Victor Banerjee

Victor Banerjee

Nascimento : 1946-10-16, Calcutta, West Bengal, India

História

Victor Banerjee (born Partho Sarathi Banerjee, 15 October 1946) is an Indian actor who appears in English, Hindi, Bengali and Assamese language films. He has worked for directors including Roman Polanski, James Ivory, Sir David Lean, Jerry London, Ronald Neame, Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Shyam Benegal, Montazur Rahman Akbar and Ram Gopal Varma.

Perfil

Victor Banerjee

Filmes

Raktabeej
President Pranab Mukherjee
On 2 October 2014, an explosion occurred in a house in the Khagragarh locality of Burdwan, West Bengal. A Bangladeshi terrorist, one of the prime accused, was sentenced to consecutive terms of imprisonment totalling 29 years for offences including waging war against any Asiatic power which is in alliance with the Government of India.
Sannyasi Deshonayok
A group of students decide to make a documentary on the Gumnami Baba theory, attempting to find the truth behind the idea that Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose spent the remainder of his life in the guise of a sadhu. What starts as a research project gets them involved in sinister events, some of which are even life threatening.
Akorik
A 75 year old man comes across a 10 year old boy up the hill.
Thinking of Him
Rabindranath Tagore
Two stories intertwine over the time. In the present, Felix, pessimistic and lazy teacher encounters a book that dazzles him, while he teaches geography in a detention center for minors. In the past, Rabindranath Tagore, Bengali poet, author of the book that has come to Felix, arrives in Argentina and is hosted by Victoria Ocampo, who lives a brief and innocent romance. Felix becomes more and more obsessed with the story of the poet.
Josef - Born in Grace
Father O'Hara
An adaptation of a short story "Joseph" written by Umakanta Mahapatra and is set in the foothills of the Himalayas between 1960 and 1980 in India. Father O'Hara (Victor Banerjee), a missionary doctor with the help of his caretaker Maularam (Sudarshan Juyal), raises an orphan baby Josef (Hitesh Bisht). While still a young boy, Josef is sent to Dehradun, Uttarakhand, for his studies and vocational training. Josef (Subrat Dutta) returns back with a reputation as a great cook as well as his love for alcohol. The film explores in its unfolding of time, the different paths that Father O'Hara, Josef, and Maularam take in their respective journeys for spiritual fulfillment through memories, duty, and search as well as the their interaction with friends and acquaintances. Through static mis-en-scenes, the narrative of the film reflects the all-encompassing nature of time, pre-empting and repeating itself in allegorical hues.
E.M. Forster: His Longest Journey
Himself (archive footage)
A film about the life of A Passage to India author EM Forster, following his huge growth as a writer and the twists and turns of his personal life.
Rainbow Fields
Rainbow Fields is an Assamese movie starring Dipannita Sharma and Victor Banerjee in prominent roles. The movie also stars Nakul Vaid, Naved Aslam, Nipon Goswami and Panchi Bora. It is a drama directed by Bidyut Kotoky with Anurag Saikia as musician, forming part of the crew.
High Life: Uma Nova Vida
Indian Professor
Um Grupo de criminosos aceita um acordo para trocar suas penas pela participação em uma missão espacial à procura de energias alternativas, mas a viagem toma rumos inesperados quando uma tempestade de raios cósmicos atinge a nave.
The Answer
Paramhansa Yogananda
In the quest for finding a deeper meaning to life, this is a true story of an American seeker who forsakes the worldly life to enter upon an amazing spiritual journey of self realisation.
Alifa
Alifa (Bengali: আলিফা) is an Indian Bengali drama feature film written and directed by Deep Choudhury and produced by Arman Ahmed. It stars Baharul Islam and Jaya Seal.
Biporjoy
Pratik Choudhury is a young engineer, tasked with constructing a dam across a river in Suryanagar, a fictitious village in Bengal. Along the way he has to deal with wicked people, trying to amass wealth by constructing a cheap dam using low end products. Apart from this, Pratik has another secret task- to clear his dead father's name from slanderous allegations.
Love Express
In a family that's equal parts strict and strange, a young man is allowed to make up to a hundred mistakes. Once he reaches that magic number, he will be disowned. The story begins when he is on the verge of making his hundredth mistake.
Dev Bhoomi: Land of the Gods
Após um exílio de 40 anos, Rahul Negi retorna ao seu distante povoado no Himalaia. Ele anda pelo vilarejo em busca de rostos conhecidos, mas, infelizmente, as pessoas que o reconhecem não ficam contentes ao vê-lo. Sua volta causa comoção entre os locais que não o perdoam e ainda se ressentem pelo que ele fez no passado.
Dev Bhoomi: Land of the Gods
Writer
Após um exílio de 40 anos, Rahul Negi retorna ao seu distante povoado no Himalaia. Ele anda pelo vilarejo em busca de rostos conhecidos, mas, infelizmente, as pessoas que o reconhecem não ficam contentes ao vê-lo. Sua volta causa comoção entre os locais que não o perdoam e ainda se ressentem pelo que ele fez no passado.
Fever
Dr. David Roy
An assassin takes on the identity of a writer to escape the law. He has two mysterious and sensuous women masquerading around him - Rhea and Kaavya. Suspense builds as they both uncover the lie.
Unfreedom
Fareed Rahmani
A Muslim fundamentalist in New York kidnaps a liberal Muslim scholar with intent to kill. A closeted lesbian in New Delhi kidnaps her activist bisexual lover with intent to marry. The resulting torture and violence evokes a brutal struggle of identities against unfreedom.
Children of War
Baba
Children of War is a movie based on the true events of the 1971 Genocide. Can we, in search of power, become animals? A genocide; neglected! The first use of rape as a weapon of war; undocumented! The lives of millions; unaccounted! The culprits; unpunished!
Jeeya Jurir Xubax
Dhon
Jeeya Jurir Xubax is a 2014 Assamese language drama film written and directed by Sanjib Sabhapandit. It was produced by Utpal Kumar Das and features ensemble cast, including Victor Banerjee and Bishnu Kharghoria.
Gunday
SP of Calcutta
The lives of Calcutta's most powerful gangsters - Bikram and Bala, changes when Nandita enters it. Then a counter-force takes charge and a thriller unfolds.
Sound
Professor Dr. Sen
The film revolves around the life of Tarak, a foley artist of Bengali film. Tarak's job is to create ambient sounds for films, but, he gradually gets trapped in his own world, a world full of sound.
Kagojer Nouka
An officer of National Investigation Agency, Arvind Singh, investigates the chit funds scams of West Bengal. People are being misguided by these fraudulent schemes. This huge amount of money from the common people is used to finance films. Mr. Raman is a freedom fighter who goes all out to get rid of this menace to society. His son, Bhuvan, and his wife also get murdered. Finally, Mr. Sujoy Sen Sharma, another freedom fighter is the real kingpin who is running this chit fund business for helping the terrorist by supplying them arms to create terrorism in the state.
Tor Naam
Swapna's father
Tor Naam is a 2012 Bengali movie directed by Jaya Sankar and produced by Weird Industries. The film is a remake of the Telegu movie Kotha Bangaru Lokam.
Delhi in a Day
Dhanbir
Jasper has arrived in Delhi to begin a tour of India, where the newness of his surroundings quickly prove overwhelming. As he is drawn into the dynamics of his host family, the Bhatias, he finds that his mere presence has upset the natural order of things. Jasper finds that the first day of his journey is possibly more than he bargained for.
Gosain Baganer Bhoot
Ram Kabiraj
A young boy meets a friendly ghost and the impossible became a reality. Based on a story by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay.
Meherjaan
Khwaja Saheb
During the war in 1971, Meher falls in love with a soldier from the enemy side. When her love is discovered, she is shamed and silenced by her family and society. Today 38 years after the war, Meher has a visitor she cannot turn down.
Bondhu Eso Tumi
Sujoy Ghosh and Tanushree C make their feature debut in Parthasarathi Joardar's Bondhu Eso Tumi.
Aladin
Grandfather
Based in the municipality of Khwaish, abused by his classmates, Aladin Chatterjee, who was orphaned when his parents, Arun and Riya, died in an accident in Siachen Valley, lived with his paternal grandfather until the later's passing. Now alone, grown up, studying in Khwaish University, and still being abused by fellow-college mates, he finds himself smitten by the lovely US Exchange Student, Jasmine. Unable to express his feelings for her, he rubs a lamp that was gifted to him on his birthday, which summons a genie named Genius. He gets 3 wishes, but wastes 2 of them, but on the 3rd one he insists that Genius assist him to win Jasmine's heart without any magical tricks. Hilarious chaos result when everything seems to fail while an immortal and deadly entity, Ringmaster, and his hordes, prepares to confront Genius and Aladin so that he can acquire more magical powers with the help of the lamp on the day of the sighting of a rare comet and the truth behind the death of Aladin's parents.
Chowrasta Crossroads of Love
the movie director ed by Anjan Dutt.
Tahaan
Grandfather
A tender fable about childhood innocence amid the realities of war is set against the rugged landscape of Kashmir, so long a flash point for the territorial claims of neighboring India and Pakistan. The title character, an eight year old mountain boy, often hears distant gunfire. But it is not until he goes on a quest to reclaim his beloved donkey, which has been confiscated as payment of his poor family's debts, that he is drawn toward a violence he has no capacity to understand.
Sarkar Raj
Mike Rajan
When Anita Raja, CEO of Sheppard power plant, brings a power plant proposal to set up in rural Mahrashtra before the Nagres, insightful Shankar is quick to realise the benefits the power plant can bring to the people.
Kalishankar
Kali, Shankar and Tithi are the motherless children of a priest. Their father gets murdered by a local don and the trio reunites years later to avenge his death.
Chaurahen
Dr Bose
Chaurahen (Crossroads), a film directed by Rajshree Ojha, who previously directed Aisha, in addition to two other popular specialty projects, boasts an impressive ensemble cast that includes Soha Ali Khan, Victor Banerjee, veteran Bollywood actress Zeenat Aman, and Kiera Chaplin, granddaughter of the silent film superstar Charlie Chaplin. The film is an adaptation of short stories by celebrated author Nirmal Verma. Ojha describes the three vignettes that comprise Chaurahen as “snippets of collected photographs, bringing together similar disconnected people trying to find their path.”
Apne
An ex-boxer Baldev Choudhary (Dharmendra) has had a stain in his boxing career. He wanted to wash it with his son Angad's (Sunny Deol) success, but times were hard and a financial crunch kept him from achieving this dream. Though Angad pulled through fine, Baldev never forgot who ruined his chance to wash the stain. An opportunity strikes Baldev in the form of a T.V. Show. He trains a local boy to get into this media hyped boxing show, but is ditched for a better coach at the last minute. Baldev's younger son Karan (Bobby Deol) has just launched his first music album. Realizing his father is in crises of his life, he gives up his dream of a musical career to get into the game of boxing.
Bandhu
Two close friends have been together since childhood. However, with time, they face many problems that affect their friendship as well as lives.
Ta Ra Rum Pum
Shubho Shekhar Rai Banerjee
Quando RV é avistado por Harry, de uma equipa de carros de corrida fracassada, tudo muda para RV e para a equipa. Tornam-se um sucesso estrondoso. O sonho fica completo quando conhece Radhika e ambos dão o nó. No entanto, sofre um acidente, perde tudo aquilo que conquistara. RV enfrenta o seu caminho, mas conseguirá recuperar a glória da sua família?
Aloy Phera
The story starts with the District magistrate Mr.Mukherjee who lives a blissfully happy existence with his wife, Mira and twin sons Indranath and Chandranath. They decide on a trip to visit Mr.Mukherjee’s native village. An accident happens in the way and they lose their son Chandranath. Chandra was rescued and nursed back to health by a sage who adopts him as his own child. Years later, Chandra comes to the city and is taken advantage of and ill-treated till he meets Bhola, a taxi driver with whom he strikes up an odd friendship .Bhola lets him stay at his own house too. Meanwhile Bhola gets a job as the District magistrate’s personal driver. Here he realises that his boss’s lost son and Chandra are the same person and so brings him back to his parents. The whole family re-unites once again.
The Bong Connection
The film is based on the lives of Bengali's across the world, especially on those settled abroad. It attempts to delineate the pain and dilemma of Bengali's estranged from their places of origin. It seeks to explore sensitive souls singing to the tunes of Tagore.
Bradford Riots
Azad
The story of the aftermath of the 2001 Bradford riots told from the perspective of an Asian familty
Ho Sakta Hai!
Dadaji
Mohan is a medical student who lives in the United States. One day, he receives a strange phone call from his grandfather asking him to come back to his native village in India. Once he arrives, he finds out that his brother and sister-in-law have mysteriously disappeared. Moreover, his little cousin Tanaji survived, but is behaving very strangely, he never speaks a word, gets up in the middle of the night, sometimes suddenly turns cold, and mistreats his toys. Mohan tries to solve the mystery, but fails to find a rational explanation for all the creepy things that happen. Everything points in the direction of the caretaker's wife, Parvati, who performs rituals of black magic.
Meu Irmão... Nikhil
Navin Kapoor
O famoso nadador Nikhil Kapoor (Suri) membro de uma família bem conhecida em Goa lida com as repercussões de anunciar o fato de que ele tem HIV / AIDS.
Bhalobashi Tomake
Bow Barracks Forever
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.
Bandhan
Mina narrates the story to the audience. She is no more and her husband stays with their son in Singapore. They have no contact with her family as she had married against her family's wish.
Abar Asbo Phire
It revolves around a romantic story rooted deeply in an incident of the lead character Ananda’s previous life. Trapped in between two timelines, the story delves into a period when a bunch of youngsters was ready to sacrifice their lives for India’s freedom. Sadly, the treachery of one destroyed their dreams and ended their lives.
Joggers Park
Justice J.P. Chatterjee
The film opens at a Rotary Club function to honor the recently retired Justice Jyotin Chatterjee. The judge has served the profession all his life with honor and spotless integrity. As he is about to retire, he recognizes there will now be a void in his life. His wife remarks to reporters that neither he nor she knows what he would do after he retires. Retired life is not easy for the aging judge. The younger generation is bolder and quicker than he was in his time.
Bhoot
Dr. Rajan
A Mumbai businessman and his wife are looking for a new flat. Apartment 1201 has been vacant since its previous occupant jumped to her death. Undeterred, the couple still decides to move in, but before long, the wife starts to have visions.
54 Miles
Sanjay
Sanjay, diagnosed with bronchial carcinoma, decides to go on an adventure to Sikkim by hiking along with his corrupt friend. Is the latter fortunate enough to find meaning in life as soon as the former breathes his last?
Deva
Childhood friends Devdas and Parvati hail from different backgrounds. Devdas falls in love with Parvati, but the norms of the society do not let them be together.
Chandramallika
Dada Thakur
Gita tries to reunite with her father while he awaits the return of his younger daughter, from America. Will everyone reunite?
Rajdanda
Kripa Sindhu and Sita undergo torture at the hands of Sita's stepmother. On appealing for justice, they are humiliated and banished from their own home.
Manush Keno Beiman
L. Chowdhury, a simple villager, who lives with his sister, finds his life turned upside down because of an unexpected accident.
Lathi
Atimdranath
Atindranath Bannerjee, a retired teacher, faces harassment from his family members and decides to discipline them. Later, he shifts to a slum and starts teaching underprivileged children.
Mahaan
Ajit, a driver, decides to take care of Chandu after an accident changes his perspective of life. He gives up everything in order to devote his time to Chandu's upbringing.
Lua de Fel
Mr. Singh
Um casal de ingleses ao fazerem um cruzeiro, conhecem uma bela e jovem francesa casada com um cadeirante. Ao notar o interesse por sua esposa, o cadeirante conta como eles se conheceram e se amaram loucamente.
Mahaprithibi
When the elderly mother of a Kolkata middle-class family commits suicide, no one has the courage to read the old woman's diary. When the eldest son returns from Germany, his anxious questioning brings to light the disorientation experienced by the family and the way world history penetrates into the fabric of individual lives.
Debota
A police superintendent arrests an unusual person guilty of three murders. There are mass protests for his release outside the jail. The protesting villagers refer to him as "debota", a guardian angel. As the policeman talks to the prisoner he hears a unique tale of heroism and honor.
Byabodhan
It is the story of a poor girl Sushmita who gets married to Bhaskar despite his denial. She has to face a lot of struggles and get insulted by her husband who is under the influence of another woman.
Crime Sem Perdão
Karpal Singh
On 9th of November 1983 two Australians, Kevin Barlow and Geoff Chambers were arrested at Penang Airport in Malaysia carrying 179 grams of Heroin. A crime which in Malaysia carries a mandatory sentence of death... Dadah Is Death (A Long Way From Home) is the true story of Barbara Barlow's desperate attempt to save her son from the Hangmans rope - a courageous effort that involved impassioned pleas to President Reagan, The British Prime Minister, and even the Pope. By July 1986 this international struggle had seemed to reach a hopeless conclusion and all that was left was a mother's love for her son.
Ekanta Apan
Sudipa falls in love with Rawnobir, a goon, and soon, they both get married. However, things take a turn when Rawnobir is arrested and gets imprisoned.
Foreign Body
Ram Das
Banerjee stars as Ram Das, a jobless Indian man who, tired of life in Calcutta, steals money from his father in order to afford a passage to Britain and while there, falls in love with a white woman.
A Casa e o Mundo
Nikhilesh Choudhury
Um fazendeiro rico convence sua esposa a romper com a tradição hindu e deixar os aposentos das mulheres para conhecer um de seus melhores amigos. A tensão aumenta quando ela se apaixona por ele e seus ideais políticos opostos ao do marido.
David Lean: A Life in Film
Self
A documentary video that profiles the life of David Lean, the director of Doctor Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia.
Passagem para a Índia
Dr. Aziz H. Ahmed
No final dos anos 20 Adela Quested (Judy Davis), uma rica inglesa de idéias liberais, viaja para fora do país pela primeira vez, indo à Índia para encontrar seu noivo. O choque cultural acontece, mas quando tudo parecia facilitar a integração Adela acusa o jovem Dr. Aziz (Victor Banerjee) de tentativa de estupro durante um passeio até as cavernas de Marabar.
Protidan
Gauri, an average girl from a village, falls in love with a wealthy man from the city, Samir. The unusual couple go through a series of turmoil after Samir goes abroad to study law.
Doosri Dulhan
Anil
Renu and her husband, Anil, are devastated when she cannot bear children after a miscarriage. But soon, he visits a brothel and asks young Chanda to carry and give birth to a baby for his family.
Arohan
Hari Mondal(Om Puri) is a poor village farmer who lives in the remote Bengal village of Giripur in Birbhum district with his wife, two sons, brother, an old widowed aunt Kalidashi (Gita Sen)and her daughter Panchi. The movie opens in the mid sixties when the Naxalbari uprising is spreading across Bengal and oppressed farmers are being united by youths who believe in communism and a socialist republic.
Madhuban
The story is as this is a story of the tribals of Jhalakpukur whose basic living rights are taken away by the mean money lenders who lend little money to them and charged them with a huge amount of interests which they could not repay. As a result, they suffered torture and harassment. Sulata was a contractor who was different and genuinely cared for the tribals. However her employer Sundaram was an extremely greedy man who not only inflicted suffering to the tribals but also longed to marry Sulata. Sulata meets Satinath, a man who would always protect the tribals from any harm and starts liking him. Sundaram does not take this appropriately and one night when Satinath was away, he and another money lender try to kill, Raghu, the tribal leader so that the tribals are thoroughly weakened. His attempt becomes futile when coincidentally Satinath arrives and saves Raghu. Satinath and Sulata together start looking after the interests of the tribal people from then onwards.
Pikoo
The lover
A day in the life of a six-year-old child in Calcutta, who lives shut up in the family home, insulated from the city by a park. The father is away at work. The grandfather is alone in his room, ill and confined to his bed. The mother receives her lover.
Dui Prithibi
Kunal Dutta
A middle-class family living a decent life suddenly come across an unexpected luxury that costs them an unwanted change in their life.
Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures
Georgie
This lighthearted romp through Royal India presents a world of Maharajas, palaces, imperiled art objects, and the foreign collectors who will stop at nothing to possess them. Peggy Ashcroft and Larry Pine star as two rapacious art collectors who come to the decaying Art Deco palace of a young Maharaja (Victor Banerjee) to examine a legendary collection of Indian miniature paintings. While vying with each other to get the pictures away from the royal couple—nicknamed Georgie and Bonnie as children by their Scottish governess—they must also divine the true motives of the Indian curator of the collection (Saeed Jaffrey), who, in league with the Maharaja’s beautiful sister (Aparna Sen), may be working against them. Amidst the backdrop of lavish tourist entertainments, Christmas parties, fireworks, and even an English ghost, a desperate game of palace intrigue will determine the ultimate resting place of the priceless paintings.
Os Jogadores do Fracasso
Prime Minister
A ação se passa em Lucknow, capital de Avadh, em cujo trono se senta Nawab Wajid, governante irresponsável, mas um refinado poeta e músico. Na mesma cidade vivem os amigos inseparáveis Mirza e Mir, cuja única ocupação na vida é jogar xadrez. Entretanto, um grande "jogo de xadrez", só que geopolítico, está sendo jogado pela East India Company. O governador-geral inglês Lorde Dalhousie está decidido a usar a negligência de Nawab para fazer da província de Avadh domínio britânico. Mirza e Mir ficam sabendo que tropas a serviço da Coroa Britânica estão se aproximando de Lucknow. Terrivelmente assustados, a dupla se refugia em um vilarejo isolado dos distúrbios políticos para continuar a disputar seus jogos sobre o tabuleiro.