Parno Mittra

Parno Mittra
Mittra at the premiere of Ami Ar Amar Girlfriends.
Born	Kolkata West Bengal, India
Residence	Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Actress
Notable work	Ranjana Ami Ar Ashbona

Parno Mittra^[1][2] is a Bengali film actress. She made her debut with Anjan Dutta's ‘Ranjana Ami Aar Ashbona^[3]’ and is known for playing strong characters on screen.^[4]

Early life

Parno Mittra was born in Kolkata. Since her father worked in Arunachal Pradesh, she spent a major part of her childhood there. She studied at Dow Hill School in Kurseong^[5] and Pratt Memorial School ^[6] in Kolkata. She was an athlete in her school.

Career

Parno Mittra's debut TV serial was 'Khela' which was a Ravi Ojha Production. She played the lead character 'Indira'. She acted in another popular Ravi Ojha Production, 'Mohona^[7]' as the lead character. She got the Best Actress^[8] award for Mohona. She acted opposite Abir Chatterjee in 'Shomoy' and played a character with negative shades in 'Bou Kotha Kau'.^[9]

She made her film debut with Anjan Dutt's 'Ranjana Ami Aar Ashbo Na'. The film received 3 National Awards^[10][11] for the Best Bengali Film, Special Jury Award and Best Music.

She starred opposite Parambrata Chattopadhyay as Ashima in director Kaushik Ganguly's 'Apur Panchali^[12]', which was screened at the 44th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in November 2013.^[13]

Some of her other notable films are 'Bedroom^[14]', 'Ami Aar Amar Girlfriends', 'Maach Mishti More^[15]' and 'Ekla Akash'. She played a double role in 'Glamour'.^[16]

In the year 2015, she had 3 releases: 'Bheetu^[17]', 'Glamour' and Srijit Mukherjee's 'Rajkahini'. Rajkahini^[18] is being made in Hindi as Begum Jaan^[19] which is being produced by Mahesh and Mukesh Bhatt.^[20] She acted in Pratim D Gupta's 'X Past Is Present' which featured Rajat Kapoor.^[21]

Parno Mittra has signed up for Bangladeshi director Mostafa Sarwar Farooki's^[22] bilingual international film featuring Irrfan Khan and Rokeya Prachy of Tareque Masud's 'The Clay Bird'.

Television

• Khela (Zee Bangla, Parno played role of a widow)
• Mohana (directed by Ravi Ojha).^[23]
• Bou Kotha Kau
• Shomoy

Filmography

Release date			Title	Director	CBFC rating	Producer	Composer	Character Played	Co Star
2011	June	24	Ranjana Ami Ar Ashbona	Anjan Dutt	A	Dag Creative Media	Anjan Dutt	Ranjana	Anjan Dutt
2012	January	6	Bedroom	Mainak Bhaumik	A	Rana Sarkar	Rupam Islam	Ritika	Rahul Banerjee
	June	8	Koyekti Meyer Golpo	Subrata Sen	A			Molly
	October	5	Ekla Akash	Sandipan Roy			Jeet Gannguli	Nisha
	November	23	Dutta Vs Dutta	Anjan Dutt				Diana
2013	January	4	Maach Mishti & More	Mainak Bhaumik	U/A			Sunaina aka Sunny
	May	10	Ami Aar Amar Girlfriends		A			Rhea
2015	April	25	Apur Panchali	Kaushik Ganguly	U/A	Shree Venkatesh Films	Indradeep Dasgupta		Ashima, Parambrata Chatterjee
	October	16	Rajkahini	Srijit Mukherjee	A			Golaap	Rituparna Sengupta, Abir Chatterjee
2015	February	6	Glamour	Mahua Chakrborty					Parambrata Chatterjee, Sabyasachi Chakrabarty
	August	26	Saheb Bibi Golaam	Pratim D. Gupta	A		Anupam Roy		Anjan Dutt, Swastika Mukherjee, Ritwick Chakraborty

References

1. "Parno's 'short' story". Retrieved 2016-06-23.
2. "Parno, Ranadeb glam up gym B\'day". www.indiablooms.com. Retrieved 2016-06-23.
3. Dutt, Anjan (2011-06-24), Ranjana Ami Ar Ashbona, retrieved 2016-06-23
4. "Women on top". Retrieved 2016-06-23.
5. "Heritage gutted at Dow Hill". Retrieved 2016-06-23.
6. "Parno Mittra". www.justbollywood.in. 2015-11-18. Retrieved 2016-06-23.
7. "Parno is chilled out - Times of India". Retrieved 2016-06-23.
8. "Parno is chilled out - Times of India". Retrieved 2016-06-23.
9. "Actress Parno Mitra Wiki Biodata Career Personal Details - Hindi Songs Lyrics". www.lyricsdelhi.com. Retrieved 2016-06-23.
10. "The bong connection at the national awards". Retrieved 2016-06-23.
11. "Vidya Balan bags National Award for The Dirty Picture". Retrieved 2016-06-23.
12. "Apur Panchali Movie Review, Trailer, & Show timings at Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2016-06-23.
13. "I don't take myself seriously as a filmmaker, says Kaushik Ganguly". 2015-12-05. Retrieved 2016-06-23.
14. "Parno and Mainak are a couple and we have proof! - Times of India". Retrieved 2016-06-23.
15. Bhaumik, Mainak (2013-02-17), Fish, Sweets & More, retrieved 2016-06-23
16. "Parno Mittra on being choosy and having no inhibitions on screen". Retrieved 2016-06-23.
17. "Bheetu: Of fear and pain". 2014-09-12. Retrieved 2016-06-23.
18. "Vidya Balan all set for partition tale 'Begum Jaan'". 2016-04-21. Retrieved 2016-06-23.
19. Hungama, Bollywood. "Vidya Balan's Begum Jaan gets Gauhar Khan, Pallavi Sharda, Ila Arun and Mishti on board | Bollywood News | Hindi Movies News | News - BollywoodHungama.com". Bollywood Hungama. Retrieved 2016-06-23.
20. Hungama, Bollywood. "Vidya Balan's Begum Jaan gets Gauhar Khan, Pallavi Sharda, Ila Arun and Mishti on board | Bollywood News | Hindi Movies News | News - BollywoodHungama.com". Bollywood Hungama. Retrieved 2016-06-23.
21. "Parno's 'short' story". Retrieved 2016-06-23.
22. "Irrfan Khan to star in Bangladesi director's film 'No Bed Of Roses'". 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2016-06-23.
23. "Spotlight Jack". Telegraph Calcutta. 20 October 2008. Retrieved 1 July 2012.

External links

• Parno Mittra at the Internet Movie Database
• Parno Mittra on Twitter