Indrani Haldar
Indrani Haldar (born 6 January 1971) is an Indian actress who is mostly known for her work in Bengali cinema.[1] She was conferred with a National Award, three BFJA Awards and two Anandalok Awards.
Halder made her debut in 1986 with the Bengali TV series Tero Parbon directed by Jochon Dastidar.[2] She made her big screen debut opposite Prosenjit Chatterjee in Mandira (1990).[3] She has appeared in numerous films, telefilms and TV series and hit the pinnacle of her career with the Bengali TV series Goyenda Ginni.[4] She appeared in critically acclaimed films such as Charachar, Dahan, Anu, Sajhbatir Rupkathara, Faltu, Tokhon Teish, Mayurakshi to name a few.[5] She has also worked at Maa Shakti by BR Chopra
Indrani was born in the city of Kolkata. Her father is Sanjoy Haldar. She finished her schooling from the Multipurpose Girls’ School and graduated from Jogamaya Devi College, an affiliated women’s college of University of Calcutta. She was trained in classical dance by Guru Thankamani Kutty.
Indrani made her acting debut in the television serial Tero Parban (1986).[6] She lived in Mumbai during 2008 to 2013 to act in Hindi TV serials.[7]
Her most notable work includes Biyer Phool, cast along with Rani Mukherjee. Currently, she is acting in the Star Jalsha serial Shrimoyee as the lead actress.She is known for her work in ‘Jara brishtite bhijechilo’ directed by Anjan das, “Angshumaner Chobi”, directed by Atanu ghosh, “Dahan”, directed by Rituparno ghosh, “Sanjhbatir Rupkathara”, directed by Anjan das, “Anu”, directed by Satarupa Sannyal, “Takhan Teish” directed by Atanu Ghosh, “Faltu”, directed by Anjan das, “Dekha” directed by Gautam Ghosh, “Debdas” directed by Shakti samanta, Lal darja directed by Budhyadeb dasgupta, nilimay nil directed by Biresh chaterjee, Swet pathorer Thala directed by Prabhat Roy.Her commercial success included Bier fool, Prem sanghat, Antortomo, Barkone, Chowdhuri Paribar, Jay bijay, Apon holo por, Gharer laxmi, Noyoner alo, Satyam sibam sundaram, Mandira, Biswas obiswas, Saikat sangeet, sagar banya, Jamaibabu, Sesh Asroy etc. She shared screen mostly with Prasenjit chatterjee, Tapash paul, Chiranjit chakraborty, Abhishek chaterjee, Bhaskar banerjee, Sanjib dasgupta. Her one of the Hindi film is ‘Bhairav’ with Bollywood star Mithun Chakrabarty .She is often compared with Rituparna sengupta and Debosree Roy for her work in Bengali film.She is the only leading actress of Bengal industry who is working in film as well as in television very smoothly. She is often called “Queen of Bengali television industry’.Her television serials included Sujata in Sony TV, somoy in Ruposhi bangla, Goyenda ginni & Sima Rekha in Zbangla, Srimoyee in Star jalsa, Tero Parbon in DD bangla etc.
