Films of legendary actress Suchitra Sen

Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre(IGCC) in association with Asian Paints, IRCON and Marico Bangladesh is organising a Retrospective of the films of the legendary Indian actress, Suchitra Sen from January 23-25, at the IGCC, Gulshan-1.
Suchitra Sen, born Rama Dasgupta, in Pabna district of Bangladesh, was a versatile actress of Indian cinema who had a highly successful and decorated career spanning more than two and a half decades from the early 1950s to the late 1970s. She set such high benchmarks for Bengali cinema which inarguably have been difficult to attain even till this day.
Suchitra Sen is the first Bengali actress to be awarded at an international film festival – the Moscow Film festival in 1963 - as best actress for her role in “Saat Paake Badha”. She was awarded the Padma Shri in 1972 by the Government of India. Notably, in 2005, she refused to receive the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in person, the highest cinematic award in India, in order to stay out of the public eye. In 2012, she was conferred West Bengal government's highest award Banga Bibhushan for her lifetime contributions to Bengali cinema.
 Suchitra Sen also acted in several popular Hindi films. She was widely acclaimed for her very first Hindi film Devdas in 1955. She was nominated for the Filmfare best actress award in 1963 for the film Mamta and also in 1976 for the film Aandhi.
Suchitra Sen passed away early in the morning on 17 January, 2014 in Kolkata. She was 82. Sen's demise has left a big void in Indian cinema, but she will remain in the hearts of Indian cinema-lovers forever.
The Suchitra Sen Film Retrospective will commence at 6:30 PM on January 23, with a brief discussion on the life and times of late Suchitra Sen in which eminent Bangladeshi film and culture personalities, Syed Hasan Imam, Pijush Bandyopadhyay and Abdur Razzak will participate. This will be followed by the screening of the first film Saptapadi.  Subsequent films are Uttar Falguni , Saat Pake Badha  and Aandhi (January 24). Devdas and Pathe Holo Deri follow on January 25.

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