Taranjit Kaur

Biography

Taranjit Kaur is an Indian actress, known for her role in Raju (2011)[link=tt1819651, an Oscar winning film (2012). Raju (2011) Raju (2011) won the Student Oscar Academy award in 2012 for best short film. She has played a major role in the critically acclaimed film, Ankhon Dekhi (2013)Ankhon Dekhi (2013) directed by Rajat Kapoor https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0438494/?ref_=nv_sr_1, adjudged the second best film of 2014. She played the role of a coal miner in a BAFTA nominated film, Mouth of hell (2014)Mouth of Hell (2014), directed by Samir Mahanovic https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2376325/?ref_=nv_sr_1 She played a cameo in Airlift (2016), directed by Raja Menon. She has played diverse roles in her upcoming films including Murder On the road to Kathmandu (2018) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8706386/?ref_=nv_sr_5, directed by Rupalee Verma https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9974857/?ref_=tt_ov_dr. She has also acted in Adrishya, a TV series on spies of India, as Durgadevi, one of the first women revolutionaries of India, and won huge appreciation for her expressions and intense performance. Taranjit Kaur is a trained theatre actor who has worked as a professional actor with Sahitya Academy Awardee director, Neelam Mann Singh Chowdhary. She has performed in National as well as International theatre Festivals. She has been part of many theatre productions as well as short films. She turns a producer and writer this year with her short film Loving Myself (2019) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10111546/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1, directed by Sreemoyee Bhattacharya https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5575768/?ref_=nv_sr_1. Her upcoming films in 2019 include Do Writers Ki Maut, Khel Khel Mein and One Secret Red.