Swatilekha Sengupta
Sengupta in January 2010
Born
Swatilekha Chatterjee

(1950-05-22)22 May 1950
Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India
Died16 June 2021(2021-06-16) (aged 71)
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Alma materAllahabad University
OccupationTheatre personality
SpouseRudraprasad 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.

Career

Swatilekha started her career in theater in Prayagraj 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][3]

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,Bela Seshe, Dharmajuddha and Bela Shuru.[4]

Death

Sengupta died on 16 June 2021 from complications arising from kidney ailments. She was 71 at the time of her death. Her last work was Belashuru.

Filmography

YearFilmRoleDirector
2021DharmajuddhaAmmiRaj Chakraborty
2021BelashuruArati SarkarNandita Roy,

Shiboprosad Mukherjee

2019BarofSubham's MotherSudip Chakraborty
2015Bela SesheArati MajumdarNandita Roy,

Shiboprosad Mukherjee

1985Ghare BaireBimalaSatyajit Ray

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "My mom and me". India Today. 27 February 2009. Archived from the original on 6 October 2015. Retrieved 25 June 2012.
  2. ↑ "Swatilekha Sengupta Akademi Award: Acting". sangeetnatak.org. Archived from the original on 1 March 2012. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
  3. ↑ Basu, Shrabanti. "Sohini Sengupta on theatre, Nandikar and more-Interview". CalcuttaTube. Archived from the original on 14 April 2012. Retrieved 25 June 2012.
  4. ↑ Sen, Zinia. "I wanted to kill myself after Ghare Baire: Swatilekha Sengupta". Times of India. Archived from the original on 5 June 2018. Retrieved 13 February 2018.
  5. ↑ "Nandikar people". Nandikar. Archived from the original on 10 March 2012. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
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