aruna Ahmedi | Hindi | |
| Tasher Desh | Queen | Bengali | ||
| 2013 | Sahasi Chori | Radha | Nepali | Short Film |
| Aatma | Vaishali Sinha | Hindi | ||
| Qissa: The Tale of a Lonely Ghost | Kanwar | Punjabi | ||
| 2014 | The Letters | Kavitha Singh | English | |
| Sold | Bimla | English | ||
| Children of War | Bhitika | Hindi | [16] | |
| Nayantara's Necklace | Alka | Hindi | Short Film | |
| 2015 | Ludo | Shaman | Bengali | |
| 2016 | Budhia Singh – Born to Run | Sukanti | Hindi | |
| 2017 | A Death in the Gunj | Bonnie Bakshi | English, Hindi, Bengali | |
| Hindi Medium | Education Consultant | Hindi | ||
| The Song of Scorpions | Lady of The Night | Hindi | ||
| Union Leader | Geeta | Hindi | ||
| Kadvi Hawa | Parvati | Hindi | ||
| 2018 | Manto | Prostitute | Hindi | |
| Sir | Ratna | Hindi, Marathi | ||
| 2019 | India's Got Colour | Herself | Hindi | Music Video |
| Raahgir – The Wayfarers | Nathuni | Hindi | ||
| 2020 | Dheet Patangey | Devi | Hindi | |
| Angrezi Medium | Immigration Consultant | Hindi | ||
| Chintu Ka Birthday | Sudha Tiwary | Hindi | ||
| 2021 | Deep6 | Mitul | Bengali | |
| 2023 | Lust Stories 2 | Ishita | Hindi | Segment: The Mirror |
| 2024 | The Fable | Radha | Hindi |
Television
edit| Year | Show | Role | Language | Platform | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Futurestates | Syama | English | – | Episode: Pia |
| 2014 | Monsoon Baby | Shanti | German | – | TV Movie |
| 2016 | Love Shots | Nidhi | Hindi | Amazon Prime Video | Episode: Fired |
| 2020 | Mentalhood | Preeti | ALTBalaji and ZEE5 | 10 episodes | |
| 2022 | Delhi Crime | Lata Solanki/Karishma | Netflix | 5 episodes | |
| 2023 | The Night Manager | Lipika Saikia Rao | Disney+ Hotstar | 7 episodes | |
| Tooth Pari: When Love Bites | Meera | Netflix | 8 episodes | ||
| 2024 | Kota Factory: Season 3 | Pooja Agarwal (Pooja Didi) | 5 episodes | ||
| Tribhuvan Mishra: CA Topper | Bindi Jain | 9 episodes |
Awards and nominations
edit| Year | Award | Nominated work | Category | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Filmfare Awards | A Death in the Gunj | Best Supporting Actress | Nominated | [17] |
| 2021 | Sir | Best Actress (Critics) | Won | [18] | |
| 2023 | Filmfare OTT Awards | The Night Manager | Best Supporting Actress – Drama | Nominated | [19][20] |
| Delhi Crime | Won | ||||
| 2018 | FOI Online Awards | A Death in the Gunj | Best Actress in a Supporting Role | Nominated | [21] |
| Best Performance by an Ensemble Cast | Won | ||||
| 2021 | Sir | Best Actress in a Leading Role | Won | [22] | |
| 2018 | Indian Film Festival of Melbourne | Sir | Best Actress | Nominated | [23] |
| 2023 | Delhi Crime | Best Actress in a Series | Nominated | [24] |
References
edit- ^ Sana Farzeen (29 June 2023). "Tillotama Shome says she faced many moments of 'deep despair' in career: 'I became bitter, angry and cynical'". The Indian Express. Retrieved 6 July 2023.
- ^ Ghosh, Ananya (30 November 2022). "The Accidental Actor: Tillotama Shome". Man's World. Archived from the original on 5 July 2023. Retrieved 5 July 2023.
- ^ "Social Media Star of The Week: Tillotama Shome". Hindustan Times. 13 January 2023. Archived from the original on 8 July 2023. Retrieved 8 July 2023 – via PressReader.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "Alice in thunderland; Culture". Times Crest. 9 June 2012. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
- ^ Masala is in Mumbai Archived 26 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Mumbai Mirror, 18 May 2008
- ^ a b "I just want to act: Tillotama Shome – Entertainment – DNA". Daily News and Analysis. Archived from the original on 22 August 2013. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
- ^ "Not Just the 'Monsoon Wedding' Girl – Grazia India". Grazia.co.in. 1 January 1970. Archived from the original on 23 May 2016. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
- ^ Das, Garima (27 June 2023). "Tillotama Shome: In My Career Of 20 Years I Got Very Little Work But Didn't Give Up". Outlook. Archived from the original on 28 June 2023. Retrieved 5 July 2023.
- ^ "Alice of Monsoon Wedding is back". The Indian Express. 2 December 2010. Archived from the original on 5 July 2023. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
- ^ Priyanka Dasgupta (25 November 2011). "I did sword fighting in Tasher Desh: Tillotama Shome". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 28 June 2013. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
- ^ "Ten Most Memorable Movie Moments of 2012". Rediff.com. 2 January 2013. Archived from the original on 3 June 2013. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
- ^ Little Box of Sweets Archived 6 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, The Guardian, 15 August 2008
- ^ [1] Archived 2 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Tillotama Shome is related to Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan and the rest of the Bachchan family. Here's how". 5 July 2023.
- ^ "Bachchan family attends Tillotama Shome's wedding ceremony". 4 April 2015.
- ^ "Actress Tillotama Shome to feature next in Children of War". news.biharprabha.com. Indo-Asian News Service. Archived from the original on 29 September 2015. Retrieved 15 February 2014.
- ^ "63rd Jio Filmfare Awards 2018 Nominations". 18 January 2018.
- ^ "66th Vimal Elaichi Filmfare Awards 2021: Complete Winners' List". The Times of India. 28 March 2021. Archived from the original on 31 March 2021. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
- ^ "Nominations for the Filmfare OTT Awards 2023: Full List Out". 23 November 2023. Retrieved 23 November 2023.
- ^ "Winners Of The Filmfare OTT Awards 2023: Full List Out". 27 November 2023. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
- ^ "3rd FOI Online Awards".
- ^ "6th FOI Online Awards".
- ^ "Indian Film Festival Of Melbourne 2018". IMDb.
- ^ "Indian Film Festival Of Melbourne 2023". IMDb.
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