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By Jurgen Fauth & Marcy Dermansky, About.com

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Tannishtha Chatterjee on Nazeen in :

“Nazneen in Brick Lane has been my biggest challenge so far, because she's not Indian,” Chatterjee said in an interview with DNA. “She's is a Bangladeshi immigrant who becomes a British national. She ages from 17-35 and has three children. My grandparents came from Rajshahi in Bangladesh, so I absorbed details like the food or the way you nazar utaro (ward off the evil eye).”

Tannishtha Chatterjee: Her Career in Film:

The career of Bollywood actress Tannishtha Chatterjee's is soaring. She stars as Nazneen in the film Brick Lane based on Monica Ali's novel.

Chatterjee is also the lead in Shadows of Timea film Bengali by German director Florian Gallenberger.

She will later be seen in Ravi Kumar's Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain. The story follows a young rickshaw puller who gets a menial job at a chemical plant amidst the 1984 Union Carbide industrial disaster.

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