Karuna Banerjee

Acting

Karuna Banerjee

Born 1919-12-25 Khulna, Bangladesh 11 films

Karuna Banerjee (Bengali: করুণা ব্যানার্জী) was a Bengali actress best known for her role in Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy (1955–1959) as the long suffering mother, Sarbajaya. She was nominated for Best Actress at the 1959 BAFTA Awards for her performance in Aparajito (1956), the second part of The Apu Trilogy. She appeared in a number of other films after that, including Ray's Devi (1960) and Kanchenjungha (1962). She graduated from the Jogamaya Devi Co…

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Filmography

11 films
Apur Panchali poster

Arko, a film student, invites Subir Banerjee, who played the legendary role of Apu, to attend an aw…

Apur Panchali

★ 6.0 2014

Calcutta 71 poster

The spirit of a condemned 20-year-old student wanders through time, linking together four stories o…

Calcutta 71

★ 8.6 1972

Interview poster

A young Indian man has been assured by an uncle that all he needs to land a lucrative job is to sho…

Interview

★ 7.1 1971

Kanchenjungha poster

Played out in real time, several complex family dramas intersect in the landscape of the Himalayan…

Kanchenjungha

★ 7.6 1962

Devi poster

A devout upper-class Hindu has a vision in a dream that his daughter-in-law is the human incarnatio…

Devi

★ 7.5 1960

Headmaster poster

The school of a remote and poor village shut down, the head master Krishna Prasanna (Chhabi) migrat…

Headmaster

★ 9.0 1959

Shubha Bibaha poster

When a bride vanishes on her wedding day, a web of secrets and forbidden love is exposed. Caught in…

Shubha Bibaha

★ 7.0 1959

Aparajito poster

Apu and his family have moved away from the country to live in the bustling holy city of Benares. A…

Aparajito

★ 7.8 1956