Won Best Picture Award at the Bari International Film Festival in Italy Love Express (2016) Pensando en el The Answer (2018). Starred as Paramahansa Yoganand,the film won a record 17 major International Awards & 48 Nominations. High Life (2018) (English language film) Josef Born in Grace (2019) dir Susant Misra Sannyasi Deshonayok (2020) Awards and nominations Civilian Awards 2022 — Padma Bhushan — India's third highest civilian award. Film awards Political career Banerjee unsuccessfully contested the 1991 Lok Sabha election in Calcutta North West from the Bharatiya Janata Party. He got 89,155 votes and stood third. As an active member of the BJP, he was critical of Mulayam Singh Yadav's order to shoot the Karsevaks who had once climbed the Babri Masjid prior to its demolition. He has been highly critical of what he called Navjot Singh Sidhu's pacifist attitude to terrorism exported from Pakistan. References External links 1946 births Living people Male actors in Bengali cinema Indian male film actors Male actors from Kolkata Male actors from Dehradun University of Calcutta alumni Male actors in Hindi cinema Indian male television actors Best Supporting Actor National Film Award winners Bengali male television actors 20th-century Indian male actors 21st-century Indian male actors Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from West Bengal Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in arts People associated with Shillong