'''Supriya Choudhury'''


Actress. Bengali star of 60s socials best known as romantic lead opposite [[Uttam Kumar]] (with whom she apparently featured in 33 films). Spent some of her childhood in Rangoon; introduced into films by veteran Bengali actress Chandrabati Devi. Début in [[Nirmal Dey]]’s [[Basu Parivar]], after which she married and retired from films for some years. Incarnated the ‘heroine’ of reformist middle-class pulp fictions. Adhered more to melodramatic orthodoxy than her chief rival, [[Suchitra Sen]], evoking e.g. Jamuna’s acting in [[P.C. Barua]] productions and generating a sense of nostalgia for pre-Independence middle-class Bengali melodrama, thus providing a kind of cultural legitimation to the weepies of the [[Agradoot]]/Agragami/[[Yatrik]] units and film- makers like Piyush Bose. Known outside Bengal for her extraordinary performance as the heroine in [[Ghatak]]’s [[Meghe Dhaka Tara]] and [[Komal Gandhar]]. These, and [[Ajoy Kar]]’s Suno Baro Nari, were rare instances in which she stepped out of her star image. Turned producer with the commercial flop Uttar Meleni.


FILMOGRAPHY: 1952: Basu Parivar; Prarthana; Madhurati; 1959: Amrapali; Ae Jahar Sey Jahar Noy; Sonar Harin; Shubha Bibaha; 1960: Uttar Megh; Meghe Dhaka Tara; Kono-Ek-Din; Ajana Kahini; Surer Pyasi; Natun Fasal; Suno Baro Nari; 1961: Komal Gandhar; Bishkanya; Agni Sanskar; Swaralipi; Swayambara; 1962: Kajal; Abhisarika; 1963: Begana; Nisithe; Uttarayan; Dui Nari; Surya Sikha; 1964: Aap Ki Parchhaiyan; Door Gagan Ki Chhaon Mein; Ayananta; Lal Patthar; 1965: Kal Tumi Aleya; 1966: Harano Prem; Sudhu Ekti Bachhar; 1967: Akash Chhoan; Jiban Mrityu; 1968: Teen Adhyay; 1969: Chiradiner; Mon-Niye; Sabarmati; 1970: Bilambita Lay; 1971: Jiban Jignasa; 1972: Andha Atit; Chinnapatra; 1973: Bon Palashir Padabali; 1974: Jadi Jantem; Rakta Tilak; 1975: Bagh Bandi Khela; Nagar Darpane; Sanyasi Raja; Sabhyasachi; 1976: Samrat; Banhi Sikha; Mom Batti; 1977: Bhola Moira; Sister; 1978: Dui Purush; 1979: Devdas; 1980: Dui Prithibi; 1981: Kalankini Kankabati; 1982: Uttar Meleni; Iman Kalyan; 1983: Raat Dastay; 1984: Anveshan; 1989: Kari Diye Kinlam; 1992: Honeymoon.


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