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Swatilekha Sengupta
Swatilekha
Swatilekha Sengupta
Born
Swatilekha Chatterjee

1950 (age 73–74)
Allahabad
NationalityIndian
OccupationTheatre personality
SpouseRudraprasad Sengupta
ChildrenSohini Sengupta

Swatilekha Sengupta (née Chatterjee, born 1950) is a Bengali actress.[1] She has received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for her contribution to Indian theatre as an actor.

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.[2]

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.[3]

Filmography

Year Film Role Director
2019 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

  • 2011 Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for her contribution to Indian theatre as an actor.[4]
  • West Bengal Theatre Journalists’ Association award.
  • Paschim Banga Natya Akademi award.

References

  1. ^ "My mom and me". India Today. 27 February 2009. Retrieved 25 June 2012.
  2. ^ "Swatilekha Sengupta Akademi Award: Acting". sangeetnatak.org. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
  3. ^ Sen, Zinia. "I wanted to kill myself after Ghare Baire: Swatilekha Sengupta". Times of India. Retrieved 13 February 2018.
  4. ^ "Nandikar people". Nandikar. Archived from the original on 10 March 2012. Retrieved 10 March 2012.

External links

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