Daminee Benny Basu has been brought up on stage from her childhood as a trained singer-actor.
She is an acclaimed performance-artist and a coach for actors.
Her orientation has been very close to the Indian theatre for the last thirty-five years.
On stage she has worked with directors like Soumitra Chattopadhyay, Asit Basu, Usha Ganguly, Bibhash Chakraborty, Debesh Chattopadhyay, Arun Mukhopadhyay, Suman Mukhopadhyay, Anjan Dutt to name only a few.
Daminee Benny is a known name in cinema as well, where she has acted, coached and researched as a consultant for directors like Rituparno Ghosh, Vishal Bhardwaj, Kaushik Ganguly, Shoojit Sircar, Srijit Mukherji, Anik Dutta, Raj Chakraborty, Indranil Roychowdhury and Parambrata Chattopadhyay.
After Suman suffers an accident, the two women in his life - Meghna, the wife, and Shubhra, the ex-wife - are compelled to meet each other. Ardhangini revolves around the awkward emotional duel between the two wives - past and present - in a time of personal crisis.
This independent feature film is about Gour, a speech-impaired little boy, and his life and adventures in a village in rural West Bengal. The film was crowdfunded by 930 residents of Aranghata village in the district of Nadia, who raised around ₹19L for the making of the film.
A woman tries to uncover the mystery behind a series of mysterious packages from an anonymous sender that threaten her marriage.
Stuti Sanyal, a terminally ill woman who lost her husband in an aviation accident, takes a train to Vellore from her home town, Kolkata. Little does she know that the journey will bring a roller coaster ride of emotions, as a stranger in the train narrates three stories to her. Each one teaches her something about the essence of life, culminating in a life-changing experience.