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.

Career record Wikipedia — Konkona Sen Sharma · data last revised 9 August 2026 · debut year and filmography are read from that article; no award count, box-office figure or rating is claimed here

Editorial Selection as one of the twenty most underrated, and the case made for it — not a measurement · last revised 9 August 2026 · signed by Amit Sharma · the scoring is published in full so the machinery can be argued with, not just the result

In the canon

Konkona Sen Sharma appears in 4 films on this list