Konkona Sen Sharma is the daughter of Aparna Sen, an acclaimed director of Indian art film (known as “parallel cinema”), and she appeared in two of her mother’s award-winning films, Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (2002) and 15 Park Avenue (2005), both English-language movies. Prior to those, she appeared as a child actor in Indira (1983) and made her first film as an adult in the Bengali movie Ek Je Aachhe Kanya (2001). Her role as a misfit entertainment journalist in the Hindi film Page 3 (2005) put her on the Bollywood map. She won two Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Awards for her turns in Omkara (2006) and Life in a…Metro (2007) and was praised for her performances in the unsuccessful films Laaga Chunari Mein Daag (2007) with Rani Mukerji and Abhishek Bachchan, Aaja Nachle (2007) with Madhuri Dixit, and Luck by Chance (2009) with Farhan Akhtar. She finally had a hit in 2009 as the lead in Wake Up Sid opposite Ranbir Kapoor, and then another in 2010 in Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge? with Paresh Rawal and Ajay Devgan. Even though she’s landed some prominent roles in recent years, she’s still underutilized by the industry given her talent.
