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name: "Meneka Das"
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born: "3 May 1976"
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average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-20T07:54:59.243155+00:00"
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# Meneka Das

Director. Born 3 May 1976 in India.

## Details

- **Born:** 3 May 1976, India
- **Active:** 2010–2018
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111623500, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1374868/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/108578

## Biography

Meneka Das is an Indian-born actress, director and writer. She moved to London to pursue work in theatre and film, and trained at the Lee Strasberg Institute and using the Ivana Chubbuck technique.

As an actress she is known for playing Jer Bulsara in the 2018 film *Bohemian Rhapsody*, Sunita in the 2005 television film *The Girl in the Café*, and a role in Mike Leigh’s *Another Year* (2010). Stage credits include Amina in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of Salman Rushdie’s *Midnight’s Children*. As a director her credits include the 2006 feature *Little Box of Sweets*, the 2016 short *La Lune Folle*, and seven episodes of the 2021 series *The Dumping Ground*.

*Sources: imdb.com, browngirlmagazine.com, essexmagazine.co.uk, newsdipper.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Bohemian Rhapsody* (2018), Fi1m 55, as Jer Bulsara — [page](https://film.one/film/bohemian-rhapsody.md)
- *Another Year* (2010), Fi1m 87, as Mr. Gupta's Friend — [page](https://film.one/film/another-year.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *We've Only Just Begun* (2023), as Rumi · Writer, Director
- *Bohemian Rhapsody* (2018), as Jer Bulsara — Fi1m 55, [page](https://film.one/film/bohemian-rhapsody.md)
- *Crazy Moon* (2016), Director
- *Another Year* (2010), as Mr. Gupta's Friend — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/another-year.md)
- *Little Box of Sweets* (2006), as Asha · Writer, Director
- *The Girl in the Café* (2005), as Sunita
- *Elskede Poona* (2003), series, as Poona Bai
- *It Might Be You* (1995), as Islamic woman
- *Mermaids*, Executive Producer

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