Suchitra Sen, the first Bengali actress to have garnered an international award at the Moscow Film Festival in 1962, breathed her last on January 17, 2014 in Kolkata.
Known for her effortless charm and inimitable style, Sen made her movie debut with Shesh Kothaay in 1952, but the production was never released. In the next year she acted opposite Uttam Kumar in Nirmal Dey’s Sharey Chuattor. The film was a box-office hit and launched Uttam-Suchitra as a leading pair. The duo went on to become icons for Bengali dramas for more than two decades.
In 1955 Sen received the Best Actress Award for her portrayal of Paro in Bimal Roy’s classic Devdas. She went on to work in various Bengali and Hindi movies thereafter, but it was her role in Aandhi opposite Sanjeev Kumar that helped her bag a Filmfare Best Actress nomination.
Suchitra Sen combined 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.
Who can forget Devdas, Aandhi, Bambai Ka Babu ..
Deewana Mastana Hua Dil..
Goosebumps!!
रहें न रहें हम महका करेंगे बन के कली
बन के सबा बाग-ए-वफा में
very true
She was instrumental in coining the phrase of eternal Bengali Beauty..
Her legacy lives on in daughter Moon Moon Sen and Grand Daughters Raima and Ria.
Raima looks a split image of Suchitra Sen but the similarity ends there
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