Bhanga Bari, Sirajganj District, Bengal Presidency, British India (present-day Pabna District, Bangladesh)
Died
17 January 2014(2014-01-17) (aged 82)
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Occupation
Actress
Years active
1952–1979
Works
Filmography
Spouse
Dibanath Sen
(m. 1947; died 1970)
Children
Moon Moon Sen
Relatives
Raima Sen (granddaughter) Riya Sen (granddaughter)
Awards
Padma Shri (1972) Banga Bibhushan (2012)
Signature
Suchitra Sen (Bengali pronunciation:[ʃuːtʃiːraːʃeːn]listenⓘ; born Roma Dasgupta (listenⓘ; 6 April 1931 – 17 January 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 Uttam Kumar became classics in the history of Bengali cinema.[1]
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.[2][3] She was catapulted to stardom after she was cast as Vishnupriya by Devaki Kumar Bose in his Bhagaban Shree Krishna Chaitanya (1953).[4]
In 1972, she was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award in India.[5] From 1979 on, she retreated from public life and shunned all forms of public contact; for this she is often compared to Greta Garbo.[6][7] In 2005, she refused the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, the highest cinematic award in India, to stay out of the public eye.[8] In 2012, she was conferred the West Bengal Government's highest honour: Banga Bibhushan.[9] Her first official release was Sukumar Dasgupta's Saat Number Kayedi (1953).[10]
^Vijay Kaushik; Bela Rani Sharma (1998). Women's rights and world development. New Delhi: Sarup & Sons. p. 368. ISBN 81-7625-015-5.
^"Suchitra Sen, Bengal's sweetheart". NDTV. 17 January 2014. Archived from the original on 18 January 2014. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
^"3rd Moscow International Film Festival (1963)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 1 December 2012.
^"Bhagwan Shri Krishna Chaitanya (1953) - Review, Star Cast, News, Photos". Cinestaan. Archived from the original on 9 August 2020. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
^"Padma Awards Directory (1954–2013)" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs. 1972: 130: Smt Suchitra Sen
^Bannerjee, Monideepa (17 January 2014). "Why Suchitra Sen became a recluse and other stories". NDTV. Archived from the original on 1 February 2014. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
^"India's Greta Garbo' Suchitra Sen dies". 17 January 2013. Agence France-Presse. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
^"Suchitra Sen awarded Banga-Bibhusan". Zee News India. 20 May 2012. Retrieved 2 June 2012.
^Das, Mohua (20 May 2012). "The perils of a packed prize podium Ravi Shankar declines award". Telegraph, Kolkata. Calcutta, India. Archived from the original on 21 May 2012. Retrieved 2 June 2012.
^Dasgupta, Sukumar. "Saat Number Kayedi". Retrieved 7 December 2018.
SuchitraSen (Bengali pronunciation: [ʃuːtʃiːraː ʃeːn] listen; born Roma Dasgupta (listen; 6 April 1931 – 17 January 2014), widely known as the Mahanayika...
and nephew of Maharani Gayatri Devi of Jaipur. Sen's mother Moon Moon Sen and grandmother SuchitraSen were reputed veteran actresses. She began her acting...
Sirivennela. Moon Moon Sen was born in Calcutta (present-day Kolkata) to popular Bengali actress SuchitraSen and Dibanath Sen. Her father, of Ballygunge...
Moon Sen and Bharat Dev Varma and the granddaughter of actress SuchitraSen who is regarded as the Mahanayika of Bengali Cinema. Her sister Riya Sen is...
'Storm') is a 1975 Indian political drama film starring Sanjeev Kumar and SuchitraSen, and directed by Gulzar. At the time it was alleged that the film was...
Indian Bengali-language drama film directed by Asit Sen and produced by Uttam Kumar, starring SuchitraSen in a double role, Bikash Roy and Dilip Mukherjee...
the comedy film Sharey Chuattor, which was his first time paired with SuchitraSen. This film became blockbuster hit.[citation needed] His first breakthrough...
directed by Nirmal Dey. Next year along with same director, he worked with SuchitraSen for the first time in Sharey Chuattor. The film became blockbuster and...
1955 under the banner of Production Syndicate starring Uttam Kumar and SuchitraSen in lead. Music director of the film was Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay. The...
Tulsi Chakraborty and Molina Devi in lead and co-starring Uttam Kumar, SuchitraSen, Bhanu Bandopadhyay, Jahor Roy and Nabadwip Haldar. Contemporary playback...
Pake Bandha is a Bengali romantic film starring Soumitra Chatterjee, SuchitraSen, Pahari Sanyal and Tarun Kumar. Directed by Ajoy Kar, it was a box office...
1957 Indian Bengali-language romantic drama film by Ajoy Kar, starring SuchitraSen and Uttam Kumar, with music by Hemanta Mukherjee, and sung by Geeta Dutt...
been Uttam Kumar while SuchitraSen is regarded as the most beautiful and influential actress of Bengali cinema. Kumar and Sen were known as "The Eternal...
music composed by Robin Chatterjee. The film starring Uttam Kumar, and SuchitraSen who was in leading role and others artists like Shishir Batabyal, Anil...
Retrieved November 20, 2015. "Apurbo-Aupee Karim in role of 'Uttam Kumar-SuchitraSen'". Dhaka: Priyo News. July 18, 2013. Archived from the original on July...
Khosla and written by Rajinder Singh Bedi. The film stars Dev Anand and SuchitraSen in a rare appearance in Hindi cinema. Except for the "brother-sister"...
J. Cronin's 1953 novel, Beyond This Place. It stars Uttam Kumar and SuchitraSen in leading roles. Chhabi Biswas, Pahari Sanyal and Nitish Mukherjee also...
banner of S. M. Productions. This was first official debut film of SuchitraSen. SuchitraSen Chhabi Biswas Kamal Mitra Molina Devi Bhanu Banerjee Jahar Ganguly...
and Rakesh Nath) SuchitraSen Moonmoon Sen (daughter of Suchitra) Raima Sen a.k.a. Raima Dev Varma (elder daughter of Moonmoon) Riya Sen a.k.a. Riya Dev...
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