Victor Banerjee (Bengali: à¦à¦¿à¦•à§à¦Ÿà¦° বà§à¦¯à¦¾à¦¨à¦¾à¦°à§à¦œà¦¿, Hindi: विकà¥à¤¤à¥‹à¤° बानेरà¥à¤œà¤¿, Urdu: ÙˆÙچتور بانیرج٠), born 15 October, 1946, is a British educated Calcutta based Indian film actor.
He was born in a distinguished Bengali family. He is the descendant of W.C.Banerjee, a leading intellectual, a prominent man of his time and the first president of the Indian National Congress (1885).
He had his schooling in St. Edmunds', Shillong and graduated in English Literature from St. Xaviers' College, Calcutta.
His most visible role has been in David Lean's A Passage to India (1984). He has also acted in Merchant Ivory Productions Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures and Satyajit Ray's Ghare Baire.
Though in recent years he has largely been involved with Bollywood, he is also affiliated with the Bengali film industry. He also plays 'character actor' roles from time to time in the British cinema. He was also cast in the role of Jesus by director Stephen Pimlott in the 1988 production of the York...
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Ta Ra Rum Pum stars Saif Ali Khan and Rani Mukerji in the lead roles. This is the second time the lead pair are working together post the success of their last film together, Hum Tum (2004). The film is directed by Siddharth Anand, who directed the 2005 hit Salaam Namaste.
Shooting began in May 2006 and the film was released on 27 April 2007. The working title was originally Ta Ra Rum Pum Pum. The film was shot almost entirely in the United States of America, with a few scenes shot in a studio in Mumbai. Portions of the film were filmed in Rockingham, North Carolina at the North Carolina Speedway. Ali Haji had to go through three auditions and Angelina Idnani was called in for her fourth audition before they were both finalized for the movie. It was loosely based on the film Cars.
Rajveer Singh (Saif Ali Khan) is happy go lucky and has an immense passion for driving and dreams of making it big on the racecourse. He is discovered by his manager Harry (Jaaved Jaffrey). In a sudden...
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Bhoot is a Bollywood film released in 2003. "Bhoot" ( à¤à¥‚त )is the Nepali and Hindi word for ghost and the movie deals with the supernatural. It was directed by Ram Gopal Varma and stars Urmila Matondkar and Ajay Devgan. It was perceived to be different from a typical Bollywood movie as it did not contain songs. It became a hit and was remade in Tamil under the title Shock starring Meena and Prashanth.
The film revolves around Vishal (Ajay Devgan), a stock analyst, and his wife Swati (Urmila Matondkar). The two are in search for a flat in Mumbai. Vishal finds the perfect place on the 12th floor of a high-rise apartment building. However, the apartment has a horrifying past. The previous occupant of the flat, a young woman had killed her child and jumped from the balcony and died. Swati learns about this incident shortly after moving in and becomes oddly fixated with the story. Then, a series of inexplicable experiences drive Swati to near madness.
Vishal becomes helpless and convinced...
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A Passage to India is a 1984 film directed by David Lean, based on the novel of the same name by E. M. Forster.
The film is set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj. It begins with the arrival in India of a British woman, Miss Adela Quested, who is joining her fiancé, a city magistrate named Ronny Heaslop. She and Ronny's mother, Mrs. Moore, befriend an Indian doctor, Aziz H. Ahmed. Dr. Aziz meets Mrs. Moore for the first time in the moonlight at an abandoned mosque on the river Ganges, and he soon finds that Mrs. Moore possesses a sensitivity and unprejudiced attitude to native Indians which endears her to him. When Mrs. Moore and Miss Quested profess an interest in seeing "the real India" (as opposed to the Anglicised environment Ronnie and his friends have constructed for themselves), Aziz offers to host an excursion to the Marabar Caves (to avoid asking them to his shabby bungalow), a local geological oddity.
Miss Quested...
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Ghare Baire (The Home and the World) is a 1984 film by Bengali director Satyajit Ray, based upon the novel Ghare Baire (The Home and the World) by Rabindranath Tagore. It features Soumitra Chatterjee, Victor Banerjee , Jennifer Kendal and Swatilekha Chatterjee, married Sengupta.
The story is set in early 20th century India in the estate of the rich Bengali noble Nikhil (Victor Banerjee). He lives happily with his beautiful wife Bimala (Swatilekha Chatterjee) until the appearance of his friend and radical revolutionist, Sandip (Soumitra Chatterjee).
Sandip, a passionate and active man, is a contradiction to the peace - loving and somewhat passive Nikhil. He easily attracts the innocent and unsuspecting Bimala, creating a love triangle.
Although Nikhil figures out what is happening, he is a mature person and thus grants Bimala freedom to grow and choose what she wants in her life (as their marriage was arranged when she was a young girl). Meanwhile Bimala experiences the emotions...
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Pikoor Diary (Bengali: পিকৠPiku, or Pikoo's Day) is a short film primarily made for television by Satyajit Ray.
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Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures (1978) is a film by Merchant Ivory Productions (written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant) set in India, starring UK great stage actress Dame Peggy Ashcroft.A group of people descend upon a palace in order to steal a collection of valuable paintings. The group includes Lady Gee (Peggy Ashcroft), a museum curator, the Maharaja (Victor Banerjee) , his sister Bonnie, (Aparna Sen) who wants to sell the paintings to Sotheby's, and a few others....
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