Most Underrated · Women
Konkona Sen Sharma
कोंकणा सेन शर्मा
“Two National Awards, a Berlinale-selected film as director, and mostly cast as the sensible friend.”
- Screen debut
- 2002
- Best in
- Omkara (2006)
- Also see
- Wake Up Sid · Talvar · Lipstick Under My Burkha · 15 Park Avenue · Ramprasad Ki Tehrvi
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The case
Her Indu in Omkara is the moral centre of the film and gets perhaps eleven minutes. She has since directed A Death in the Gunj, which is better than most films she has acted in. The industry's inability to build a vehicle around her is a straightforward failure of imagination.
Where to start
Begin with Omkara (2006). It's in this canon — read our entry on it. Then work through Wake Up Sid, Talvar, Lipstick Under My Burkha.
See how we defined “underrated” and why some obvious names are missing in our methodology essay.
In the canon