GEETANJALI THAPA

GEETANJALI THAPA – Film Actress

Geetanjali Thapa was born and brought up in Sikkim to Nepali descent parents. She did her schooling at Sikkim and thereafter moved to Kolkata for graduation, where she was a model before joining films. She won the Mega Miss North East 2007 beauty pageant held at Guwahati, Assam.

Geetanjali’s debut short English film was Myth (2006) that was made in Sikkim, directed by Prashant Rasaily, when she was still in school. Her first Hindi film Tina Ki Chaabi (2010) with Ranvir Shorey never saw the light of day but her next film I.D. directed by Kamal K.M. got her two international awards for best actress — at the Los Angeles Film Festival and the Madrid Film Festival. In the critically acclaimed Liar's Dice, Geetanjali plays a courageous and somewhat recklessly irresponsible lovely lady from the high Himalayas and mother to a precocious little daughter in search of her missing husband. She also won the Best Actress award for the same film at the New York Indian Film Festival 2014.

Geetanjali stars opposite Emraan Hashmi in Oscar-winning director Danis Tanovic's Indian film White Lies.

She won the National Film Award for Best Actress (2013) for her performance in Liar's Dice.

Her works include:

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2012	I.D.	Charu	Best Performance, Los Angeles Film Festival 2013 Best Actress, ImagineIndia Award 2013, Madrid
2013	Monsoon Shootout	Anu
2013	That Day After Every Day	Lady who hits the 'goon in the bus'
2014	Liar's Dice	Kamala	Best Actress, 61st National Film Award Best Actress, 14th Annual New York Indian Film Festival
2014	White Lies		Post-production
2015	Tigers (film)	Zainab	Post Production