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6 APR 1931-17 JAN 2014 SUCHITRA SEN

Suchitra Sen

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Suchitra Sen
Suchitra Sen as Paro in Bimpal Roy's, Devdas (1955).jpg
Suchitra Sen as Paro in Bimal Roy's Devdas(1955)
Native nameসুচিত্রা সেন
BornRoma Dasgupta
6 April 1931
Pabna, Bengal Presidency,British India
(now in Bangladesh)
Died17 January 2014 (aged 82)
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Cause of deathHeart attack
NationalityIndian
EthnicityBengali
Years active1952–1979
Notable workSaat Pake Badha
Sharey Chuattor
Saptapadi
Shaapmochan
Harano Sur
Deep Jele Jai
Aandhi
Mamta (1966 film)
ReligionHinduism
Spouse(s)Dibanath Sen (1947–1970 till his death)
ChildrenMoon Moon Sen
AwardsPadma Shri, Banga Bibhushan
Signature
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Suchitra Sen (Bengali: সুচিত্রা সেন) (Bengali pronunciation: [ʃuːtʃiːraː ʃeːn] About this sound listen (help·info)), (born as Roma Dasgupta) (About this sound listen (help·info); 6 April 1931 – 17 January 2014), was an Indian film 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]
Suchitra Sen was the first Bengali 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 Paake Bandha.[2][3] In 1972, she was awarded the Padma Shri, one of the highest civilian awards in India.[4]From 1979 on, she retreated from public life and shunned all forms of public contact; for this she is often compared to Greta Garbo.[5][6] In 2005, she refused the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, the highest cinematic award in India, to stay out of the public eye.[7] In 2012, she was conferred the West Bengal Government's highest honour: Banga Bibhushan.[8]

Personal life and education[edit]

Suchitra Sen was born in Sen Bhanga Bari village of Belkuchi Upazila, now in Sirajgonj District, Greater Pabna in the present day Pabna District ofBangladesh, on 6 April 1931.[9][10] Her father Late Karunamoy Dasgupta was the headmaster of the local school, and her mother Late Indira Devi was a homemaker. She was their fifth child and third daughter. Ms Sen is a Grand Daughter of Famous Poet Sree Rajonikant Sen.[11] She received her formal education in Pabna. Partition brought her family and her to West Bengal,[12]where she married Dibanath Sen, son of wealthy industrialist Adinath Sen, in 1947,[13] and had one daughter, Moon Moon Sen, who is a former actress. Her father-in-law, Adinath Sen, was supportive of her acting career in films after her marriage.[14] Her industrialist husband invested a lot in her career initially and supported her in all possible ways.[15]
Sen had made a successful entry into Bengali films in 1952, and then a less successful transition into the Hindi movie industry. According to persistent but unconfirmed reports in the Bengali press, her marriage was strained by her success in the film industry .[16]

Career[edit]

Suchitra Sen made her debut in films with Shesh Kothaay in 1952, but it was never released.[17] The following year saw her act opposite Uttam Kumar in Sharey Chuattor, a film by Nirmal Dey. It was a box-office hit and is remembered for launching Uttam-Suchitra as a leading pair. They went on to become the icons for Bengali dramas for more than 20 years, becoming almost a genre unto themselves.[18] She has acted in 30 of her 60 films with Uttam Kumar. She received a Best Actress Award nomination for the film Devdas (1955), which was her first Hindi movie. Her Bengali melodramas and romances, especially with Uttam Kumar, made her the most famous Bengali actress ever.[19] Her pairing with Bengal’s King of Hearts Uttam Kumar created classic romantic hits (Agnipariksha, Harano Sur, Saptapadi, Pathey Holo Deri, Kamal Lata, Indrani,Sabar Upore, Suryatoran, Shaare Chuattor, Sadanander Mela, Jiban Trishna, Ekti Raat, Chaawa Paawa, Shapmochan,Bipasha, Naborag, Trijama, Rajlakshmi Srikanto, Har Mana Har, Alo Amar Alo, Ora Thakey Odhare, Grihaprabesh and others) that have enjoyed ageless popularity and are watched, loved and admired even to this day.
The skyrocketing popularity of this romantic pair created a benchmark that remains unchallenged to this day. No other romantic pair in Bengali cinema in the subsequent decades have been able to match up to the magic created by Suchitra Sen and Uttam Kumar.[20]
It must be mentioned here that much of the duo’s popularity was contributed by the songs that showed them together. The team of Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Sandhya Mukhopadhyay, Geeta Dutt was a very successful combination that brought melody and romance in the perfect tandem of melodrama that was portrayed in the Uttam Suchitra movies so effortlessly. Songs like Ei poth jodi na sesh hoye from Saptapadi, Tumi je amar from Harano Sur showcase their effortless chemistry with each other, immortalizing them in the hearts of their fans.[21]
Her films ran through the 1960s and '70s. She continued to act in films even after her husband died in 1970 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, such as in the Hindi film Aandhi (1974). Aandhi was inspired by India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.[22] Sen received a Filmfare Award nomination as Best Actress, while Sanjeev Kumar, who played the role of her husband, won theFilmfare as Best Actor.[23]
One of her best known performances was in Deep Jwele Jaai (1959). She played in a character name Radha Mitra, a hospital nurse employed by a progressive psychiatrist, Pahadi Sanyal, who is expected to develop a personal relationship with male patients as part of their therapy. Sanyal diagnoses the hero, Basanta Choudhury, as having an unresolved Oedipal dilemma. He orders Radha to play the role though she is hesitant as in a similar case she had fallen in love with the patient. She finally agrees and bears up to Choudhury's violence, impersonates his mother, sings his poetic compositions and in the process falls in love again. In the end, even as she brings about his cure, she suffers a nervous breakdown. The film is noted for its partly lit close-ups of Sen, which set the tone of the film.[24] Asit Sen remade the film in Hindi asKhamoshi (1969) with Waheeda Rehman in the Suchitra Sen role.[25]
Suchitra Sen's other landmark film with Asit Sen was Uttar Falguni (1963). She plays the dual role of a courtesan, Pannabai, and her daughter Suparna, a lawyer. Critics note that she brought a great deal of poise, grace and dignity to the role of a fallen woman determined to see her daughter grow up in a good, clean environment.[26][27][28]
Suchitra Sen's international success came in 1963, when she won the best actress award at the Moscow International Film Festival for the movie Saat Paake Bandha, becoming the first Indian actress to receive an international film award.[29]
There is a scene in Saat Paake Bandha where Suchitra Sen has to tear the vest that Soumitra is wearing. Later, at a party thrown to celebrate the film's success, she did a repeat of the scene and tore Soumitra's shirt, much to the amazement of those present. Something that no one but her, could have even imagined doing in that age![30]
A film critic summed up Suchitra Sen's career and continuing legacy as "one half of one of Indian cinema's most popular and abiding screen pairs, Suchitra Sen redefined stardom in a way that few actors have done, combining understated sensuality, feminine charm and emotive force and a no-nonsense gravitas to carve out a persona that has never been matched, let alone surpassed in Indian cinema"[31]

In retirement[edit]

Smritituku Thak a tribute to Sen at the Kolkata Book Fair in 2014. 29 Jan 2014.
Suchitra Sen refused Satyajit Ray's offer due to a scheduling problem. As a result, Ray never made the film Devi Chaudhurani based on the novel written by Rishi Bankim Chandra Chattopadhya. She also refused Raj Kapoor's offer for a film under the RK banner.[32]
Sen continued to act after her husband's death in 1970, but called it a day whenPronoy Pasha flopped,[33] and retired from the screen in 1978 after a career of over 25 years to a life of quiet seclusion. She was to do a film project Nati Binodini, also starring Rajesh Khanna,[34] but the film was shelved mid-way after shooting when she decided to quit acting.
She assiduously avoided the public gaze after her retirement and devoted her time to the Ramakrishna Mission.[9] Suchitra Sen was a contender for the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2005, provided she was ready to accept it in person. Her refusal to go to New Delhi and personally accept it from the President of India deprived her of the award.[35]

Death[edit]

Suchitra Sen remembrance at Rabindra Sadan, Kolkata. 19 Jan 2014.
Suchitra Sen was admitted to the hospital on 24 December 2013 and was diagnosed with a lung infection. She was reported to have been recovering well in the first week of January.[36] She died at 8.25 am on 17 January 2014, due to a heart attack.[37][38]
Suchitra Sen's death was condoled by many leaders, including the President of India Dr. Pranab Mukherjee, the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, and B.J.P.'s Prime Ministerial candidateNarendra Modi.[39] A gun salute was given before her cremation, upon the orders ofMamata Banerjee, the Chief Minister of West Bengal.[40]
Respecting her fierce desire for complete privacy, her last rites were performed at Kolkata's Kaioratola crematorium, barely five and half hours after she died, with her coffin reaching the crematorium in a flower decked hearse with dark-tinted windows. Despite being Bengal's greatest star, referred to as "Mahanayika", she had consciously chosen to step into oblivion and she remained an enigma till her last, although thousands of fans had converged at the crematorium to catch one last glimpse of their idol. Her entire medical treatment had also been done in seclusion and secrecy.[41]

Filmography[edit]

From 1953 to 1978, both in Bengali and Hindi, Suchitra Sen acted in 61 films.Among them 22 were blockbusters,13 were superhits,5 made profits above the average and the rest flopped.

Suchitra Sen filmography by year
NoYearMovieRelease DateRoleDirectorHeroNotes
11952Shesh KothayUnreleasedThe film didn't release.
21953Saat Number Kayedi7 Feb 1953Sukumar DasguptaSamar RoyThis was her first officially released film.
31953Sharey Chuattor20 Feb 1953RomolaNirmal DeyUttam KumarFirst hit of legendary "Uttam-Suchitra's" super hit movie in Bengali
41953Bhagaban Srikrishna Chaitanya11 Dec 1953BishnupriyaDebaki BoseVasanta Chowdhury
51953Kajori10 April 1953Niren LahiriNo major hero
61954Atom Bomb1 Jan 1954Taru MukherjeeRobin MajumdarShe appeared as an extrain this film. It was shot in 1951 but released in 1954. Sabitri Chatterjee was the actual heroin of this small film
71954Ora Thaake Odhare5 Feb 1954NiluSukumar DasguptaUttam Kumar
81954Dhuli3 Jun 1954MinatiPinaki MukherjeePrasanta Kumar
91954Maraner Parey25 Jun 1954TanimaSatish DasguptaUttam Kumar
101954Sadanander Mela16 Jul 1954SheelaSukumar DasguptaUttam Kumar
111954Annapurnar Mandir6 Aug 1954SatiNaresh MitraUttam Kumar
121954Agnipariksha3 Sep 1954TaposhiAgradootUttam Kumar
131954Grihaprabesh12 Nov 1954Ajoy KarUttam Kumar
141954Balaygras17 Dec 1954Manimala
151955Sanjher Pradip28 Jan 1955RajuSudhanshu MukherjeeUttam Kumar
161955DevdasParvati (Paro)Bimal RoyDilip KumarFirst Hindi language film Based on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's famous novel "Devdas"
171955Snaajhghar11 Mar 1955
181955Shapmochan27 May 1955MadhuriShudhir MukherjeeUttam KumarSuchitra-Uttam starring first Box Office Superhit Movie
191955Mejo Bou30 Sep 1955
201955Bhalabaasa6 Oct 1955
211955Sabar Uparey1 Dec 1955RitaAgradootUttam KumarBased on A.J. Cronin's 1953 novel, "Beyond This Place"
221956Sagarika1 Feb 1956SagarikaAgradootUttam Kumar
231956Subharaatri30 Mar 1956
241956Ekti Raat11 May 1956SantanaChitta BoseUttam Kumar
251956Trijama28 June 1956SwarupaAgradootUttam Kumar
261956Shilpi30 Nov 1956AnjanaAgragamiUttam Kumar
271956Amar Bou14 Dec 1956Bikash Roy
281957Harano Sur6 Sep 1957Dr. Roma BanerjeeAjoy KarUttam KumarBased on James Hilton's immortal Novel "Random Harvest" a 1942 Hollywood Hit movie starring Ronald Colman and Greer Garson
291957Chandranath15 Nov 1957SarajuKartik ChattopadhyayUttam KumarBased on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's famous novel "Chandranath".
301957Pathe Holo Deri5 Dec 1957Mallika BanerjeeAgradootUttam Kumar
311957Jeeban Trishna25 Dec 1957ShakuntalaAshit SenUttam Kumar
321957MusafirShakuntala VermaHrishikesh MukherjeeShekhar KumarHindi language
331957ChampakaliChampakaliNandlal JaswantlalBharat BhushanHindi language
341958Rajlakshmi O Srikanta28 Feb 1958RajlakshmiHaridas BhattacharyaUttam KumarBased on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's famous novel "Rajlakshmi O Shrikanta"
351958Suryatoran21 Nov 1958Anita ChatterjeeAgradootUttam Kumar
361958Indrani10 Oct 1958IndraniNiren LahiriUttam Kumar
371959Deep Jwele Jaai1 May 1959Radha MitraAshit SenBasanta Chaudhury
381959Chaowa Paowa27 Feb 1959ManjuYatrikUttam KumarThe Story was taken from Samual Hopkins Adams's short story and a 1934 Oscar-winning Hollywood movie "It Happened One Night", starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, directed by Frank Capra.
391960Hospital16 Sep 1960SarbariShushil MajumdarAshok Kumar
401960Smriti Tuku Thak23 Sep 1960Shobha/UtpalaYatrikAshit Baran / Bikash RoyShe first time acted in Double Role in her career
411960Bombai Ka BabooMayaRaj KhoslaDev AnandHindi language
421960SarhadDev AnandHindi language
431961Saptapadi20 Oct 1961Rina BrownAjoy KarUttam Kumar
441962Bipasha26 Jan 1962BipashaAgradootUttam Kumar
451963Saat Paake Bandha22 Mar 1963ArchanaAjay KarSoumitra Chatterjee
461963Uttar Falguni11 Oct 1963Debjani / Pannabai / SuparnaAshit Sen[Dilip Mukherjee / Bikash Roy]
471964Sandhya Deeper Sikha2 Oct 1964Jayanti Bannerjee
481966MamtaDevyani / Pannabai / SuparnaAsit SenDharmendra / Ashok KumarHindi version of Bengali film "Uttar Phalguni"
491967Grihadaha5 May 1967AchalaSubodh MitraUttam KumarBased on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's famous novel "Grihadaha"
501969Kamallata2 Oct 1969KamallataHaridas BhattacharyaUttam KumarBased on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's famous novel "Kamallata"
511970Megh Kalo4 Sep 1970Dr. Nirmalya Roy
521971Nabaraag4 Feb 1971Uttam Kumar
531971Fariyad5 Nov 1971Ratanmala
541972Alo Amaar Alo17 Mar 1972AtashiUttam Kumar
551972Har Mana Har19 Dec 1972NeeraUttam Kumar
561974Devi Chaudhurani6 Sep 1974PrafullamukhiDinen GuptaRanjit Mallik
571974Srabana Sandhya25 Jan 1974
581975Priyo Bandhabi3 Oct 1975Uttam Kumar
591975Aandhi13 Feb 1975Aarti DeviGulzarSanjeev KumarHindi language
601976Datta30 Jul 1976DattaAjoy KarBased on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's famous novel Datta
611978Pranay Pasha9 June 1978

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      Born: April 6, 1931, Pabna, Bangladesh
      Died: January 17, 2014, Kolkata
      Spouse: Dibanath Sen (m. 1947–1970)
      Children: Moon Moon Sen
      Grandchildren: Raima Sen, Riya Sen
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