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1. Madhabi Mukherjee

Madhabi is a National Award-winning Indian Actress who is considered one the great actresses of Bengali cinema. She had performed amazingly well in most critically acclaimed films. She got into the theater at an early age. In 1960, she played in Mrinal Sen’s Baishey Shravan. Ritwik Ghatak’s Subarnarekha was her next major film in 1962, though in 1965 it was released. She got the opportunity to work with Satyajit Ray in the early 1960s. Along with winning numerous awards, she wrote her autobiography in 1995. She is married to a Bengali film actor Nirmal Kumar, but right now, they are not together. She is a mother of two daughters....

Date of Birth: 10-02-1942

Age: 82

Star Sign: Aquarius

Gender: Female

Language: Bengali

Skills: Movie Actress

Madhabi Mukherjee Biography

Date of Birth: 10-02-1942

Age: 82

Star Sign: Aquarius

Gender: Female

Language: Bengali

Skills: Movie Actress

2. Sabitri Chatterjee

Sabitri Chatterjee is an Indian actress. She has mainly worked in Bengali cinema. Her contribution to the Bengali film industry is for more than 50 years. She is one of the most honored and respected by the young generation. She has worked with famous filmmakers such as Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen and many more. She was born in the Comilla District’s small town of Kamalapur. It is now in the region of Bangladesh. She had ten sisters, and Sabitri was the youngest of them all. During the partition of Bengal, she went to her sister’s place in Kolkata. Her sister was married in Tollygunge. It is considered as the main center for film and its making in Kolkata. During the early days, she started with thea...

Date of Birth: 21-02-1937

Age: 87

Star Sign: Pisces

Gender: Female

Language: Bengali

Skills: Movie Actress

Sabitri Chatterjee Biography

Date of Birth: 21-02-1937

Age: 87

Star Sign: Pisces

Gender: Female

Language: Bengali

Skills: Movie Actress

3. Miss Shefali

Arati Das, popularly known as Miss Shefali, was an actress and dancer who had mainly worked in the Bengali industry; popularly known as The Queen of Cabaret. She first started cabaret at 11 years of age. Arati Das made her first debut in 1968 with the film Chowringee, starring Supriya Devi and Uttam Kumar; her notable works include- Hum Kiss Kum Naheen (1977), Blackmail (1973), and Ustad 420 (1969). Some of her well-known plays include- Saheb Bibi Golam, Samrat O Sundari, Ashlil, and many more; she was also a writer; her autobiography includes -Sandhya Rater Shefali. Her dancing skills gained appreciation in the films- Seemabaddha (1971) and Pratidwandi (1970) M...

Date of Birth: 1944

Date of Death: 06-02-2020

Gender: Female

Language: Bengali

Skills: Movie Actress, Dancer

Miss Shefali Biography

Date of Birth: 1944

Date of Death: 06-02-2020

Gender: Female

Language: Bengali

Skills: Movie Actress, Dancer

4. Supriya Devi

Supriya Devi is a very famous Bengali actress. She has been in Bengali cinemas for more than 50 years now. Her friends and relatives know her by the name ‘Benu’. She was born in Burma in January, 1935. Her father was from Faridpur, Bangladesh and later moved to Calcutta during World War II. Her father was a lawyer by profession. Supriya entered the film industry at the age of 7. She was a trained dancer under Guru Maruthappan Pillai and Guru Prahlad Das. In 1954, she got married to Bishwanath Choudhury. She has a daughter named Soma. Some of her renowned films are ‘The Namesake’ (2006) where she played the role of Ashima’s Grandmother, ‘Shesh Thikana’ (2000) where she was seen as Sri Radha’s grandmother, ‘Devdas’ (1979) as ‘ Chandramu...

Date of Birth: 08-01-1935

Date of Death: 26-01-2018

Age: 89

Star Sign: Capricorn

Gender: Female

Language: Bengali

Skills: Movie Actress

Supriya Devi Biography

Date of Birth: 08-01-1935

Date of Death: 26-01-2018

Age: 89

Star Sign: Capricorn