
Urmila Mahanta
Acting
Biography
Urmila Mahanta is an Indian actress. A student of the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, Mahanta appeared in various plays, short films and television series, before making her feature film debut in the critically acclaimed 2012 Tamil crime thriller Vazhakku Enn 18/9.
Known For

Akira Sharma is your average Jane from Jodhpur. Early in life she sees an atrocity committed on a neighbour and learns to defend herself. And, a spitfire is born.
Akira

Upon realizing the extent to which women are affected by their menses, a man sets out to create a sanitary pad machine and to provide inexpensive sanitary pads to the women of rural India.
Pad Man

After his wife passes away trying to cross a mountain, Manjhi, out of sheer rage, sets on a quest to carve a road through the treacherous mountain.
Manjhi: The Mountain Man

The Police emergency control room receives a call from a woman, who sounds troubled and wants to commit suicide. As officer Nikhil tries to calm her down, he discovers that the hysterical woman has bought a gun. When asked, she tells him to stay tuned to find out about her real intentions. But as time progresses, Nikhil figures out that the woman has sinister intentions and his family is in danger.
Dial 100

Venu works at a roadside shop and loves Jyothi, a maidservant in the nearby apartments. Before Venu gets a chance to express his love to her, she meets with an accident and he is arrested.
Vazhakku Enn 18/9

An agonizing tale of love and desire, focusing on the difference of power, social values and respect for others among the different classes of the society.
Chirodini Tumi Je Amar 2

Four folk tales from Assam re-imagined as a narrative about four mothers, each facing demons of her own.
Kothanodi: The River of Fables

Three women in a developing suburb of Mumbai - a domestic worker, a government pre-school helper and a software professional - struggle to realise their dreams and claim autonomy in a chaotic, patriarchal and unforgiving urban landscape, as their lives intersect in small, unexpected ways.
Powai

Erstwhile lovers have a chance meeting two decades later and they stay together a few days exploring the emotions hitherto not shared, the man proves to be the ideal friend to the lady in distress.
Oruvattam Koodi

Fathered by a politician's loveless extramarital passion, Torali's life is a quest for sanctuary from her father's loveless world, but her intent to uncover his transgression gets her trapped in a mental asylum. In that very trap, she finds Samiran who takes up her fight against the wrongs of a patriarchal world.
Antareen

Glimpses of lives from a village in Assam reveal the relationship between its history and the present. People’s lives and beliefs are entangled with ecological strings , as nature stands witness to the narratives that unfolded there. A young boy, Rahul, hopes to write a book on his experience of growing up in this village. His mother, being deeply connected with nature can sense messages and signs arising from nature.. Urmila, a pregnant lady, is driven by sensorial experiences. But, In contrast to the serenity and harmonious living; there lurks a violent societal past.These peaceful and quiet lives intersect in a space where traumatic memories of death and loss in Assam’s thirty years of secessionist movement keep resurfacing.
A Letter to Home

The Resonance (Anunaad) focuses on the soul-tearing topic of bridal slavery occurring in some parts of India. The film opens in a sleepy rural area surrounded by tea gardens where girls dream of migrating to other parts of the country to escape the poverty and hopelessness in which their families are plunged. Lured by a nexus of brokers and human traffickers, they begin a journey from the lush green fields of Assam to the dry, foggy winter of Haryana, in Northern India, where they risk being trafficked as purchased brides and face a life of constant humiliation and violence at the hands of their husbands and their families.
The Resonance

Its a romentic movie, directed by Rajesh Jashpal with association with SAI DRISHTI Films and RAGA Films
Kuch Khoyi Khoyi Baatein

Three characters: a lonely fisherman, a young rickshaw puller and a single mother, all coincidentally named Bokul find their lives connected when a young stranger comes to town.
Bokul

Assam Film (Fianance and Development) Corporation Limited has produced the film under the banner of J.K Enterprise. “TRP aru…” depicts the story of current trend in broadcasting media's crazy run to enhance their Television Rating Points (TRP). The Script is written by Manimala Mahanta.