Swatilekha Sengupta

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Swatilekha Sengupta
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Born
Swatilekha Chatterjee

(1950-05-22)22 May 1950
Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
Died16 June 2021(2021-06-16) (aged 71)
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Alma materAllahabad University
OccupationTheatre personality
Spouse(s)Rudraprasad Sengupta
ChildrenSohini Sengupta

Swatilekha Sengupta (née Chatterjee; 22 May 1950 – 16 June 2021) was a Bengali actress.[1] She had received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for her contribution to Indian theatre as an actor.

Early life[]

Sengupta was born 1950 in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh.She was the first class first in the English department of the Allahabad University. She had briefly taught at Loreto College. She had studied music from Trinity College, London, and had played a Beethoven piece.[2]

Career[]

Swatilekha started her career in theater in Allahabad in the early 1970s, acting in productions under the direction of A.C. Banerjee. She also received guidance from B.V. Karanth, Tapas Sen, and Khaled Chowdhury. Then she moved to Kolkata and joined the theater group Nandikar in 1978. In Nandikar she worked under the direction of Rudraprasad Sengupta, whom she went on to marry.[3][4]

She was also the lead female protagonist in Ghare Baire, a 1985 film by Satyajit Ray, against Victor Banerjee and Soumitra Chatterjee. This film was based upon a novel of the same name Ghare Baire written by the famous Bengali writer Rabindranath Tagore. She has also acted in films like Chauranga and Bela Seshe.[5]

Filmography[]

Year Film Role Director
2021 Dharmajuddha Ammi Raj Chakraborty
2021 Bela Shuru Aarti Sarkar Nandita Roy

Shiboprosad Mukherjee

2019 Barof Subham's Mother Sudip Chakraborty
2015 Bela Seshe Aarti Majumdar Nandita Roy

Shiboprosad Mukherjee

1985 Ghare Baire Bimala Satyajit Ray

Awards[]

References[]

  1. ^ "My mom and me". India Today. 27 February 2009. Retrieved 25 June 2012.
  2. ^ Eminent theatre personality Swatilekha Sengupta passes away The Times of India. Retrieved 17 June 2021
  3. ^ "Swatilekha Sengupta Akademi Award: Acting". sangeetnatak.org. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
  4. ^ Basu, Shrabanti. "Sohini Sengupta on theatre, Nandikar and more-Interview". CalcuttaTube. Retrieved 25 June 2012.
  5. ^ Sen, Zinia. "I wanted to kill myself after Ghare Baire: Swatilekha Sengupta". Times of India. Retrieved 13 February 2018.
  6. ^ "Nandikar people". Nandikar. Archived from the original on 10 March 2012. Retrieved 10 March 2012.

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