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Also known as Suchitra Sen

Indian actress (1931–2014)

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Type
Person
Country
IN
Active from
1933-02-01
Active to
2018-01-15

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Key facts

Born
Roma Dasgupta AKA Krishna , ( 1931-04-06 ) 6 April 1931, Hemsagor lane, Pabna , Bengal Province , British India
Died
17 January 2014 (2014-01-17) (aged 82), Kolkata , West Bengal , India
Occupation
Actress
Years active
1953–1978
Works
Filmography
Spouse
Dibanath Sen ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1947 ; died 1970 ) ​
Children
Moon Moon Sen
Relatives
Raima Sen (granddaughter), Riya Sen (granddaughter)
Awards
Padma Shri (1972), Banga Bibhushan (2012)

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Roma
Family name
Dasgupta
Gender
female
Citizenship
British Raj
Place of birth
Pabna
Place of death
Kolkata
Occupation
film actor
Languages spoken
English language
Religion
Hinduism
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date of death
2014-01-17
date of birth
1931-04-06
cause of death
myocardial infarction
Commons category
Suchitra Sen
manner of death
natural causes
birth name
রমা দাশগুপ্ত
start of work period
1952-00-00
end of work period
1979-00-00
ethnic group
Bengali Hindus
name in native language
সুচিত্রা সেন
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Encyclopedic overview

Suchitra Sen ( Bengali: [ʃuˈt͡ʃitːra ˈʃen] ; born Roma Dasgupta, Bengali: [ˈrɔma ˈdaʃɡupto] ; April 6, 1931 – January 17, 2014), widely known as the Mahanayika (lit. 'Great actress'), was an Indian actress who worked in Bengali and Hindi cinema. The movies in which she was paired opposite actor Uttam Kumar became classics in the history of Bengali cinema.

Sen was the first Indian actress to receive an award at an international film festival when, at the 1963 Moscow International Film Festival, she won the Silver Prize for Best Actress for Saat Pake Bandha. She was catapulted to stardom after she was cast as Vishnupriya by Devaki Kumar Bose in his Bhagaban Shree Krishna Chaitanya (1953).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Roma Dasgupta” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.