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Kali Banerjee is a Actor Indian born on 20 november 1921 at Kolkata (Inde)

Kali Banerjee

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Nationality Inde
Birth 20 november 1921 at Kolkata (Inde)
Death 5 july 1993 (at 71 years)

Kali Banerjee (20 November 1921 – 5 July 1993) was an Indian film actor, who worked in the 1950s-70s in Bengali cinema. He is best known for his work with film directors like Satyajit Ray in Parash Pathar (1958) and Ritwik Ghatak in Nagarik (1952) and Ajantrik (1958).

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Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray
(3 films)
Ritwik Ghatak
Ritwik Ghatak
(4 films)
Chhabi Biswas
Chhabi Biswas
(5 films)
Mrinal Sen
Mrinal Sen
(3 films)
Tarun Majumdar
Tarun Majumdar
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Kali Banerjee (19 films)

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Sati
Sati (1989)
, 2h20
Directed by Aparna Sen
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films about disabilities
Actors Shabana Azmi, Arun Bannerjee, Kali Banerjee, Laboni Sarkar, Monu Mukhopadhyay
Rating70% 3.513333.513333.513333.513333.51333
The young Brahmin girl (Shabana Azmi) in this story has a disastrous horoscope. In an Indian village in 1828, this can be a real handicap. The fact that she is mute only compounds her difficulties. Her horoscope predicts that she will become a widow at an early age. If this turns out as predicted, in addition to being bad luck for her prospective husbands, it is bad luck for her, as she will, according to the customs of the time, have to commit suttee, sati. That means she will have to be burned alive on her husband's funeral pyre. To avoid this fate, her family has hit upon the appealing strategem of having her marry a banyan tree.
Dadar Kirti
Dadar Kirti (1980)
, 2h34
Directed by Tarun Majumdar
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Tapas Paul, Biswajit Chatterjee, Utpal Dutt, Debashree Roy, Mahua Roychoudhury, Ruma Guha Thakurta
Roles Saraswati, Beena father
Rating78% 3.908123.908123.908123.908123.90812
Kedar Chatujye (Tapas Paul), a dim-witted simpleton, is exiled to his uncle’s house in a small town in Bihar by his father, who is extremely angry with him for being unable to pass his B.A. exams after three attempts. The simple-minded Kedar becomes the butt of all jokes of his cousin Santu (Ayan Banerjee) gang of friends led by Bhombol Bhattacharjee also known as Bhombolda (Anup Kumar).
The Citizen
The Citizen (1977)
, 2h7
Directed by Ritwik Ghatak
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Actors Kali Banerjee, Anil Chatterjee, Shobha Sen
Roles his father
Rating78% 3.9488453.9488453.9488453.9488453.948845
Ramu, a fresh graduate is searching for a job like many others in post-Partition Kolkata. The mother is yearnful of older times when the family used to live in a better house, but she bears her suffering quietly, for the most part. The father is myopic and full of cynicism for he does not share the idealistic aspirations of his two children that better times will come. The light of Ramu's life is his girlfriend Uma, who lives in an equally precarious situation with her sister Shephali and her mother. Jatin is an even poorer minor character living near Uma's dwelling who Ramu avoids because he cannot help the former out financially. To make ends meet, Ramu's mother takes in Sagar, a poor chemist, as a paying guest. Ramu does not get a job and cannot pay rent even with the meagre money that he gets from Sagar and is insulted by the landlord. Ultimately the family is evicted.
Bawarchi
Bawarchi (1972)

Directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre
Themes Films about families
Actors Rajesh Khanna, Jaya Bachchan, Asrani, Usha Kiran, A. K. Hangal, Durga Khote
Roles Kashinath Sharma
Rating80% 4.044844.044844.044844.044844.04484
The story is centered around the squabbling Sharma family, headed by their eccentric Daduji (Harindranath Chattopadhyay), which has a dubious reputation of the inability to retain a cook for more than a few months due to their ill treatment of their servants. The family's disrepute spreads to such an extent that no person wants to be employed as a cook in their home, ironically named Shanti Niwas (abode of peace).
Three Daughters
Three Daughters (1961)
, 2h53
Directed by Satyajit Ray
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Actors Soumitra Chatterjee, Aparna Sen, Anil Chatterjee, Gita Dey, Kali Banerjee, Kumar Roy
Roles Phanibhusan Saha (segment "The Lost Jewels")
Rating78% 3.9402953.9402953.9402953.9402953.940295
The Postmaster Nandalal (Anil Chatterjee), a young man arrives from Calcutta as the postmaster of a small village Ratan (Chandana Banerjee), a pre-adolescent orphan girl, is his housekeeper/maid. Though only a child herself, she cooks, cleans and cares for Nandalal.
Under the Blue Sky
Under the Blue Sky (1959)
, 2h13
Directed by Mrinal Sen
Genres Drama
Actors Kali Banerjee, Bikash Roy
Rating74% 3.749263.749263.749263.749263.74926
Pathetic Fallacy
Pathetic Fallacy (1958)
, 2h
Directed by Ritwik Ghatak
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles
Actors Kali Banerjee, Tulsi Chakraborty, Anil Chatterjee
Roles Bimal
Rating74% 3.72843.72843.72843.72843.7284
Bimal is a taxi-driver in a small provincial town. He lives alone, his taxi (an old 1920 Chevrolet jalopy which he named Jagaddal) is his only companion and, although very battered, it is the apple of Bimal's eye. The film shows episodes from his life in the industrial wasteland, delivering people from one place to another.
Runaway
Runaway (1958)
, 2h4
Directed by Ritwik Ghatak
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Themes Children's films
Actors Kali Banerjee, Jahar Ray, Bijon bhattacharya, Jayanta Chattopadhyay
Rating80% 4.001924.001924.001924.001924.00192
Kanchan, all of eight years old is always up to pranks and mischief in his village home. He finds his father a cruel demon who keeps his mother oppressed and imprisoned. In his dreams, the big city is El Dorado, till he reaches there. But the glimpses of reality are harsher and the victims he meets give him a different view of the city. He himself has to struggle for survival and experiences life as it is, only to go back to his village home. This time as a mature person and with the realization that his father is no demon after all, but yet another victim struggling with poverty and still a loving father.
The Philosopher's Stone
The Philosopher's Stone (1958)
, 1h51
Directed by Satyajit Ray
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
Actors Kali Banerjee, Chhabi Biswas, Pahari Sanyal, Tulsi Chakraborty, Jahar Ray, Santosh Dutta
Rating75% 3.7900453.7900453.7900453.7900453.790045
Paresh Chandra Dutt (Tulsi Chakrabarti), a middle-class bank clerk in Kolkata, attends a charity match on a rainy day rather reluctantly. At Curzon Park (modern-day Surendranath Park), where the match is apparently to be held, he finds a small, round stone. Thinking it is a marble, he gives it to his nephew. The child discovers that it turns metal into gold (i.e. it is the Philosopher's stone).
Kabuliwala
Kabuliwala (1957)
, 1h56
Directed by Tapan Sinha
Genres Drama
Themes Children's films
Actors Chhabi Biswas, Kali Banerjee
Rating78% 3.9072153.9072153.9072153.9072153.907215
Rahmat (Chhabi Biswas), a middle-age fruit seller from Afghanistan, comes to Calcutta to hawk his merchandise. He befriends a small Bengali girl called Mini (Oindrila Tagore aka Tinku Tagore) who reminds him of his daughter back in Afghanistan. He stays at a boarding house with his countrymen.