Paoli Dam
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Paoli Dam is an Indian Bengali
Bengali people
The Bengali people are an ethnic community native to the historic region of Bengal in South Asia. They speak Bengali , which is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian subcontinent, evolved from the Magadhi Prakrit and Sanskrit languages. In their native language, they are referred to as বাঙালী...

 actress. She is from Golf Road, Kolkata
Kolkata
Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...

 and came into prominence with her 2009 Bengali film - Kaalbela
Kaalbela
kaalbela is a 2009 Bengali film directed by Goutam Ghosh .The film is starring Parambrata Chatterjee, Paoli Dam, Santu Mukherjee and Soumitra Chatterjee. This film is set against the background of the Naxalite movement...

, directed by notable Director Gautam Ghose
Gautam Ghose
Goutam Ghose is one of the most acclaimed film directors of modern India. Born in Calcutta. Graduated from Calcutta University....

.

Education

She studied at the Loreto School, Bowbazar
Bowbazar
Bowbazar is a neighbourhood and police stationin central Kolkata, earlier known as Calcutta, in the Indian state of West Bengal...

 and later at the Rajabazar Science College of the University of Calcutta
University of Calcutta
The University of Calcutta is a public university located in the city of Kolkata , India, founded on 24 January 1857...

, from where she took a postgraduate degree in Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....

.

Career

Paoli had come into the focus after the success of Kaalbela
Kaalbela
kaalbela is a 2009 Bengali film directed by Goutam Ghosh .The film is starring Parambrata Chatterjee, Paoli Dam, Santu Mukherjee and Soumitra Chatterjee. This film is set against the background of the Naxalite movement...

 directed by Gautam Ghose
Gautam Ghose
Goutam Ghose is one of the most acclaimed film directors of modern India. Born in Calcutta. Graduated from Calcutta University....

. She won accolades for her performance. She was selected for a role in Italo Spinelli's film 'Choli Ke Peeche' after Shahana Goswami
Shahana Goswami
Shahana Goswami is an Indian actress who works in Bollywood films.-Career:Shahana had a single-minded focus on professional acting since childhood. She moved to Mumbai to complete her graduation and to explore the possibility of taking up acting as a career. In Mumbai, her first steps in acting...

 and Nandana Sen
Nandana Sen
-Early life:Sen was born in Kolkata, West Bengal to a Bengali Hindu family. She is the daughter of Nobel Laureate and Bharat Ratna economist Amartya Sen and Padma Shri winner Nabanita Dev Sen, one of the most prominent authors in the contemporary Bengali literature....

 backed out of the project citing excess of nudity involved. Paoli was chosen from a long list of 28 probables, and reportedly said that she has no inhibitions in shedding clothes if a role demands it. Paoli made her debut with the Bengali film Agnipariksha in 2006 and since then has done quite a few films. She was also featured in much talked about Shob Charitro Kalponik
Shob Charitro Kalponik
Sob Charitro Kalponik Aka Afterword , is a Bengali film by Rituparno Ghosh. The movie stars Bipasha Basu and Prosenjit Chatterjee.This movie is selected for the 30th Durban International Film Festival '09.-Synopsis:...

, Bipasha Basu
Bipasha Basu
Bipasha Basu is an Indian actress who mainly appears in Bollywood films. A former model, she was the winner of the Ford's Godrej Cinthol Supermodel contest in 1996.-Early life:...

's debut Bengali film directed by Rituparno Ghosh
Rituparno Ghosh
Rituparno Ghosh is a Bengali film director. He has won 8 National Film Awards in India and several awards at international film festivals abroad.- Early life and background :...

.

Italian director Italo Spinelli has chosen Paoli to play a tribal woman in his forthcoming film Choli Ke Peechhe, based on a short story by Mahasweta Devi
Mahasweta Devi
Mahasweta Devi is an Indian social activist and writer.- Biography :Mahasweta Devi was born in 1926 in Dhaka, to literary parents in a Hindu Brahmin family. Her father Manish Ghatak was a well known poet and novelist of the Kallol era, who used the pseudonym Jubanashwa...

. Shera Bangali is an award given by Star Ananda to those Bengalis who have not only achieved excellence in their respective fields but have also helped to bring Bengal in the national as well as international limelight. Paoli Dam has received the award for Shera Bangali New Face 2009 .. Paoli Dam is also featuring in the new movie Chatrak where she has enacted a full frontal nudity creating huge controversies.

Filmography

Agnipariksha >
Year Film Director Co-stars Remarks
2011 Chatrak (Mushrooms) Vimukthi Jayasundara
Vimukthi Jayasundara
Vimukthi Jayasundara is an award winning Sri Lankan film director.-Early life:Vimukthi Jayasundara was born in Ratnapura, Sri Lanka. He was educated at Mahinda College, Galle. Vimukthi began his cinematic career as a journalist, film critic and screenwriter. He attended the Institute for Film and...

 
Sudip Mukherjee
Sudip Mukherjee
Sudip Mukherjee is a Bengali film and TV actor.- Filmography :*Hello Kolkata*Jaara Brishtite Bhijechhilo *Kantatar .... Binod-External links:...

 
Premiered at Cannes, also shown at Toronto film festival.
2010 Moner Manush Gautam Ghose
Gautam Ghose
Goutam Ghose is one of the most acclaimed film directors of modern India. Born in Calcutta. Graduated from Calcutta University....

 
Prosenjit Chatterjee released
Actor Aalive Unreleased ..... Junior CBI Officer
Bangla Banchao Unreleased
Banshiwala Shayan Munshi
Shayan Munshi
Shayan ShayaMunshi is an Indian model turned actor who made his debut in the 2003 Bollywood film Jhankaar Beats. Haylinwho is from KolkzimiVJ and actress Peeya Rai Chowdhary in 2006. Shayan has also been seen in music videos and films like My Brother Nikhil....

 
Released
Hurumtaal Unreleased.....Twinkle
Jhar Sheshe Unreleased
Kagojer Bou Released: February 4, 2011.....Preiti
Mati O Manush
Mati O Manush
Mati O Manush was a pioneering television programme in Bangladesh Television. Starting from the mid 1980s, it brought revolution to the agricultural sector of Bangladesh. It was hosted by Shykh Seraj....

Unreleased
Takhan Teish
Takhan Teish
Takhan Teish is the second feature film of Atanu Ghosh which was premiered at the 6th Osaka International Film Festival,Japan.-Cast:*Jisshu Sengupta as Tamodeep*Indrani Halder as Meghna*Paoli Dam as Mohini*Rajatabha Dutta as Sandipan...

Atanu Ghosh
Atanu Ghosh
Atanu Ghosh is a critically acclaimed Bengali film director and screenwriter-Biography:After completing post-graduation in journalism from the University of Calcutta, Atanu Ghosh started his career in 1996 as scriptwriter and director of documentary films, the first series being Pioneers of Indian...

 
Jisshu Sengupta, Aparajita Ghosh Das, Tanusree Shankar
Tanusree Shankar
Tanusree Shankar is one of the leading dancers and choreographers of contemporary dance in India and is based in Kolkata, India. She earned her fame as a danseuse as the leading dancer of the Ananda Shankar Centre for Performing Arts in the 1970s and 1980s.Tanusree Shankar was born in Calcutta...

, Rajatabha Dutta, Biswajit Chakrabarty, Biplab Chatterjee
Biplab Chatterjee
Biplab Chatterjee is a Bengali Indian male actor and director of television and films.-Early life:Biplab was born on 8 July in Kolkata. In 1962, he passed higher secondary from Park Institution and graduated from Anandamohan College, an affiliate of the University of Calcutta in 1965.-Career:Biplab...

, Neel Mukherjee, Locket Chatterjee, Indrani Halder 
Released: January 21, 2011.....Mohini
Thana Theke Aschi Saran Dutta  Parambrata Chatterjee
Parambrata Chatterjee
Parambrata Chatterjee is a Bengali Indian male actor and director of television and films.-Career:His directorial debut feature film is [Jiyo Kaka] starred by Rituparna Sengupta and Rudranil Ghosh....

 
Released: February 3, 2010.....Sandhya Mondol
2009 Tinmurti
Shob Charitro Kalponik
Shob Charitro Kalponik
Sob Charitro Kalponik Aka Afterword , is a Bengali film by Rituparno Ghosh. The movie stars Bipasha Basu and Prosenjit Chatterjee.This movie is selected for the 30th Durban International Film Festival '09.-Synopsis:...

Prosenjit Chatterjee, Bipasha Basu
Bipasha Basu
Bipasha Basu is an Indian actress who mainly appears in Bollywood films. A former model, she was the winner of the Ford's Godrej Cinthol Supermodel contest in 1996.-Early life:...

, Sohag Sen 
Kajori Roy
Mallick Bari Purnima
Box No. 1313 Parambrata Chatterjee
Parambrata Chatterjee
Parambrata Chatterjee is a Bengali Indian male actor and director of television and films.-Career:His directorial debut feature film is [Jiyo Kaka] starred by Rituparna Sengupta and Rudranil Ghosh....

 
Jamai Raja
Jamai Raja
Jamai Raja is a comedy-drama Hindi film of 1990. The film features Hema Malini, Anil Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit.The film is directed by A. Kodandarami Reddy and is a remake of 1989's Tamil film Mappilai starring Srividya, Rajnikanth and Amala.-Plot:Durgeshwari Devi is a very rich and proud lady...

Swapan Saha
Swapan Saha
Swapan Saha is a noted Indian film director.-His speciality:With the air of somebody who has achieved the impossible Swapan Saha says, "I've just completed Sat Bhai . It took 10 days, cost Rs 11 lakh and was shot within 100 hours." For Saha, this is about par...

 
Prosenjit Chatterjee
Kaalbela
Kaalbela
kaalbela is a 2009 Bengali film directed by Goutam Ghosh .The film is starring Parambrata Chatterjee, Paoli Dam, Santu Mukherjee and Soumitra Chatterjee. This film is set against the background of the Naxalite movement...

Gautam Ghosh  Soumitra Chatterjee
Soumitra Chatterjee
Soumitra Chatterjee or Soumitra Chattopadhyay is an iconic Bengali actor from India, known among other things for his frequent collaborations with the great Bengali film director Satyajit Ray and his constant comparison with the Bengali screen idol Uttam Kumar.-Background:Soumitra graduated from...

, Parambrata Chatterjee
Parambrata Chatterjee
Parambrata Chatterjee is a Bengali Indian male actor and director of television and films.-Career:His directorial debut feature film is [Jiyo Kaka] starred by Rituparna Sengupta and Rudranil Ghosh....

Madhabilata
2007 I Love You (2007 film)
I Love You (2007 film)
I Love You is a Bengali film by Ravi Kinagi. This movie is quie similar plot to Maine Pyar Kiya directed by Sooraj R. Barjatya...

Rabi Kinagi
Rabi Kinagi
Rabi Kinagi is a Bengali and Oriya film diector, editor,scripwriter.-Director:* Poran Jaye Jolia Re * Bhalobasa Bhalobasa 2008* Premer Kahini 2008* I Love You 2007...

 
Dev (actor)
Dev (actor)
Dev is a Bengali film actor. His original name is Deepak Adhikari. He was born in 'Mahisha' a small village near Keshpur, West Midnapur, West Bengal. He spent his childhood in Chandrakona at his maternal uncle's place.After finishing his primary education, he returned to Mumbai to his parents...

Guest Appearance
Tulkalam
Tulkalam
Tulkalam is a Bengali film made in 2007. An action subject, based on land scam in Bengal.-Cast:*Mithun Chakraborty*Rajatava Dutta*Rachana Banerjee*Amitava Bhattacharya*Biplab Chattopadhyay*Hara Pattanayak*Mrinal Mukherjee*Anamika Saha...

Haranath Chakraborty
Haranath Chakraborty
Haranath Chakraborty is a noted Indian Bengali film director. He is the most prominent director of the Bengali film Industry. He is assistant director of Anjan Chowdhury Group...

 
Amitava Chakraborty
Tin Yaari Katha Abhijit Guha Parambrata Chatterjee
Parambrata Chatterjee
Parambrata Chatterjee is a Bengali Indian male actor and director of television and films.-Career:His directorial debut feature film is [Jiyo Kaka] starred by Rituparna Sengupta and Rudranil Ghosh....

, Rudranil Ghosh
Rudranil Ghosh
Rudranil Ghosh is an Indian Bengali actor of TV and films.-Awards:* 2007: BFJA - Best Supporting Actor Award for both Kantatar and Refugee* 2011: Zee Bangla'r Gourab - Best Actor in a Negative Role for Byomkesh Bakshi-Filmography:...

, Neel Mukherjee, Gargi Roychowdhury

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