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Suchitra
Sen -The Reclusive Legend By Priyanka & Partha Mukherjee
In 1978
at the age of 47 she announced her retirement – it would last 35 years until
her death in January 2014 in Kolkata, where she lived the life of a recluse.
She was 82.
Suchitra
Sen was one of India’s best-known movie actresses, who reigned supreme for
26 years during Bengal’s cinematic golden age. Beautiful, glamorous, and
mysterious, Suchitra Sen was adulated and envied for living life on her
terms. She turned down film offers by the two cinematic giants – Satyajit
Ray and Raj Kapoor. She was beyond reach. Her film career spanned more than
50 Bengali films and seven Hindi films. She and Uttam Kumar were the most
successful romantic pair in the history of Bengali cinema – having done 30
films together, with hits such as “Agni Pariksha” (1954) and “Saptapadi”
(1961). Her first Hindi film was Bimal Roy’s “Devdas” (1955), a major
box-office success.
Suchitra
Sen was born Roma Dasgupta on April 6, 1931, in Pabna, now in Bangladesh.
The fifth child of Karunamoy Dasgupta, a school headmaster, and Indira
Dasgupta, a homemaker, she was more interested in singing. Hailing from a
conservative, middle class Bengali family, it would have been inconceivable
for Roma to nurture her inborn talents in acting and singing or to aspire
for a career in the field of entertainment. Young Roma was perhaps not even
aware of her talent until she got married to Dibanath Sen in 1947 at the age
of sixteen.
Wedded to
a stylish and city bred engineer, Roma soon found herself in the midst of
the city’s fashionable circuit. Her doting father-in-law Adinath, and her
husband Dibanath groomed her style and poise. The small town girl readily
shed off her inhibitions and blended in with the upper crust.
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