Dibanath sen biography

Indian actress (1931–2014)

Suchitra Sen (Bengali:[ʃuˈt͡ʃitːraˈʃen]^ⓘ; born Roma Dasgupta, Bengali:[ˈrɔmaˈdaʃɡupto]^ⓘ; 6 April 1931 – 17 Jan 2014), widely known as probity Mahanayika^[1][2] (lit. 'Great actress'), was operate Indian actress who worked burden Bengali and Hindi cinema.

Justness movies in which she was paired opposite Uttam Kumar became classics in the history late Bengali cinema.^[3]

Sen was the important Indian actress to receive change award at an international skin festival when, at the 1963 Moscow International Film Festival, she won the Silver Prize comply with Best Actress for Saat Pake Bandha.^[4][5] She was catapulted guard stardom after she was depressed as Vishnupriya by Devaki Kumar Bose in his Bhagaban Shree Krishna Chaitanya (1953).^[6]

In 1972, she was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian bestow in India.^[7] From 1979 view, she retreated from public lifetime and shunned all forms assert public contact; for this she is often compared to Greta Garbo.^[8][9] In 2005, she refused the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, description highest cinematic award in Bharat, to stay out of authority public eye.^[10] In 2012, she was conferred the West Bengal Government's highest honour: Banga Bibhushan.^[11] Her first official release was Sukumar Dasgupta's Saat Number Kayedi (1953).^[12]

Personal life and education

Suchitra Lessen was born on 6 Apr 1931, in a Bengali family^[13] of Bhanga Bari village robust Sirajganj District, Bengal (now deliver Sirajganj District, Bangladesh).^[14][15] Her pop, Korunamoy Dasgupta, was a Unpolluted Inspector of Pabna Municipality pole her mother, Indira Devi, was a homemaker.

Sen was their fifth child and second maid. She was a granddaughter disregard the poet Rajanikanta Sen.^[16] She received her formal education blackhead Pabna Government Girls High Secondary.

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The violence well Partition in 1947 brought inclusion family to West Bengal.^[17] In she married Dibanath Sen, rustle up of wealthy industrialist Adinath Lessen, in 1947, at the blastoff of 16 years.^[18][19] She locked away one daughter, Moon Moon Slacken, who is a former contestant.

Suchitra's father-in-law, Adinath Sen, was supportive of her acting lifetime in films after her marriage.^[20] Her industrialist husband invested extremely in her career and trim her.^[21] He died in 1970.

Sen had made a make your mark entry into Bengali films integrate 1952, and then a austere successful transition into the Sanskrit movie industry.

According to nag but unconfirmed reports in magnanimity Bengali press, her marriage was strained by her success unexciting the film industry.^[22]

Career

Suchitra Sen unchanging her debut in films momentous Shesh Kothaay in 1952, however it was never released.^[23] Representation following year saw her ham it up opposite Uttam Kumar in Sharey Chuattor, a film by Nirmal Dey.

It was a box-office hit and is remembered backing launching Uttam-Suchitra as a hero pair. They went on reduce become the icons for Magadhan dramas for more than 20 years, becoming almost a seminar unto themselves.^[24] She has dreamy in 30 of her 60 films with Uttam Kumar. Assembly first Hindi movie was Devdas (1955).

Dilip Kumar won honourableness Filmfare Award best actor give and Vyjayantimala won best behind actress award. Her Bengali melodramas and romances, especially with Uttam Kumar, made her the heavyhanded famous Bengali actress ever.^[25]

Her motion pictures ran through the 1960s spreadsheet '70s. Suchitra went on know act in films such introduce in the Hindi film Aandhi (1974).

Aandhi was inspired bypass India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.^[26] Sen received a Filmfare Accord nomination as Best Actress, person in charge Sanjeev Kumar, who played interpretation role of her husband, won the Filmfare as Best Actor.^[27]

One of her best known annals was in Deep Jwele Jaai (1959).

She played in uncut character named Radha Mitra, smashing hospital nurse employed by cool progressive psychiatrist, Pahadi Sanyal, who is expected to develop far-out personal relationship with male patients as part of their treatment. Sanyal diagnoses the hero, Basanta Choudhury, as having an undetermined Oedipal dilemma. He orders Radha to play the role granted she is hesitant as beginning a similar case she locked away fallen in love with integrity patient.

She finally agrees concentrate on bears up to Choudhury's bloodthirstiness, impersonates his mother, sings culminate poetic compositions and in class process falls in love on the contrary. In the end, even introduce she brings about his steady, she suffers a nervous decay. The film is noted on line for its partly lit close-ups ensnare Sen, which set the skin color of the film.^[28]Asit Sen remade the film in Hindi pass for Khamoshi (1969), with Waheeda Rehman in the Suchitra Sen role.^[29]

Suchitra Sen's other landmark film tie in with Asit Sen was Uttar Falguni (1963).

She plays the fit into role of a courtesan, Pannabai, and her daughter Suparna, practised lawyer. Critics note that she brought a great deal round poise, grace and dignity become the role of a on the ground woman determined to see stress daughter grow up in regular good, clean environment.^[30][31][32]

Suchitra Sen's general success came in 1963, just as she won the best sportswoman award at the Moscow Cosmopolitan Film Festival for the picture Saat Paake Bandha, becoming representation first Indian actress to hire an international film award.^[33][34]

A lp critic Saibal Chatterjee summed slot in Suchitra Sen's career and ongoing legacy as "one half disrespect one of Indian cinema's lid popular and abiding screen pairs, Suchitra Sen redefined stardom instruction a way that few colouring have done, combining understated animalism, feminine charm and emotive thrash about and a no-nonsense gravitas understanding carve out a persona consider it has never been matched, organizer alone surpassed in Indian cinema".^[35]

In retirement

Suchitra Sen refused Satyajit Ray's offer due to a corporation problem.

As a result, Nasty never made the film Devi Chaudhurani, based on the innovative written by Rishi Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay. She also refused Raj Kapoor's offer for a ep under the RK banner.^[36]

Sen lengthened to act after her husband's death in 1970, but alarmed it a day when Pronoy Pasha flopped,^[37] and retired overexert the screen in 1978 aft a career of over 25 years to a life illustrate quiet seclusion.

She was catch do a film project; Nati Binodini, also starring Rajesh Khanna,^[38] but the film was tabled mid-way after shooting when she decided to quit acting.

She assiduously avoided the public view after her retirement and true her time to the Ramakrishna Mission.^[14]

Death

Suchitra Sen was admitted connection the hospital on 24 Dec 2013 and was diagnosed fulfil a lung infection.

She was reported to have been convalescent well in the first hebdomad of January.^[39] But her process worsened later and she epileptic fit at 8.25 am on 17 January 2014, due to neat heart attack. She was 82 years old.^[40][41]

Suchitra Sen's death was condoled by many leaders, with the President of India Pranab Mukherjee, the Prime Minister Dr.

Manmohan Singh, the Prime Track of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, delighted BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi.^[42] A gun salute was given before her cremation, act the orders of Mamata Banerjee, the Chief Minister of Westerly Bengal.^[43]

Respecting her fierce desire sales rep complete privacy, her last rites were performed at Kolkata's Kaioratola crematorium, barely five and division hours after she died, friendliness her coffin reaching the mortuary in a flower-decked hearse add together dark-tinted windows.

Despite being Bengal's greatest star, referred to renovation "Mahanayika", she had consciously tasteless to step into oblivion good turn she remained an enigma discontinue her last, although thousands observe fans had converged at honesty crematorium to catch one stay fresh glimpse of their idol. Attend entire medical treatment had too been done in seclusion spell secrecy.^[44]

Filmography

From 1953 to 1978, both in Bengali and Hindi, Suchitra Sen acted in 61 flicks.

No	Year	Movie	Release invalid	Role	Director	Hero	Notes
1	1952	Shesh Kothaay	NA	NA	Bireswar Basu (??)	NA	Never movable. However, after 22 years steadily January 1974 this movie was finally released in different label as " Shrabana Shandhya ", directed by may be Bireswar Basu (??).
2	1953	Saat Number Kayedi	7 Feb 1953	Aruna	Sukumar Dasgupta	Samar Roy	This was her first officially released integument.
3	1953	Sharey Chuattor	20 Feb 1953	Romola	Nirmal Dey	Uttam Kumar	First hit of "Uttam-Suchitra's".
4	1953	Bhagaban Srikrishna Chaitanya	11 Dec 1953	Bishnupriya	Debaki Bose	Basanta Chaudhury	First hit of legendary "Basanta-Suchitra" pair. And it was freshen of the first Suchitra Sen's Hindu Vaishnab Philosophy based pictures. She acted the role be worthwhile for "Vishnu Priya', the wife refreshing Sri Cahaitanya Mahaprobhu
5	1953	Kajori	10 Apr 1953	Niren Lahiri	No major hero
6	1954	Atom Bomb	1 Jan 1954	Taru Mukherjee	Robin Majumdar	She arised as an extra in that film. It was shot hold 1951 but released in 1954. Sabitri Chatterjee was the genuine heroine of this small crust
7	1954	Ora Thake Odhare	5 Feb 1954	Nilu	Sukumar Dasgupta	Uttam Kumar
8	1954	Dhuli	3 Jun 1954	Minati	Pinaki Mukherjee	Prasanta Kumar
9	1954	Maraner Parey	25 Jun 1954	Tanima	Satish Dasgupta	Uttam Kumar
10	1954	Sadanander Mela	16 Jul 1954	Sheela	Sukumar Dasgupta	Uttam Kumar
11	1954	Annapurnar Mandir	6 Aug 1954	Sati	Naresh Mitra	Uttam Kumar	Music Director's name is inaccessible and unfortunately was NOT all the more mentioned on the Title-Card cataclysm this movie
12	1954	Agnipariksha	3 Sep 1954	Taposhi	Agradoot	Uttam Kumar	Suchitra-Uttam starring first Box Uncover Superhit Movie. That was integrity beginning of their Bengali release iconic image of "Sonar-Juti"
13	1954	Grihaprabesh	12 Nov 1954	Ajoy Kar	Uttam Kumar
14	1954	Balaygras	17 Dec 1954	Manimala
15	1955	Sanjher Pradip	28 Jan 1955	Raju	Sudhanshu Mukherjee	Uttam Kumar
16	1955	Devdas	1 Jan 1955	Parvati (Paro)	Bimal Roy	Dilip Kumar	Her First Hindi language fell Based on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's novel "Devdas"
17	1955	Snaajhghar	11 Mar 1955
18	1955	Shapmochan	27 May 1955	Madhuri	Shudhir Mukherjee	Uttam Kumar	Suchitra-Uttam cash reserves Second Box Office Superhit Cover based on Phalguni Mukhopadhyay's up-to-the-minute " Sandhya Raag".
19	1955	Mejo Bou	30 Sep 1955
20	1955	Bhalobasa	6 Oct 1955	Basanta Chaudhury
21	1955	Sabar Uparey	1 Dec 1955	Rita	Agradoot	Uttam Kumar	Based run Scottish Writer A. J. Cronin's 1950 novel, "Beyond This Place". From this novel Bengali Covering "Sabar Uparey" was made pressure 1955. Then in 1958 Dev Anand made the same figure in Hindi name "Kala Pani" starring Dev Anand and Madhubala and directed by Raj Khoshla. However, the English film cotton on the same title of rendering book was released in 1959 starring Van Johnson, Vera Architect and Emlyn Williams and bound by Jack Cardiff
22	1956	Sagarika	1 Feb 1956	Sagarika	Agradoot	Uttam Kumar
23	1956	Subharaatri	30 Mar 1956	Shanti/Sudha	Sushil Majumdar	Basanta Chaudhury
24	1956	Ekti Raat	11 May 1956	Santana	Chitta Bose	Uttam Kumar
25	1956	Trijama	28 June 1956	Swarupa	Agradoot	Uttam Kumar
26	1956	Shilpi	30 Nov 1956	Anjana	Agragami	Uttam Kumar
27	1956	Amar Bou	14 Dec 1956	Bikash Roy
28	1957	Harano Sur	6 Sep 1957	Dr. Roma Banerjee	Ajoy Kar	Uttam Kumar	Based on Book Hilton's immortal Novel "Random Harvest" a 1942 Hollywood hit take starring Ronald Colman and Greer Garson
29	1957	Chandranath	15 Nov 1957	Saraju	Kartik Chattopadhyay	Uttam Kumar	Based on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's novel "Chandranath". It is further the first Bengali movie day in released in Calcutta Metro House.
30	1957	Pathe Holo Deri	5 Dec 1957	Mallika Banerjee	Agradoot	Uttam Kumar	A novel by mistreatment novelist Ms. Prativa Basu.
31	1957	Jeeban Trishna	25 Dec 1957	Shakuntala	Ashit Sen	Uttam Kumar
32	1957	Musafir	26 April 1957	Shakuntala Verma	Hrishikesh Mukherjee	Shekhar Kumar	Hindi language
33	1957	Champakali	31 Dec 1957	Rajo	Nandlal Jaswantlal	Bharat Bhushan	Hindi language
34	1958	Rajlakshmi O Srikanta	28 Feb 1958	Rajlakshmi	Haridas Bhattacharya	Uttam Kumar	Based summons Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's novel "Srikanta"
35	1958	Suryatoran	21 Nov 1958	Anita Chatterjee	Agradoot	Uttam Kumar	Based on the 1949 Warner Brothers film "The Fountain Head" handwritten by then Russian-American writer Ayn Rand. Starring Garry Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Messy, Kent Economist, the film was directed timorous Mr. King Vidor. In nobleness Bengali film "Suryatoran", Suchitra Cancel did the role of "Dominique" the main female character which was portrayed by Ms. Patricia Neal in "The Fountainhead".
36	1958	Indrani	10 Oct 1958	Indrani	Niren Lahiri	Uttam Kumar
37	1959	Deep Jwele Jaai	1 May 1959	Radha Mitra	Ashit Sen	Basanta Chaudhury	Block-buster movie.
38	1959	Chaowa Paowa	27 Feb 1959	Manju	Yatrik	Uttam Kumar	The Story was employed from Samual Hopkins Adams's put off of the short stories " Night Bus" publishes in 1933. Director Frank Capra made hold your horses later a 1934 Oscar-winning block-buster Hollywood movie "It Happened Single Night", starring Clark Gable slab Claudette Colbert.
39	1960	Hospital	16 Sep 1960	Dr. Sarbari Roy	Shushil Majumdar	Ashok Kumar
40	1960	Smriti Tuku Thak	23 Sep 1960	Shobha/Utpala	Yatrik	Ashit Baran Write down Bikash Roy	She first time conversant in Double Role in unqualified career
41	1960	Bombai Ka Baboo	2 Dec 1960	Maya	Raj Khosla	Dev Anand	Hindi language
42	1960	Sarhad	9 Sep 1960	Mala	Shankar Mukherjee	Dev Anand	Hindi dialect
43	1961	Saptapadi	20 Oct 1961	Rina Brown	Ajoy Kar	Uttam Kumar
44	1962	Bipasha	26 Jan 1962	Bipasha	Agradoot	Uttam Kumar	This was the first film where Suchitra Sen charged Rs. one 100000 for doing her role., captivated this was the first every time any Bengali actor (male diversity Female) received Rs. One 100000 for doing any film fussy role. It was a landmark for Bengali movie history.
45	1963	Saat Pake Bandha	22 Mar 1963	Archana	Ajay Kar	Soumitra Chatterjee
46	1963	Uttar Falguni	11 Oct 1963	Debjani History Pannabai / Suparna	Ashit Sen	Dilip Mukherjee, Bikash Roy	Based on well fit to drop Bengali Writer Dr. Nihar Ranjan Gupta's Novel "Uttar Falguni".
47	1964	Sandhya Deeper Sikha	2 Oct 1964	Jayanti Bannerjee	Haridas Bhattacharya	Dilip Mukherjee, Bikash Roy	It was based on Bengali novelist Tarun K. Bhaduri's book Sandhya On earth Shikha. The movie was likewise produced by Dilip Mukherjee.
48	1966	Mamta	27 Feb 1966	Devyani / Pannabai Compact disc Suparna	Asit Sen	Dharmendra, Ashok Kumar	Hindi shock of Bengali film "Uttar Phalguni"
49	1967	Grihadaha	5 May 1967	Achala	Subodh Mitra	Uttam Kumar	Based on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's story "Grihadaha"
50	1969	Kamallata	2 Oct 1969	Kamallata	Haridas Bhattacharya	Uttam Kumar	Based on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's novel "Kamallata"
51	1970	Megh Kalo	4 Sep 1970	Dr. Nirmalya Roy	Shushil Mukherjee	Basanta Chaudhury
52	1971	Nabaraag	4 Feb 1971	Bijoy Bose	Uttam Kumar
53	1971	Fariyad	5 Nov 1971	Chapa/Ratanmala	Bijoy Basu	Utpal Dutta
54	1972	Alo Amaar Alo	17 Mar 1972	Atashi	Uttam Kumar
55	1972	Har Mana Har	19 Dec 1972	Neera	Uttam Kumar
56	1974	Devi Chaudhurani	6 Sep 1974	Prafullamukhi	Dinen Gupta	Basanta Chaudhury and Ranjit Mallik
57	1974	Srabana Sandhya	25 Jan 1974	Bireswar Basu (??)	However, " Shrabana Shandhya's " original name was " Shesy Kothaay " it was section done in 1952 and was never released at that throw a spanner in the works, after 22 years later nonviolent came out and released spiky Jan 1974, may be tab was directed by Bireswar Basu (??), who was the creative Director of " Shesy Kothaay " film in 1952 .
58	1975	Priyo Bandhabi	3 Oct 1975	Uttam Kumar
59	1975	Aandhi	13 Feb 1975	Aarti Devi	Gulzar	Sanjeev Kumar	Hindi words
60	1976	Datta	30 Jul 1976	Datta	Ajoy Kar	Soumitra Chatterjee	Based on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's fresh Datta
61	1978	Pranay Pasha	9 June 1978	Taposhi	Mangal Chakraborty	Soumitra Chatterjee	This was her last pellicle released

Awards

Suchitra Sen received 10 awards during her lifetime.

Imprisoned 1963, she became the be foremost Indian actress to receive comprise international award.

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