---
name: "Ranibala"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ranibala"
fi1m_id: "ranibala"
imdb_id: "nm0222479"
tmdb_id: 13768
roles: ["Actor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T08:09:49.167805+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Ranibala

## Identity

Ranibala

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ranibala
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ranibala
- **IMDb ID:** nm0222479
- **TMDB ID:** 13768
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0222479/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/13768

Actor.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0222479/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/13768

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Aparajito*](https://film.one/film/aparajito.md) (84)

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## Biography

Ranibala was a Bengali actress and singer who appeared in Indian films from the silent era through the 1960s. She entered cinema in the early 1930s and performed in both leading and supporting roles, often drawing on her stage experience and singing voice for musical sequences.

She is credited as Teliginni in Satyajit Ray's *Aparajito* (1956) and as Giribala Dutta in his *Parash Pathar* (1958). Her other film credits include *The Light of Asia* (1925) and numerous titles from the 1930s and 1940s.

She died in 1956.

*Sources: imdb.com, rottentomatoes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Aparajito* (1956), Fi1m 84, as Teliginni — [page](https://film.one/film/aparajito.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

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

- *Sautela Bhai* (1962), Actor
- *The Philosopher's Stone* (1958), as Giribala Dutta
- *Aparajito* (1956), as Teliginni — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/aparajito.md)
- *Shyamali* (1956), Actor
- *The Power of Prayer* (1954), Actor
- *Kashti* (1954), Actor
- *Dasiputra* (1949), Actor
- *Station Master* (1942), as Bina
- *Tatinir Bichar* (1940), Actor
- *Nara Narayana* (1939), as Jayanti, Playback Singer
- *Bekar Nashan* (1938), as Reba, Playback Singer
- *Gora* (1938), as Sucharita

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