Swatilekha Sengupta

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
May 22, 1950 (75 years old)
Death date
Jun 16, 2021

Swatilekha Sengupta

Known For

Dharmajuddha
1h 51m
Movie 2022

Dharmajuddha

The small town of Ismailpur suffers an apocalyptic night when a sudden riot breaks out and the town descends into anarchy. Four victims of the riots, rival to each other, take shelter in an old woman`s home. As the woman awaits her son`s arrival, conflicts break out between the four members, leading to a fateful night that none of them will forget.

Belashuru
2h 19m
Movie 2022

Belashuru

Arati Sarkar suffers from Alzheimer’s disease. The family realises that they are gradually losing her. They celebrate the bond that parents share with their children and other members of the family.

Borof
Movie 2019

Borof

When Subham goes missing after an expedition to Everest, his loss creates a void in the lives of his wife and mother.

Chauranga
1h 28m
Movie 2016

Chauranga

A fourteen year old Dalit (lower caste) boy in rural India is killed for writing a love letter.

Belaseshe
2h 21m
Movie 2015

Belaseshe

A story of relationships that explores the intricacies of the married life, of life-long companionship, of promises and expectations and love.

The Home and the World
2h 20m
Movie 1985

The Home and the World

When the movie opens, a woman is recalling the events that molded her perspective on the world. Years ago, her husband, a wealthy Western-educated landowner, challenged tradition by providing her with schooling, and inviting her out of the seclusion in which married women were kept, to the consternation of more conservative relatives. Meeting her husband's visiting friend from college, a leader of an economic rebellion against the British, she takes up his political cause, despite her husbands warnings. As the story progresses, the relationship between the woman and the visitor becomes more than platonic, and the political battles, pitting rich against poor and Hindu against Moslem, turn out not to be quite as simple as she had first thought.

Biography

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. 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.

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