Suchitra Sen Height, Weight, Age, Affairs, Husband, Biography & More

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About Suchitra Sen:

Suchitra Sen was an Indian actress who worked in Bengali and Hindi cinema. The movies in which she was paired opposite Uttam Kumar became classics in the history of Bengali cinema.

Bio/Wiki:

Real name	Roma Dasgupta ^[1]
Nick Name	Krishna ^[2]
Profession	Actor

Physical Stats:

Height (approx.)	in centimeters– 161 cm in meters- 1.61 m in feet & inches- 5′ 3″
Eye Colour	Black
Hair Colour	Black

Family:

Husband/Spouse	Dibanath Sen (marine engineer)
Children	Daughter- Moon Moon Sen
Parents	Father- Korunamoy Dasgupta (health inspector with the Pabna municipality, retired from service in 1951) Mother- Indira Devi (a homemaker) Suchitra Sen with mother Indira Devi and daughter Moon Moon Sen
Siblings	Brother- 1)- Nimai Dasgupta 2)- Gautam Dasgupta Sister- 1)- Uma Dasgupta 2)- Runa Dasgupta 3)- Hena Dasgupta 4)- Leena Dasgupta

Personal Life:

Date of Birth	April 6, 1931(Monday)
Birthplace	Bhanga Bari village of Belkuchi Upazila, Pabna, Bengal Presidency, British India
Date of Death	January 17, 2014
Place of Death	Belle Vue Clinic, Kolkata
Age (at the time of death)	82 Years
Death Cause	Cardiac arrest^[3]
Zodiac sign	Aries
Address	Bungalow- Vedanta, at 52/4/1, Ballygunge Circular Road, Kolkata 700019
Nationality	Indian
Hometown	Kolkata
School	Pabna Government Girls High School
Religion	Hinduism ^[4]
Ethnicity	Bengali

Awards:

Awards, Honours, Achievements

Won
BFGA Awards
1962: Best actress award for Saptapadi.
1964: Best actress award for Uttar Phalguni.
1973: Best actress award for Alo Amaar Alo.
1976: Best actress award for Aandhi.
Filmfare Award
1975: Best actress award for Priya Bandhabi.
2014: Posthumously awarded for East Lifetime Achievement Award.
Nominated
Filmfare Award
1967: Best actress award for Mamta.
1976: Best actress award for Aandhi.
1963: Best actress award for Saat Pakey Bandha at the Moscow film festival.
1972: Awarded with Padma Shri for her works in arts.
2012: She was given the Government’s highest honour of West Bangal, Banga Bibhushan.

Relationships & more:

Marital Status (at the time of death)	Married
Affairs	Uttam Kumar (Bengali actor) in 1950s
Marriage Date	Year, 1947

Favorite Things:

Actor	Dilip Kumar
Novel	Of all the Tagore novels

Money Factor:

Net Worth	$1.5 Million
Salary	Under Review
Source of Income	TV Actress
Cars	Not Available
House	Living In Own House.

Some unknown facts about:

Suchitra Sen was a veteran Indian actress, who worked in Hindi and Bengali films. She became the first Indian actress to win the Moscow International Film Festival award for the movie Saat Pakey Bandha IN 1963.

Suchitra Sen was married at a very young of 15.

Assistant Director Nitish Roy changed her name from Roma Dasgupta to Suchitra Sen as he felt that Roma Sen was very small and uninteresting for a movie star.

Suchitra is perhaps the first Indian actress in Bengal to have made her film debut after marriage and motherhood.

Her husband Dibanath Sen was the son of a very famous industrialist, Adinath Sen.

Her daughter Moon Moon Sen and granddaughters Raima and Riya Sen, are very famous actresses in the Hindi and Bengali film industries.

She shared a very good on-screen chemistry with Uttam Kumar and out of 60 films of her career, she was paired with Uttam Kumar in 30 films.

Suchitra had also recorded a song in her own voice.

Sanjeev Kapoor was very close to him. Whenever he visited Kolkata, he would always go to meet Suchitra.

Suchitra once shared an incident that showed, she didn’t like Raj Kapoor much. She said,

He came to my residence offering a lead role and, as I took my seat, he suddenly sat near my foot and offered me a bouquet of roses while offering the role. I rejected the offer. I did not like his personality. The way he behaved – sitting near my foot -did not befit a man.”

Suchitra Sen was known as a person who likes to work in her own way. Once, Suchitra Sen was shooting a film under the direction of Haridas Bhattacharya. Suchitra Sen wanted to enact a scene in her own way, but Haridas Bhattacharya didn’t agree on this. After having a heated argument with him, she walked off the set. Later, when the director agreed, she started the shooting again.

In 2005, she withdrew her hands from accepting Dada Saheb Phalke Award, to remain unnoticed by the media.

She expressed her desire to act in the role of Damini in Rabindranath Tagore’s Chaturanga, but it never happened.

Director Parmendra Mitra was planning to cast Suchitra Sen in his upcoming movie, but the producer Hemen Ganguly suddenly committed suicide and the film was never made.

Reportedly, her great success in Indian cinema created differences in her married life.

She had also advertised for the LUX soap.

While shooting for the movie Sat Pakey Bandha, she experienced that whatever was written in the script was actually happening in her real life. She shared that during the shooting, she daily had an argument with her husband.

One morning I tore apart my husband’s shirt at home. During the shoot in the afternoon, I had a similar scene of the quarrel. I told the director I wanted to tear apart Soumitra Chatterjee’s shirt and he agreed.”

Suchitra Sen’s last Bollywood film Aandhi was banned in India just after the release. Many believed that Suchitra Sen was playing the role of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. There were rumours that PM had asked Prime Minister Office (PMO) officials to watch out the movie in order to take the decision of lifting the ban imposed on it. The movie was released in 1977 when the Janta party came into rule, and Gulzaar Sahab deleted the drinking and smoking scenes of Suchitra Sen from the movie.