Victor Banerjee Filmography

Occupation:: Actor, Director, Screenwriter

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Ta Ra Rum Pum

Actors: Saif Ali Khan, Rani Mukherjee, Jaaved Jaaferi, Ali Haji, Angelina Idnani

Synopsis: An energetic young pit-crew mechanic works his way up to stock car driver -- and meets the love of his life along the way -- in this high-spirited Bollywood musical. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide Read More

4/27/07
The Bong Connection

Actors: Parambrata Chatterjee, Raima Sen, Shayan Munshi, Peeya Rai Choudhary, Victor Banerjee

Synopsis: Two young men find themselves dealing with the ins and outs of Bengali culture on different sides of the globe in this comedy-drama from Indian filmmaker Anjan Dutt. Apu (Parambrata Chatterjee) is a successful computer technician who is looking for greater career opportunities, and decides to Read More

2006
Home Delivery

Actors: Vivek Oberoi, Mahima Chaudhry, Boman Irani, Mahima Choudhary, Ayesha Takia, Saurabh Shukla, Tiku Talsania, Arif Zakaria

2005
My Brother...Nikhil

Actors: Sanjay Suri, Purab Kohli, Juhi Chawla, Victor Banerjee, Lillete Dubey

Synopsis: My Brother...Nikhil isn't the first Hindi film to deal with AIDS, but unlike, say, Phir Milenge, which was essentially a Bollywood remake of Philadelphia with a heterosexual woman in the Tom Hanks role, My Brother...Nikhil is about a closeted gay man who contracts HIV, shattering his seemingly Read More

2004
Bhoot

Actors: Ajay Devgan, Urmila Matondkar, Nana Patekar, Rekha, Fardeen Khan

5/30/03
Mahaprithivi

Actors: Soumitra Chatterjee, Gita Sen, Victor Banerjee, Anjan Dutt

Synopsis: When the Calcutta family in this drama discovers the body of their grandmother, who has hanged herself, they are understandably upset. In their efforts to understand the event, old family secrets are uncovered and fresh fuel is added to old fires, creating new rifts and alliances. ~ Clarke Read More

1992
Bitter Moon

Actors: Peter Coyote, Emmanuelle Seigner, Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas, Victor Banerjee

Synopsis: A perverse, dark-humored comedy drama, Bitter Moon crosses the line into intentional camp more often than not in its tale of a kinky cripple Oscar (Peter Coyote) and his beautiful wife Mimi (Emmanuelle Seigner). Oscar ensnares a proper British man, Nigel (Hugh Grant) on an ocean-liner and makes Read More

1992
Dadah Is Death

Actors: Julie Christie, John Polson, Hugo Weaving, Victor Banerjee, Sarah Jessica Parker

Synopsis: This two-part TV movie, produced in Australia, was based on the tragically true story of an Australian teenager (John Polson) condemned to death for dealing in drugs in Malaysia. Part One set up the circumstances which landed Polson and his friend Hugo Weaving on Malaysia's death row. In Part Two Read More

1988
Foreign Body

Actors: Victor Banerjee, Warren Mitchell, Geraldine McEwan, Denis Quilley, Amanda Donohoe

Synopsis: Victor Banerjee, the India-born star of David Lean's A Passage to India, is the central figure of director Ronald L. Neame's Foreign Body. Jobless in Calcutta, Banerjee steals money from his own father to afford passage to Britain. There he makes contact with his cousin Warren Mitchell, who Read More

9/26/86
A Passage to India

Actors: Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox, Alec Guinness

Synopsis: A Passage to India, director David Lean's final film (for which he also received editing credit), breaks no new ground cinematically, but remains an exquisitely assembled harkback to such earlier Lean epics as Doctor Zhivago and Ryan's Daughter. Based on the novel by E. M. Forster, the film is set Read More

1984
The Home and the World

Actors: Soumitra Chatterjee, Swatilekha Chatterjee, Jennifer Kapoor

Synopsis: Released in India as Ghare Baire, Home and the World offers a rare collaboration between that country's top director Satyajit Ray and versatile Indian film-personality Victor Banerjee. The latter plays a well-educated Hindu living in colonial East Bengal in 1908. When British governor-general Lord Read More

1984
Jaipur Junction

1982
An August Requiem

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Tanuja

Synopsis: When a ship's purser returns home from a voyage, his wife has committed suicide and he discovers that she was pregnant, the result of an affair with her boss when she was his secretary. Intent on avenging the death of his wife, the sailor seeks employment with her old boss, who has no problem in Read More

1982
Arohan

1982
Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures

Actors: Peggy Ashcroft, Victor Banerjee, Larry Pine, Aparna Sen, Saeed Jaffrey

Synopsis: Produced for British TV by the Merchant-Ivory-Jhabvala triumvirate, this India-based comedy was released theatrically in the US. Victor Banerjee, best known to American audiences for his star turn in David Lean's A Passage to India, plays a young rajah named George, while Aparna Sen portrays his Read More

1978
The Chess Players

Actors: Richard Attenborough, Amjad Khan, Sanjeev Kumar, Saeed Jaffrey, Shabana Azmi

Synopsis: Based on a story by Munshi Premchand, and much influenced by Vsevolod Pudovkin's 1925 film Chess Fever, this satirical film by noted Indian director Satyajit Ray is set in colonial India in 1856. The British Resident of the East India Company (Richard Attenborough) has observed that the monarch of Read More

1977