Daminee Benny Basu

Daminee Benny Basu

History

Daminee Benny Basu has been brought up on stage from her childhood as a trained singer-actor. She is an acclaimed performance-artist and a coach for actors. Her orientation has been very close to the Indian theatre for the last thirty-five years. On stage she has worked with directors like Soumitra Chattopadhyay, Asit Basu, Usha Ganguly, Bibhash Chakraborty, Debesh Chattopadhyay, Arun Mukhopadhyay, Suman Mukhopadhyay, Anjan Dutt to name only a few. Daminee Benny is a known name in cinema as well, where she has acted, coached and researched as a consultant for directors like Rituparno Ghosh, Vishal Bhardwaj, Kaushik Ganguly, Shoojit Sircar, Srijit Mukherji, Anik Dutta, Raj Chakraborty, Indranil Roychowdhury and Parambrata Chattopadhyay.

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Daminee Benny Basu

Movies

Akash Ongshoto Meghla
Anjali
The film connects apparently disconnected stories of two men who have lost their way of life as a consequence of unexpected lockout or closure of factory.
Doodhpither Gachh
It is a crowd-funded film. There is a village called Aranghata in the district of Nadia, where 930 families have raised about Rs 19 lakh to fund this film
The Parcel
Parcel is story of a doctor couple and Nandini the female protagonist suddenly starts receiving some unanimous mysterious parcels with some of her older and recent photographs. This process creates a turbulence in their family and they go verge of terminating their marriage. Nandini tries to find out the root cause anticipating some black mailing purpose with association of her past wrong doings (As per her perception ). Its a multi-layered social story under a health system backdrop where nothing comes as explicit but a fear psychosis based on anticipation jeopardize everything.
Purbo Poschim Dokkhin Uttor Ashbei
The stories are based on the concepts of Paranormal, psychic situations Blind faith on black magic and witch craft , Severe superstitions and rituals Reincarnation, fake identity and mysterious comeback. The film rationalizes the good and the bad sides of popular belief and age-old ideas, the evil of superstition and the dark side of mankind.
Jyeshthoputro
A popular movie star, the eldest son of his parents, returns to his ancestral village for his father's funeral, only to unearth long-hidden complexities within his family.
The Paperman
In an exploration of grief through the absurd, Priyanka seeks comfort in her conversations with Neha, soon after lighting the pyre of her old father, with whom she shared a difficult relationship.