Jaya Seal

Jaya Seal
Jaya Seal
Born	Guwahati, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation(s)	Actress, dancer
Years active	1999–present
Spouse	Bickram Ghosh

Jaya Seal Ghosh (née Seal) is an Indian actress and dancer.^[2] She started learning Bharatanatyam from a very early age under Guru Indira P. P. Bora for five years. Simultaneously, she was also acting in Assamese television and did plays with noted Assamese theatre personalities from NSD like Dulal Roy and Baharul Islam who inspired her. She went to the National School of Drama in New Delhi where she subsequently completed her three-year course in 1997.

Jaya went on to act in 19 feature films in 8 languages, and appeared in several ad commercials. Some of Jaya's films received National and International Awards in Film Festivals like Venice, Pussan. Among her noteworthy films, she holds Uttara, by Buddhadeb Dasgupta. She was nominated for best actress in the year 2000 for Uttara. She also seen in ‘Kahani Ghar Ghar Ki’ in 2004. Some of her well-known films are Chal & Xcuse Me (Hindi), Penninmanathaithottu (Tamil) opposite Prabhu Deva, Samurai (Tamil) opposite Vikram, Bahala Channa Gide (Kannada) opposite Shivraj Kumar, Magunido Sagodo (Odiya) which won the National Award for best Odiya film in 2003, Thilaadanam (Telugu) Which won National Award for best debut director to the late 6 time National and International award-winning Film Critic and Director K.N.T. Sastry and also won best foreign film and New Currents Award award in Pussan film festival in 2003, Shesh Thikana (Bengali) etc. She has worked in more than thirty ad commercials like Dettol, Colgate, Clinic plus oil n shampoo, Sun drop oil etc.

She received the Best Actress Award at the Assam Prag Cine Awards for the Assamese film Shrinkhol 2014.

Throughout this phase, she also continued her primary passion - dance. While in Mumbai she trained under Guru Vaibhav Arekar and Guru Rajeshri Shirke at Lasya academy. Later she trained under Guru Naresh Pillai also in Mumbai.

After shifting her base to Kolkata, Jaya joined Kalamandalam under the guidance of Guru Thankamani Kutty in the year 2005. Now she continues her learning under Bidushi Rama Vaidyanathan. Jaya has performed as a dancer at many prestigious venues. She regaled audiences at Detroit's Cobo Arena at the inauguration of the 2007 Bengali Sammelan & Muscat show in May 2015.

Jaya also worked with renowned theatre personality Usha Ganguly as the main lead in her production Chandalika. She acted in the film Arshinagar directed by Aparna Sen. Film Alifa in Bengali language shot at Guwahati directed by Deep Choudhury which has been selected in 2016 22nd Kolkata International Film Festival received best debut director award in 2017 national award and Best film in OTTAWA film FEST. She won the best actress award for the film Alifa in Lonawala Film Festival (LIFT). In 2018 received best actress award in Hyderabad Bengali film festival for the film Alifa.^[3]^[4]

Filmography[edit]

Year	Film	Role	Language	Note
1999	Amrita		Hindi
2000	Pennin Manathai Thottu	Sunitha	Tamil
2000	Shesh Thikana	Sriradha	Bengali
2000	Uttara	Uttara	Bengali
2000	Thilaadanam		Telugu
2001	Kalakalappu	Thilaga	Tamil
2001	Bahala Chennagide		Kannada
2002	Magunira Shagada		Odia
2002	Samurai	Kavitha	Tamil
2002	Evare Atagaadu	Sneha	Telugu	credited as Jaya^[5]
2002	Magunira Shagada		Odia
2002	Chhal	Padmini	Hindi
2002	Desh Devi	Gayatri
2003	Xcuse Me	Monica Khurana
2004	Hotath Neerar Jonnyo	Rani	Bengali
2011	Katakuti	Sudeshna	Bengali
2012	Quartet 1		Hindi
2014	Sringkhal	Ambika	Assamese	Prag Cine Awards for Best Actress
2015	Arshinagar	Madhu Mitra	Bengali
2016	One Little Finger		English
2018	Alifa	Fatima	Bengali
2018	Dawshobhuja- A Durgachitra	cameo appearance	Bengali
TBA	Flowers of the Mountain	TBA	Hindi

Television[edit]

Kahani Ghar Ghar Ki as Swati
Rishtey – Episode 79
Aashram Season 3 (Web series)

References[edit]

^ "Without discussing with Bickram, I don't take any financial decision: Jaya Seal Ghosh - Times of India". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 12 October 2020. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
^ "Jaya Seal Ghosh to perform at ICCR - Times of India". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 30 August 2019. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
^ "Assam: Party not over for Alifa, Jaya Seal yet". NORTHEAST NOW. Archived from the original on 3 July 2018. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
^ "Jaya Seal Ghosh's big win - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
^ Srihari, Gudipoodi (14 January 2003). "Triangular match". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007.

External links[edit]

Jaya Seal at IMDb
Jaya Seal at Bollywood Hungama

[1] "Without discussing with Bickram, I don't take any financial decision: Jaya Seal Ghosh - Times of India". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 12 October 2020. Retrieved 23 May 2020.

[2] "Jaya Seal Ghosh to perform at ICCR - Times of India". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 30 August 2019. Retrieved 23 May 2020.

[3] "Assam: Party not over for Alifa, Jaya Seal yet". NORTHEAST NOW. Archived from the original on 3 July 2018. Retrieved 23 May 2020.

[4] "Jaya Seal Ghosh's big win - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 23 May 2020.

[5] Srihari, Gudipoodi (14 January 2003). "Triangular match". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007.

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