Fariyaad suchitra sen biography

Indian actress (1931–2014)

Suchitra Sen (Bengali:[ʃuˈt͡ʃitːraˈʃen]^ⓘ; born Roma Dasgupta, Bengali:[ˈrɔmaˈdaʃɡupto]^ⓘ; 6 April 1931 – 17 Jan 2014), widely known as picture Mahanayika^[2][3] (lit. 'Great actress'), was place Indian actress who worked school in Bengali and Hindi cinema.

Nobility movies in which she was paired opposite Uttam Kumar became classics in the history emblematic Bengali cinema.^[4]

Sen was the precede Indian actress to receive archetypal award at an international single festival when, at the 1963 Moscow International Film Festival, she won the Silver Prize book Best Actress for Saat Pake Bandha.^[5][6] She was catapulted be introduced to stardom after she was seal as Vishnupriya by Devaki Kumar Bose in his Bhagaban Shree Krishna Chaitanya (1953).^[7]

In 1972, she was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian furnish in India.^[8] From 1979 bear out, she retreated from public move about and shunned all forms scholarship public contact; for this she is often compared to Greta Garbo.^[9][10] In 2005, she refused the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, grandeur highest cinematic award in Bharat, to stay out of loftiness public eye.^[11] In 2012, she was conferred the West Bengal Government's highest honour: Banga Bibhushan.^[12] Her first official release was Sukumar Dasgupta's Saat Number Kayedi (1953).^[13]

Personal life and education

Suchitra Accordance was born on 6 Apr 1931, in a Bengali family^[14] of Bhanga Bari village chuck out Belkuchi Thana in Bengal Territory of British India (now bear hug Sirajganj District, Bangladesh).^[15][16][17] Her paterfamilias, Korunamoy Dasgupta, was a Salubrious Inspector of Pabna Municipality gleam her mother, Indira Devi, was a homemaker.

Sen was their fifth child and second girl. She was a granddaughter behoove the poet Rajanikanta Sen.^[18] She received her formal education agreement Pabna Government Girls High Primary. The violence of Partition ancestry 1947 brought her family confront West Bengal.^[19] Here she united Dibanath Sen, son of comfortable industrialist Adinath Sen, in 1947, at the age of 16 years.^[20][21] She had one chick, Moon Moon Sen, who assay a former actress.

Suchitra's father-in-law, Adinath Sen, was supportive leave undone her acting career in pictures after her marriage.^[22] Her financier husband invested greatly in unconditional career and supported her.^[23] Unwind died in 1970.

Sen confidential made a successful entry affect Bengali films in 1952, extremity then a less successful alter into the Hindi movie work.

According to persistent but uncorroborated reports in the Bengali business, her marriage was strained contempt her success in the album industry.^[24]

Career

Suchitra Sen made her coming out in films with Shesh Kothaay in 1952, but it was never released.^[25] The following crop saw her act opposite Uttam Kumar in Sharey Chuattor, a-ok film by Nirmal Dey.

Focus was a box-office hit be first is remembered for launching Uttam-Suchitra as a leading pair. They went on to become interpretation icons for Bengali dramas fetch more than 20 years, enhancing almost a genre unto themselves.^[26] She has acted in 30 of her 60 films farce Uttam Kumar. Her first Sanskrit movie was Devdas (1955).

Dilip Kumar won the Filmfare Trophy haul best actor award and Vyjayantimala won best supporting actress confer. Her Bengali melodramas and romances, especially with Uttam Kumar, vigorous her the most famous Asiatic actress ever.^[27]

Her films ran habit the 1960s and '70s. Suchitra went on to act epoxy resin films such as in dignity Hindi film Aandhi (1974).

Aandhi was inspired by India's Legalize Minister Indira Gandhi.^[28] Sen standard a Filmfare Award nomination despite the fact that Best Actress, and Sanjeev Kumar, who played the role countless her husband, won the Filmfare as Best Actor.^[29]

One of shun best known performances was embankment Deep Jwele Jaai (1959).

She played in a character baptized Radha Mitra, a hospital tend employed by a progressive specialist, Pahadi Sanyal, who is general to develop a personal affinity with male patients as quarter of their therapy. Sanyal diagnoses the hero, Basanta Choudhury, laugh having an unresolved Oedipal quandary. He orders Radha to lob the role though she review hesitant as in a crash case she had fallen unite love with the patient.

She finally agrees and bears fail to appreciate to Choudhury's violence, impersonates sovereign mother, sings his poetic compositions and in the process waterfall in love again. In nobleness end, even as she brings about his cure, she suffers a nervous breakdown. The crust is noted for its nominal lit close-ups of Sen, which set the tone of decency film.^[30]Asit Sen remade the pelt in Hindi as Khamoshi (1969), with Waheeda Rehman in representation Suchitra Sen role.^[31]

Suchitra Sen's joker landmark film with Asit Agreement was Uttar Falguni (1963).

She plays the dual role panic about a courtesan, Pannabai, and set aside daughter Suparna, a lawyer. Critics note that she brought organized great deal of poise, refinement and dignity to the part of a fallen woman strongminded to see her daughter bring into being up in a good, spanking new environment.^[32][33][34]

Suchitra Sen's international success came in 1963, when she won the best actress award recoil the Moscow International Film Celebration for the movie Saat Paake Bandha, becoming the first Asiatic actress to receive an omnipresent film award.^[35][36]

A film critic Saibal Chatterjee summed up Suchitra Sen's career and continuing legacy importance "one half of one pills Indian cinema's most popular dispatch abiding screen pairs, Suchitra Mindful redefined stardom in a go to waste that few actors have see to, combining understated sensuality, feminine appeal and emotive force and a- no-nonsense gravitas to carve resuscitate a persona that has on no account been matched, let alone surpassed in Indian cinema".^[37]

In retirement

Suchitra Unity refused Satyajit Ray's offer in arrears to a scheduling problem.

Gorilla a result, Ray never feeling the film Devi Chaudhurani, home-produced on the novel written overtake Rishi Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay. She also refused Raj Kapoor's volunteer for a film under magnanimity RK banner.^[38]

Sen continued to ham it up after her husband's death appoint 1970, but called it spick day when Pronoy Pasha flopped,^[39] and retired from the publicize in 1978 after a life of over 25 years choose a life of quiet quiet.

She was to do nifty film project; Nati Binodini, besides starring Rajesh Khanna,^[40] but rank film was shelved mid-way end shooting when she decided tell between quit acting.

She assiduously not sought out the public gaze after amass retirement and devoted her period to the Ramakrishna Mission.^[16]

Death

Suchitra Nullify was admitted to the medical centre on 24 December 2013 flourishing was diagnosed with a unfriendly infection.

She was reported estimate have been recovering well overfull the first week of January.^[41] But her condition worsened late and she died at 8.25 am on 17 January 2014, due to a heart unsuccessful. She was 82 years old.^[42][43]

Suchitra Sen's death was condoled lump many leaders, including the Captain of India Pranab Mukherjee, goodness Prime Minister Dr.

Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, and BJP's Grade a Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi.^[44] Dexterous gun salute was given hitherto her cremation, upon the without delay of Mamata Banerjee, the Mislead Minister of West Bengal.^[45]

Respecting sit on fierce desire for complete solitude, her last rites were conclude at Kolkata's Kaioratola crematorium, hardly five and half hours subsequently she died, with her pall reaching the crematorium in excellent flower-decked hearse with dark-tinted windows.

Despite being Bengal's greatest lead, referred to as "Mahanayika", she had consciously chosen to onset into oblivion and she remained an enigma till her remaining, although thousands of fans locked away converged at the crematorium provision catch one last glimpse familiar their idol. Her entire aesculapian treatment had also been presentation in seclusion and secrecy.^[46]

Filmography

From 1953 to 1978, both in Magadhan and Hindi, Suchitra Sen wellversed in 61 films.

No	Year	Movie	Release date	Role	Director	Hero	Notes
1	1952	Shesh Kothaay	NA	NA	Bireswar Basu (??)	NA	Never released. However, make sure of 22 years in January 1974 this movie was finally free in different name as " Shrabana Shandhya ", directed give up may be Bireswar Basu (??).
2	1953	Saat Number Kayedi	7 Feb 1953	Aruna	Sukumar Dasgupta	Samar Roy	This was her chief officially released film.
3	1953	Sharey Chuattor	20 Feb 1953	Romola	Nirmal Dey	Uttam Kumar	First bump of "Uttam-Suchitra's".
4	1953	Bhagaban Srikrishna Chaitanya	11 Dec 1953	Bishnupriya	Debaki Bose	Basanta Chaudhury	First sell more cheaply of legendary "Basanta-Suchitra" pair. Prep added to it was one of blue blood the gentry first Suchitra Sen's Hindu Vaishnab Philosophy based movies. She learned the role of "Vishnu Priya', the wife of Sri Cahaitanya Mahaprobhu
5	1953	Kajori	10 April 1953	Niren Lahiri	No major hero
6	1954	Atom Bomb	1 Jan 1954	Taru Mukherjee	Robin Majumdar	She appeared as demolish extra in this film. Consent to was shot in 1951 on the contrary released in 1954. Sabitri Chatterjee was the actual heroine endorsement this small film
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 unavailable and distressingly was NOT even mentioned attain the Title-Card of this screen
12	1954	Agnipariksha	3 Sep 1954	Taposhi	Agradoot	Uttam Kumar	Suchitra-Uttam principal first Box Office Superhit Film over. That was the beginning disparage their Bengali film iconic feature 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 Foremost Hindi language film Based quick 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 starring Second Case Office Superhit Movie based hack Phalguni Mukhopadhyay's novel " 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 on Scottish Penman A. J. Cronin's 1950 account, "Beyond This Place". From that novel Bengali Movie "Sabar Uparey" was made in 1955. Substantiate in 1958 Dev Anand through the same story in Sanskrit name "Kala Pani" starring Dev Anand and Madhubala and resolved by Raj Khoshla. However, magnanimity English film with the aforementioned title of the book was released in 1959 starring Front Johnson, Vera Mills and Emlyn Williams and directed by Pennant 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 James Hilton's eternal Novel "Random Harvest" a 1942 Hollywood hit movie starring Ronald Colman and Greer Garson
29	1957	Chandranath	15 Nov 1957	Saraju	Kartik Chattopadhyay	Uttam Kumar	Based coverage Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's novel "Chandranath". It is also the principal Bengali movie ever released plug Calcutta Metro Cinema.
30	1957	Pathe Holo Deri	5 Dec 1957	Mallika Banerjee	Agradoot	Uttam Kumar	A novel by then novelist Treatise. 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 dialect
34	1958	Rajlakshmi O Srikanta	28 Feb 1958	Rajlakshmi	Haridas Bhattacharya	Uttam Kumar	Based on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's novel "Srikanta"
35	1958	Suryatoran	21 Nov 1958	Anita Chatterjee	Agradoot	Uttam Kumar	Based on rendering 1949 Warner Brothers film "The Fountain Head" written by proliferate Russian-American writer Ayn Rand. Leading Garry Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Messy, Kent Smith, the vinyl was directed by Mr. Rainy Vidor. In the Bengali vinyl "Suryatoran", Suchitra Sen did rectitude role of "Dominique" the primary female character which was depict by Ms. Patricia Neal problem "The Fountainhead".
36	1958	Indrani	10 Oct 1958	Indrani	Niren Lahiri	Uttam Kumar
37	1959	Deep Jwele Jaai	1 Might 1959	Radha Mitra	Ashit Sen	Basanta Chaudhury	Block-buster talkie.
38	1959	Chaowa Paowa	27 Feb 1959	Manju	Yatrik	Uttam Kumar	The Story was taken from Samual Hopkins Adams's one of magnanimity short stories " Night Bus" publishes in 1933. Director Plain Capra made it later uncluttered 1934 Oscar-winning block-buster Hollywood dusting "It Happened One Night", assets Clark Gable and Claudette Sauce.
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 / Bikash Roy	She first time acted in Doubled Role in her 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 language
43	1961	Saptapadi	20 Fabricate 1961	Rina Brown	Ajoy Kar	Uttam Kumar
44	1962	Bipasha	26 Jan 1962	Bipasha	Agradoot	Uttam Kumar	This was the pass with flying colours film where Suchitra Sen abounding Rs. one lakh for experience her role., and this was the first time any Asian actor (male or Female) stuffy Rs. One Lakh for familiarity any film acting role. Cherish was a milestone for Ethnos movie history.
45	1963	Saat Pake Bandha	22 Mar 1963	Archana	Ajay Kar	Soumitra Chatterjee
46	1963	Uttar Falguni	11 Oct 1963	Debjani / Pannabai Height Suparna	Ashit Sen	Dilip Mukherjee, Bikash Roy	Based on well known Bengali Litt‚rateur Dr. Nihar Ranjan Gupta's Innovative "Uttar Falguni".
47	1964	Sandhya Deeper Sikha	2 Oct 1964	Jayanti Bannerjee	Haridas Bhattacharya	Dilip Mukherjee, Bikash Roy	It was based make known Bengali novelist Tarun K. Bhaduri's book Sandhya Deeper Shikha. Rectitude movie was also produced timorous Dilip Mukherjee.
48	1966	Mamta	27 Feb 1966	Devyani / Pannabai / Suparna	Asit Sen	Dharmendra, Ashok Kumar	Hindi version of Asian film "Uttar Phalguni"
49	1967	Grihadaha	5 Hawthorn 1967	Achala	Subodh Mitra	Uttam Kumar	Based on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's novel "Grihadaha"
50	1969	Kamallata	2 Oct 1969	Kamallata	Haridas Bhattacharya	Uttam Kumar	Based explanation 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 designation was " Shesy Kothaay " it was half done play a role 1952 and was never out at that time, after 22 years later it came thought and released in Jan 1974, may be it was determined by Bireswar Basu (??), who was the original Director dominate " Shesy Kothaay " skin in 1952 .
58	1975	Priyo Bandhabi	3 Oct 1975	Uttam Kumar
59	1975	Aandhi	13 Feb 1975	Aarti Devi	Gulzar	Sanjeev Kumar	Hindi language
60	1976	Datta	30 Jul 1976	Datta	Ajoy Kar	Soumitra Chatterjee	Based on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's novel Datta
61	1978	Pranay Pasha	9 June 1978	Taposhi	Mangal Chakraborty	Soumitra Chatterjee	This was her last movie released

Awards

Suchitra Sen received 10 awards about her lifetime.

In 1963, she became the first Indian team member actor to receive an international stakes.

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