Tillotama Shome

Tillotama Shome is, to my mind, a conscience of Indian independent cinema. Born in Kolkata in 1979 and educated at New York University, she could have chased commercial stardom after breaking through in Monsoon Wedding, but instead built a career on soulful, character-driven work, crowned by her Filmfare Critics Award for Sir. I admire actors who choose substance over spectacle, and she does it with rare consistency. Running her own official site, she strikes me as fiercely independent in spirit as well as in filmography. She is exactly the kind of performer who deserves a far wider audience.

Name (English)

Tillotama Shome

Name (Japanese)

ティロタマ・ショーム

Reading

てぃろたま・しょーむ

Born

June 25, 1979 (age 47)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Goat

Origin

Kolkata, India

Occupation

actor / film actor

University

New York University

• Official sitehttps://www.tillotamashome.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/TillotamaShome
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillotama%20Shome
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AD%E3%82%BF%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2433720

Tags

• actor
• film actor

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.