Swatilekha Sengupta
Actor
- Born
- May 22, 1950 · Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Died
- June 16, 2021 (age 71)
Swatilekha Sengupta (née Chatterjee; 22 May 1950 – 16 June 2021) was a Bengali actress. She had received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for her contribution to Indian theatre as an actor.
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.
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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.
Known for
Acting6
- 2022Dharmajuddha as Ammi
- 2022Belashuru as Arati Sarkar
- 2019Borof as Mother
- 2016Chauranga as Grandmother
- 2015Belaseshe as Aarti Majumdar
- 1985The Home and the World as Bimala Choudhury