A guide to Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal and Bengali culture.
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Bengali Cinema
Rituparna Sengupta


Rituparna was born in Kolkata; went to Carmel and Gokhel Memorial for schooling, and then graduated from Lady Brabourne College with history major. While in high school, she was picked by Prabhat Roy for his film 'Swet Patharer Thala'. She was able to draw considerable attention in her first movie. Since that point Rituparna acted in many movies and became a popular actress of her time. Rituparna excelled with her performance in both commercial mainstream and parallel films. She received National award for Best Actress for her role in Rituparno Ghosh's 'Dahan'. Rituparna also acted in Hindi films and still acting in both Bengali and Hindi films.
     Apart from acting, Rituparna is a dancer and performs group dance shows with her team. She also launched a movie production company.

Interview (in Bengali)

Filmography:
Film Year Director Co-actor
Swet Patharer Thala 1992 Prabhat Roy Bhaskar Banerjee
Laathi 1996 Prabhat Roy Abhishek Chatterjee
Dahan 1997 Rituparno Ghosh Abhishek Chatterjee
Baba Keno Chakar 1997 Swapan Saha  
Utsab 2000 Rituparno Ghosh Prosenjit Chatterjee
Paramitar Ekdin 2000 Aparna Sen Aparna Sen
Jamaibabu Zindabad 2001 Haranath Chakrabarty Prosenjit Chatterjee
Aatmio Swajan 2002 Raja Sen Tapas Pal
Mondo Meyer Upakhyyan 2002 Buddhadeb Dasgupta Samata Das
Alo 2003 Tarun Majumdar Kunal Mitra
Kaalo Chita 2004 Shatarupa Sanyal Sharad Kapur
Nishijapon 2005 Sandip Ray Sabyasachi Chakraborty
Mein Meri Patni Aur Oh 2005 Chandan Arora Rajpal Yadav
Debipaksha 2005 Raja Sen Satabdi Roy, Koyel Mallik
Anuranan 2006 Aniruddha Roychoudhury Rahul Bose