1. Mahua Raychowdhury
Mahua Raychowdhury was the penned name for Shipra Roy Choudhary. She was given this name by director Tarun Majumdar. She belonged to a lower class family and was spotted by Tarun Majumdar, and also groomed by Sandhya Roy. Nilanjan Roychoudhary, her father, was a dancer by profession. So, because of her father to she always loved dancing. She sustained all qualities in her.
She was beautiful, charming, good as an actor and also an excellent dancer. Dancing abilities are what usually lacked by Bengali's, but she had that too in her. She became famous in a very short span. She was known to be the Queen of Bengali Cinema. She made her debut in acting with Sriman Prithviraj...
Age:
65
Gender:
Female
2. Kanan Devi
Kanan Devi donned the role of both acting and singing in Bengali cinema. She was one of the leading singing celebrities of Indian film industry. She sang in fast tempo and it was the main reason behind the greatest hits given by New Theatres, Kolkata. Hailing from Howrah in West Bengal, Kanan Devi saw the world first on 22nd April 1916. Kanan was adopted and after the demise of her adoptive dad she had to earn her living by herself. She indeed struggled in her initial stages of life. It is believed t...
Date of Death:
17-07-1992
Age:
108
Gender:
Female
3. Rituparna Sengupta
Rituparna Sengupta is as Indian actress who has contributed to Hindi and mostly Bengali cinema throughout her career. Born on 7th November, 1971, she was on her way to a Master’s degree in Modern History, when her education got interrupted by a golden chance to appear on screen. Her first role was in “Shwet Pathorer Thala” in 1992, directed by Prabhat Roy. Her entrance in the industry was a dazzling one, mainly because her debut role showed plenty of the negative side. Never attending any acting school or lessons, she claims her acting skills all arise from the active years of stage performances she has done in school.
Her profile is filled with numerous movies in Bengali and Hindi. In 2013, she entered Mollywood when she was casted by Soha...
Age:
52
Gender:
Female
4. Suchitra Sen
Suchitra Sen was a renowned and respected Indian film actress, mostly played characters in Bengali films. She is well known for her work in 'Saat Paake Bandha' which fetch her Silver Prize at 1963's Moscow International Film Festival. In 1963, she was awarded one of the India's highest civilian award ‘Padma Shree.’
Suchitra Sen was born in Bari village of Sirajgonj district of Bangladesh to Late Karunamoy Das Gupta. She is also the granddaughter of famous poet Rajanikanta Sen. She debuted in Bengali films in the year 1952 through ‘Shesh Kothay.’ However due to some reasons, the film went unreleased. Next to this, she appeared with Ut...
Date of Death:
17-01-2014
Age:
93
Gender:
Female
5. 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....
Age:
82
Gender:
Female
6. Arundhati Devi
Arundhati Devi, born to Bibhuticharan Guha and Thakurta, on 29th April 1924, was an Indian actress, writer, singer, and director from Barisal ( now Bangladesh) known for her works in the Bengali film industry. Her excellent work in the industry made her an evergreen actress and is still considered one of the greatest and finest talents in the Bengali film industry. She is an alumnus of Visva-Bharati University, where her Guru Sailajaranan Majumdar trained her in Rabindra Sangeet. All India Radio marks her debut as a Rabindra Sangeet singer in 1940.
With the film Mahaprasthaner Pathe( by Kartik Chattopadhyay), she made her debut as an actress in the Bengali film industry in the year 1952. She is best known for her work in the film...
Date of Death:
16-10-1990
Age:
100
Gender:
Female
7. 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 Death:
26-01-2018
Age:
89
Gender:
Female
8. Aparna Sen
A vetern filmmaker and actress, Aparna Sen has been in the industry for over half a century. Born on 25th October 1945 in Calcutta, she completed her Bachelor’s in Arts from Kolkata’s Presidency College. She showed an interest for films even before graduating as she appeared in Teen Kanay, a Satyajit Ray film, at just the age of sixteen. As an actress Sen has appeared in over 62 films throughout her career, the last of which was in 2014’s Chotushkone. She has worked heavily in both Indian and Bengali films and received various prizes throughout her career including the Moscow Film Festival’s Best Actress award for her ...
Age:
78
Gender:
Female
9. Sandhya Roy
Sandhya Roy was born in the Nabadip district in West Bengal, and she has acted in nearly fifty films, all of them in the Bengali language. She has been a popular figure in the Bengali film industries since 1960’s, but apart from her film career, she is a prominent figure in the political spheres as well, after being nominated as a member of the Parliament from the Medinipur constituency, representing All India Trinamul Congress. Regarding her movie career, she was never particular about the roles she got as she had a deep passion for acting, regardless of the magnitude of the role that she had to play.
This versatile nature of her was what perhaps made her one of the...
10. Debashree Roy
Debashree Roy is not only an actress but also a politician and social activist. Her place of birth is Kolkata. She was born to Birendra Kishore Roy (father) and Arati Roy (mother). From childhood, Roy is very passionate towards dancing and acting. She has an elder sister Purnima Roy. She took her dancing lessons from her elder sister and her mother as well. Debashree has acted in Bengali, Tamil, and Malayalam movies. In Tamil film industry she is known as ‘Chintamani.’ She used her name ‘Kumari Chumki’ as a child actress. Her debut film as a child artist is ‘Balak Gadadhar’ directed by Harimoy Sen in 1969. Then, giving her debut film, she acted in ‘Khueli’ directed by Tarun...
Age:
62
Gender:
Female
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