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Celina Jaitly to make her acting comeback with Nibedita, biopic on social activist Sister Nivedita
9:12 AM
Upala KBR (MID-DAY; July 4, 2026)
Often actors choose the movies they want to front. But Celina Jaitly believes that her next movie, Nibedita, chose her. The actor, who is returning to face the camera six years after the short film, Season’s Greetings (2020), will step into the role of Irish-Indian educator and social activist Sister Nivedita in the biopic directed by Ram Kamal Mukherjee.
Set to roll in early 2027, Nibedita will chronicle how Margaret Elizabeth Noble met Swami Vivekananda in London and was so influenced by his teachings that she moved to Calcutta in 1898.
Over the following years, she — having adopted the name Nivedita — turned a passionate advocate for girls’ education and women’s empowerment in India. For Jaitly, it’s a matter of pride to portray the activist.
“I never imagined that four years after collaborating with Ram Kamal Mukherjee for Season's Greetings, our paths would cross for a story of such spiritual significance. As a little girl, I wandered through the peaceful grounds of Sister Nivedita’s last home in Darjeeling, not knowing that one day I would be entrusted with bringing her life to audiences,” she said.
According to the National Film Award-winning director, Sister Nivedita’s life journey is a story “waiting to be told”, and Jaitly, the right choice for it. He shared, “While making Binodiini [2025], I was reading books on Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda. That’s when I came across Sister Nivedita’s journey, and decided to make a movie.”
I was more of a beauty queen than an actor in the eyes of directors-Celina Jaitly
8:55 AM
Titas Chowdhury (HINDUSTAN TIMES; July 29, 2021)
Celina Jaitly Haag’s comeback project, Season’s Greetings, has been winning multiple awards at film festivals across the globe. Recently, she also won an award for best actor. After her big success, the actor says she has been receiving a plethora of offers.
She shares, “I feel extremely blessed to make such a phenomenal comeback. I never left the film industry; it was time to take a pause and rethink the direction I wanted to take both as a woman and as an actor. I have lots of amazing offers as well as plans.”
Haag reveals that she will soon be seen in a comedy project, a genre she loves and trusts as her “highest plus point”. “Covid travel restrictions are making me refrain from travelling. But I am working on something fascinating and hilarious,” she adds.
The actor, who was last seen in feature films Thank You and Shrimathi (both 2011), admits that now is the time to explore her creativity since showbiz has undergone a major transformation: “I was a teenager, when I started working in cinema. I was more of a beauty queen than an actor in the eyes of directors, and I too was learning. I had the talent within me but I did not know how to channel it.”
Haag signs off saying she has no plans of shifting base to India in the near future.
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