amous Bengali actress Suchitra Sen died in
Kolkota on 17 January 2014. She was 82. She was born as Rama Dasgupta in Pabna
district of West Bengal on 16 April 1931.
She was famously known as the Greta Garbo of Bengali cinema
and had worked in more than 60 films, the most memorable being Aandhi in hindi
and Deep Jwele Jai in Bengali. For Aandhi she was nominated for the Filmfare
Best Actress Award. The other memorable films in Bengali include Saat Paake
Bandha, Agnipariksha, Saptapadi and Deep Jwele Jai.
In 1955, Suchitra Sen starred as Paro in her first Hindi film Devdas which was Bimal
Roy’s adaptation of Bengali classic Devdas. She played the leading lady
opposite Dilip Kumar and Vyjayanthimala in the film. In 1963, Suchitra Sen
became the first Indian actress to win
an international award. She had received the Silver Prize for Best Actress
at the Moscow Film Festival for
Saptapadi. In 2012, Suchitra Sen received the Banga Bibhushan award from the government of West BengaL.