Uma Sashi (1915 – 6 December 2000) was an Indian Bengali film actress who appeared in many roles from 1929 to 1951. Her on-screen pairings with actors such as Durgadas Bannerjee, K. L. Saigal, Pahari Sanyal and Prithviraj Kapoor were popular in those days.
Uma Sashi (1915 – 6 December 2000) was an Indian Bengali film actress who appeared in many roles from 1929 to 1951. Her on-screen pairings with actors such as Durgadas Bannerjee, K. L. Saigal, Pahari Sanyal and Prithviraj Kapoor were popular in those days.
== Early life == Uma Sashi was born in 1915 in a poor Brahmin family of Calcutta. Her father, Nilmani Chattopadhyay, originally came from Dhaka, East Bengal, British India, but later settled in Calcutta. He was a Kirtan artist and sometimes acted as a Jatra artist in a local Jatra group. As a child, Uma received very little formal education in a local school due to poverty. She received dance and music training from the age of four. Miss Satkari Ganguly was her first music and dance teacher. As Satkari Ganguly was herself an actress, she introduced Uma Sashi to the stage and theatre, where she started work as a group dancer in theatrical plays like Minerva, Alfred and Russa. Soon after, she started playing minor roles and became a part of a touring Jatra group from Kolkata to different parts of undivided Bengal like Chittagong, Cox's Bazar etc. She was a perfectionist and received elocution lessons from several Hindi, Urdu and English tutors to perfect pronunciation of these languages. After her Debut in Bangabala a silent movie she had to quit the stage because the authorities would not allow their paid staff to work in films.
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