Personal Info
Birth date
1966-11-25 (58 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Also known as
Roopa Ganguly
Rupa Ganguly
Roopa Ganguly
Biography
Roopa Ganguly (born 25 November 1966) is an Indian actress, playback singer and politician. She is best known for her rendition of Draupadi in B R Chopra's hit television series Mahabharat (1988). Often promoted as the Bengali Film Industry's answer to Bollywood's Shabana Azmi, she is known for her versatility and accent adaptation. She worked with directors such as Mrinal Sen, Aparna Sen, Goutam Ghose and Rituparno Ghosh. She is a trained Rabindra Sangeet vocalist and a classical dancer. She received several awards including a National Award and two BFJA Awards. In October, 2015, she was nominated as a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, by the President of India. She served as the President of BJP Mahila Morcha in West Bengal. She served as the General Secretary and the Vice President for the West Bengal Motion Picture Artistes' Forum, a body representing cine artistes.
Filmography
Karam Apnaa Apnaa
NYR
Overview:
Karam Apnaa Apnaa is an Indian soap opera that aired on Star Plus and was produced by Ekta Kapoor of Balaji Telefilms.Mahabharat
7.114
Overview:
A dynastic struggle occurs for the throne of Hastinapur, the kingdom ruled by the Kuru clan, between the Kauravas and Pandavas, collateral branches of the clan, which causes the Kurukshetra War.Waqt Batayega Kaun Apna Kaun Paraya
NYR
Overview:
Waqt Batayega Kaun Apna Kaun Paraya is a Hindi television saga that aired on Sony TV based on the story of a girl name Rudra who faces many hurdles by her adoptive family members. The series premiered on April 14, 2008 and is produced by Dheeraj Kumar's production house Creative Eye Limited.Love Story
NYR
Overview:
Love Story is an Indian television drama, produced by Hindi film director Anurag Basu and directed by Ravi Davala. The series originally aired in India on SAB TV from April 30, 2007, to January 17, 2008. Beginning June 11, 2007, the series was retelecast on sister network Sony Entertainment Television. Although the show was dropped from SET's line-up in India within months, the series aired until its completion on SET's international feed, Sony Entertainment Television Asia, which aired the concluding episode of the series on January 31, 2008.Barfi!
7.6
Overview:
The heartwarming tale of Barfi, a charming deaf-mute young man from 1970s Darjeeling, and two unalike women who can't help but fall for him.Critical Encounter
NYR
Overview:
The story is of terrorism that’s plaguing different parts of the Northeast as the backdrop. Shilajeet Majumdar, a militant on the run, takes refuge in a dilapidated mansion. Rupa Ganguly stays there with her father-in-law Soumitra Chatterjee and his father Haradhan Bandopadhyay who’s confined to bed and is unable to speak. This film focuses on the friction and undercurrent of tension between the lady of the house and the terrorist.Jaani Dekha Hobe
7
Overview:
A young musician and a fatso model have the same dream together, and they meet and fall in love at a bookstore. When their relationship starts to fall apart, an out-of-work magician steps in.Hemlock Society
7.1
Overview:
Hemlock Society is a school that teaches aspirants how to successfully commit suicide. Meghna, one of the aspirants, has a near-death experience, turning everybody's lives upside-down.Bow Barracks Forever
NYR
Overview:
As the modern world hustles toward never-ending changes, the residents of a small Anglo-Indian community in the lively metropolis of Kolkata try to preserve their unique identity in this moving drama from India. A host of characters, including Emily (Lillete Dubey), her son Bradly (Clayton Rodgers) and the woman he loves, Anne (Neha Dubey) -- who's stuck in an abusive marriage -- deal with personal struggles and pressure to give up their homes.Dekha
5.2
Overview:
A journey through the life of an aged Bengali poet, Shashibhushan. Shashbhushan, now blind, reflects on his past. Stimulated by sounds - songs, crows, traffic, and an electronic lighter - he recalls the now-vanished arts and literature scene of post independence Calcutta. The old man lives in a crumbling aristocratic mansion in the heart of town, which he shares with his teacher's daughter, Sarama, and her young son Shumon. During a vacation in the country another man enters their lives. Gangan was born blind and is a talented singer. Gangan and Sarama engage in a secret affair as Shashibhushan recalls his own wife, who he lost because of his uncontrollable sexual appetite.Krishna Cottage
4.844
Overview:
After their car breaks down, a group of collegians are forced to take shelter in the mysterious Krishna Cottage for the night. Little do they know that the cottage is haunted by a spirit.Luck
4.6
Overview:
Born lucky, Karim Moussa takes to exploiting it instead of focusing on studies. Now a wealthy gambler, he decides to recruit about a dozen lucky people to participate in a deadly game of survival.Dutta Vs Dutta
8.5
Overview:
Dutta Vs Dutta is a 2012 Bengali film directed by Anjan Dutt. This is Anjan Dutt's semi-autobiographical film. Most of the film has been shot in a house of Amherst Street in Kolkata. Anjan has described this house resonated feel of his old house of Beniapukur.Ek Din Achanak
6.7
Overview:
Shasanka is a retired teacher who lives with his wife and two daughters. The family is thrown into an uproar after he goes out for a walk and disappears from their lives. Each member of the family reviews her final hours and days with him to try and discover what, if anything led to his disappearance.In the Forest... Again
NYR
Overview:
The film features the characters from Satyajit Ray's Aranyer Din Ratri, returning to the forest over thirty years later. Ashim, Sanjoy, Harinath and Aparna have grown old in this film; Shekhar has died. They set out on a journey to break off every link with civilisation for a few days. However, the trip turns sour when Ashim and Aparna's daughter, Amrita, goes missing. It transpires that she is being held for ransom by local tribespeople. Police intervene and the kidnapped girl is returned to her parents, albeit against her own wishes.Bariwali
6.8
Overview:
A quiet drama about a lonely, sad, middle-aged woman, Banalata, who has lived a solitary existence since her husband-to-be died the night before their wedding from a snake bite. Never having quite gotten over the tragedy, she rarely ventures out and is clearly very lonely. This changes when she agrees to allow a film production to shoot in a wing in her sprawling estate.Antarmahal
6
Overview:
In late 19th Century, Bengal Bhubaneswar Chowdhury (Jackie Shroff) is a wealthy and tyrannical Zamidar (Squire). He has two main obsessions: his desperate attempts for an heir, which even his new second wife Jashomati seems unable to deliver; and competing with his regional rivals to produce the most magnificent effigy of a goddess for the annual Durga Puja ceremony. This year he concocts a master plan - why not change the face of the goddess for the most powerful woman on Earth - Queen Victoria. Meantime his two wives Mahomaya and Jashomati try to look out for one another especially as Bhubeneshwar begins to sexually assault his younger wife each night. Traumatised and lonely, Jashomati is dangerously drawn towards the youthful sculptor who has been employed to create the great effigy of Durga, Goddess of destruction.Namte Namte
NYR
Overview:
The film revolves around a typical middle-class family of Bengal. Ananda (Rajatava Dutta) is a very meek guy and is scared of confronting people. He is a peace-loving man and very shy in nature. He works as a clerk in a government office. His wife Seema (Roopa Ganguly) is however a spirited woman and remains tense about him and her family.Chaurahen
10
Overview:
It is an evocative and poignant composition consisting of three separate stories set in Mumbai, Kolkata and Kochi. Every story revolves around love, life and loss.Nishchaiy
3.5
Overview:
The story of two brothers, Ravi and Rohan Yadav, separated due to unforeseen circumstances created by Ravi's employer.Bidhatar Lekha
5
Overview:
The film explores two lovers and their relationship in their last life that had come to a tragic end, and in 2007 the pair confronts each other again in the current incarnation.Nagordola
NYR
Overview:
A dysfunctional family endures chronic illness, unplanned pregnancy, emotional instability, inappropriate affairs, and a host of other issues.Khela
NYR
Overview:
Kolkata-based Sheela Bhowmik feels isolated and neglected, and decides to leave her busy film-maker husband, Raja, to spend sometime with her friend, Renu, her mom, and then subsequently travels to Kashmir to spend some time by herself. Raja gets involved in a new movie depicting the life of Gautam Buddh, and is on the look-out for a male child to play the character. He does find one, a young school-going lad, Abhirup Mitra; introduces him to the Producer, Vikram; as well as other crew including beautiful Anjali, who has a crush on Raja. Neither Vikram, Anjali nor any of the crew are aware that Raja is the prime suspect in the abduction of Abhirup.Jara Bristite Bhijechhilo
7.5
Overview:
Jara Brishtite Bhijechhilo, is a Bengali film based on Joy Goswami's story Jara Brishtite Bhijechhilo, released in 2007. The film directed by Anjan Das stars Indrani Halder, Sudip Mukherjee, Aloknanda Ray. Indrani Haldar has bagged the best actress award at the Madrid International Film Festival (Spain) for her role in this film, plays a woman, who walks out of marriage after being subjected to repeated marital rape and starts living her life on her own terms with her poet-loverKamla Ki Maut
8.5
Overview:
The film is set in a lower middle class chawl, an apartment building in Mumbai, a 20-year-old and unmarried Kamla, unable to handle the news of her pregnancy commits suicide. This makes her neighbourhood examine their own secrets and the choices they have made in their own lives.Acting
2025Raghu Dakat as Unknown
2015Arshinagar as Tayyab's mother
2015Aro Ekbar as Unknown
2015Natoker Moto: Like a Play as Kheya's mother
2015Gurudakshina as Unknown
2014NayanChampar Dinratri as Unknown
2014Punascha as Unknown
2013Aashbo Aarek Din as Unknown
2013Namte Namte as Unknown
2012Dutta Vs Dutta as Runu
2012Na Hannyate as Jui
2012Barfi! as Shruti's mother
2012Hemlock Society as Niharika Basu
2012Mayabazaar as Unknown
2011Abosheshey as Suchismita
2011Jaani Dekha Hobe as Unknown
2011Nobel Chor as Diya
2010Rehmat Ali as Unknown
2009Piyali's Password as Piyali Ray
2009Luck as Special appearance
2009Chowrasta Crossroads of Love as Unknown
2009The Understudy as Unknown
2008Khela as Special appearance
2008Waqt Batayega Kaun Apna Kaun Paraya (1 Episode) as Madhvi Malhotra
2007Bidhatar Lekha as Shubho's mother
2007Chaurahen as Mrs Bose
2007Jara Bristite Bhijechhilo as Unknown
2007Love Story (1 Episode) as Ritu (Akash's mother)
2006Karam Apnaa Apnaa (603 Episodes) as Suguna
2005Antarmahal as Zamindar's wife
2005Ek Mutho Chabi as Unknown
2005Nagordola as Unknown
2005Empty Canvas as Sharmishtha Sen, manager
2005Critical Encounter as Unknown
2005Mayer Raja as Unknown
2004Bow Barracks Forever as Unknown
2004Krishna Cottage as Nun
2004Mahulbanir Sereng as Unknown
2003In the Forest... Again as Unknown
2001Dekha as Unknown
2000Bastir Meye Radha as Unknown
2000Bariwali as Sudeshna Mitra
1995Yugant as Anasuya
1994Rajar Raja as Unknown
1993Janani as Unknown
1993The Padma Boatman as Kopila
1993Prithibir Sesh Station as Unknown
1992Nishchaiy as Vidya
1991Naa Ille Naa Swargam as Krishna wife
1991Saugandh as Rajha
1991Sadharan Meye as Unknown
1990Bahaar Aane Tak as Rama
1990Pyar Ka Devta as Shardha Kumar
1989Ek Din Achanak as Seema Roy
1989Toofan as Unknown
1989Kamla Ki Maut as Geeta
1988Mahabharat (94 Episodes) as Draupadi
Production
2005Ek Mutho Chabi ... Producer