Bidita Bag

Bidita Bag
Bidita Bag as show-stopper in Lakme Fashion Week, August 2012
Born	Santragachhi, Howrah, West Bengal, India
Occupation	Actress, model
Years active	2010–present
Height	5'7"

Bidita Bag (Bengali: বিদিতা বাগ) is an Indian actress and a professional model. She has a varied portfolio when it comes to print advertisements, TV commercials and films. She is mostly known for her inclination towards socio-political films.

Early life

Bidita is from Santragachhi, Howrah, West Bengal. She was born into a Bengali Hindu family of Indian state of West Bengal. She attended Kendriya Vidyala, Santragachi and completed her pre-university studies from Kendriya Vidyalaya Fort William in Science. She graduated in Economics from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. She is a trained Classical singer and loves painting.

Career

While in college, Bidita pursued a career in modelling. She was spotted by Jeena Mitra Banik and ace make-up artist Late Prabeer Kumar Dey.She came into limelight in Kolkata after working for designers like Sabyasachi Mukherjee and Kiran Uttam Ghosh. After graduation she shifted her base to Mumbai. She has worked for Lakme fashion week, Lakme Elle-18, Vaseline, Nokia, Motorola, Colgate, Reliance. Recently she has been face of brands like Fair and Lovely, 7UP, Horlicks, Samsung Corby TV, Wild Stone deodorant, Kwality Walls Cornetto, Indian Terrain, Bombay Dyeing etc. In 2011 she debuted in critically acclaimed Bengali film Icche. Her first Hindi feature film-a socio-political thriller- "As The River Flows", is produced by NFDC, and is currently in post production. She plays the role of an Assamese village girl co-starring Sanjay Suri and Victor Banerjee. Her first commercial Bollywood venture under Pramod Films called From Sydney with Love was released on 31 August 2012. She received positive reviews for her performance in the film. Her upcoming projects include X, "19th January" directed by Sanjay Amar and "Gun Pe Done' directed by Abhik Bhanu starring Jimmy Shergill,

Filmography

Year	Film	Language	Director	Character	Cast	Notes
2015	Bhaunri - The Sinking Reality	Oriya	Sudhangshu Mohan Sahu	Janha	Arindam Roy, Mihir Das	Released
2014	Gun Pe Done	Hindi	Abhik Bhanu	Sanjana	Jimmy Shergill, Vijay Raaz, Vrajesh Hirjee	Filming
2014	X	Hindi	11 Directors	Heena	Rajat Kapoor, Huma Qureshi, Swara Bhaskar	Post Production
2014	19 January	Hindi	Sanjay Amar	Masrat	Deepti Naval, K. K. Raina	Filming
2013	Kagojer Nouka	Bengali	Parthasarathi Joardar	Nusrat	Soumitra Chatterjee, Victor Banerjee, Rajesh Sharma	Released.
2013	Target Kolkata	Bengali	Kartick Singh	Maya	Arindam Roy, Suhasini Mulay, Sreela Majumdar Arindam Sil	Released
2012	Ekhon Nedekha Nodir Xhipare	Assamese	Bidyut Kotoky	Sudakshina	Sanjay Suri, Victor Banerjee, Rajendranath Zutshi	simultaneously made in Hindi. "As The River Flows". Assamese version Released.
2012	From Sydney with Love	Hindi	Prateek Chakravorty	Megha Banerjee	Sharad Malhotra, Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, Evelyn Sharma	Released
2011	Icche	Bengali	Shiboprosad Mukherjee and Nandita Roy	Jayanti Laha	Samadarshi Dutta, Bratya Basu, Sohini Sengupta	Released
2011	Mukti	Bengali	Gautam Haldar	Haasi	Raakhee Raakhee Gulzar, Samadarshi Dutta	Post-Production