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Suchitra Sen (6 April 1931 – 17 January 2014) was an Indian actress. Her birth name was Roma Dasgupta. She won fame chiefly by acting in Bengali and Hindi films. Playing the heroine opposite Uttam Kumar in Bengali cinema, she won special popularity.
In 1963, for her acting in the film Saat Pake Bandha, Suchitra Sen won the "Silver Prize for Best Actress" at the Moscow Film Festival. She was the first Indian actress to be awarded at any international film festival. In 1972 the Government of India conferred the Padma Shri honour on her. It is heard that in 2005 she was offered the Dadasaheb Phalke Award; but since Suchitra Sen did not wish to come before the public, she did not accept the award. In 2012 she was given the Banga Bibhushan, the highest honour of the West Bengal government.
On 6 April 1931, Suchitra Sen was born in Sadar Pabna of Pabna district in the Bengal Presidency of British India. (Sen Bhangabari village under Belkuchi thana of what is now Sirajgonj district within the state of Bangladesh is Suchitra Sen's ancestral home.) Her father Karunamoy Dasgupta was the head teacher of a local school, and her mother Indira Devi was a housewife. She was the fifth child and third daughter of the family. She studied in Pabna town itself. She was the granddaughter of the poet Rajanikanta Sen.
In 1947 Suchitra Sen married Dibanath Sen, son of the eminent industrialist Adinath Sen. Their only daughter, Moonmoon Sen, is also a famed actress. Suchitra Sen became associated with the world of Bengali cinema in 1952.
In 1952 her film journey began with the film Shesh Kothay, but the film was never released.
She acted in seventy-four and a half films opposite Uttam Kumar. The films succeeded at the box office, and the Uttam–Suchitra pair remains memorable to this day. For the following twenty years this undisputed pair of Bengali cinema stood as an icon.
For the 1955 film Devdas she won the best actress award; it was her first Hindi film. For creating romance with Uttam Kumar in Bengali films, she is the most famous actress of Bengali cinema. Her films were released through the 1960s and 1970s. She continued acting even after her husband's death, as in the Hindi film Aandhi, in which she played the role of a woman leader. It is said that the character's inspiration came from Indira Gandhi. For this film she was nominated for the Filmfare Award for Best Actress, and Sanjeev Kumar, who played her husband, won the best actor award. Every year the Government of India confers the Dadasaheb honour in recognition of important contributions to Hindi cinema. Suchitra Sen declined to accept this most prestigious honour of cinema, refusing it in 2005. She made that decision because she did not want to travel from Calcutta to Delhi to receive it.
In 1978, after a long twenty-five years of acting, she retired from films. Thereafter she withdrew from public view and devoted herself to the service of the Ramakrishna Mission. In 2005 Suchitra Sen was nominated for the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, but because she objected to travelling to Delhi to receive the award in person from India's President, it was not given to her.
On 17 January 2014, at about 8:25 a.m. Indian time, Suchitra Sen died of a heart attack at Bell Vue Hospital in Calcutta at the age of 82. She had been admitted to hospital three weeks earlier for a lung infection. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced a gun salute at her cremation. India's President Pranab Mukherjee, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the Bharatiya Janata Party's prime-ministerial candidate Narendra Modi sent messages of condolence on Suchitra Sen's death.
Her daughter Moonmoon Sen and her granddaughters Riya Sen and Raima Sen have also acted in films.
