Actors - Rituparna Sengupta

Home > Listing Index > Actors > Rituparna Sengupta

	Actors - Rituparna Sengupta

Rituparna Sengupta is a leading Bengali actress, who works mainly in the Calcutta film industry. Born and raised in Calcutta, she studied history at Lady Brabourne College and at Calcutta University. She made her film debut with "Shesh Chithi" (1992). She has received widespread critical acclaim for her performances in Dahan (1997), Utsab (2000), Paromitar Ek Din (2000) and Mondo Meyer Upakhyan (2002). She won the Best Actress award at the 1998 Indian National Film Awards for her role in Rituparno Ghosh's Dahan, where she played Romita, a newly-wed woman who is the victim of a sexual assault.

Rituparna has also worked across the border in the Bangladeshi film industry, which produces films in the same language (Bengali) as the Calcutta industry. Rituparna is a trained Odissi dancer, and has her own classical dance troupe 'Bhabna Aaj O Kaal' ('Contemporary Thoughts'). She is married to Sanjay Chakrabarty, an IT entrepreneur and her childhood sweetheart.

[ Visit the complete Wikipedia entry for Rituparna Sengupta ]

This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article Rituparna Sengupta; it is used under the GNU Free Documentation License. You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.

Searches on eBay