Debashree Roy was born on 8 August 1962 and known as Debasree Roy, is an Indian actress, dancer, choreographer, politician and animal rights activist.
110 Facts About Debashree Roy
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Debashree Roy was a bankable star of Bengali cinema during 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s.
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Debashree Roy received more than forty awards including a National Award, three BFJA Awards, five Kalakar Awards and an Anandalok Award.
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Debashree Roy is the founder of Debasree Roy Foundation, a non-profit organisation that works for the cause of stray animals.
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Debashree Roy's first acting assignment was Hiranmoy Sen's Bengali devotional film Pagal Thakur where she was cast as an infant Ramakrishna Paramhansa.
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Debashree Roy's first leading role in Bengali cinema came with Arabinda Mukhopadhyay's film Nadi Theke Sagare.
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Debashree Roy shot to wider recognition for her role in Aparna Sen's National Award winning directorial debut 36 Chowringhee Lane and Kanak Mishra's Jiyo To Aise Jiyo under Rajshri Productions.
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Debashree Roy appeared in several other Hindi films such as Bura Aadmi, Justice Chaudhury, Phulwari, Kabhie Ajnabi The, Seepeeyan and Pyar Ka Sawan.
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Debashree Roy was conferred with BFJA Award for Best Actress for the first time for her performance in Indar Sen's Bengali film Thikana.
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Debashree Roy collaborated with Rituparno Ghosh for the second time in his National Award winning Bengali film Asukh which earned her the BFJA Award for Best Actress.
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Debashree Roy was critically acclaimed for her performances in films such as Anutap, Sandhyatara, Kaal Sandhya, Prohor and Shilpantar.
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Debashree Roy was born and brought up in a Bengali family in Kolkata.
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Debashree Roy's father Birendra Kishore Roy was an employee at West Bengal Finance Corporation.
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Debashree Roy is the youngest and sixth child after Purnima Lahiri, Krishna Mukherjee, Ramendra Kishore Roy, Mrigen Roy and Tanushree Bhattacharya.
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Debashree Roy's second eldest sister Krishna Mukherjee is a former playback singer and wife of filmmaker, Ram Mukherjee.
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Debashree Roy's deceased brother Ramendra Kishore Roy was a cinematographer of South Indian cinema.
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Mrigen Debashree Roy is an event manager and executive producer of Bengali cinema.
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Debashree Roy's sister Tanushree Bhattacharya, popularly known as Jhumki Roy is a former actress of Bengali cinema and a playback singer.
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Debashree Roy was an infant when she was introduced to cinema.
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Debashree Roy's mother Arati Roy was a student of Shyamal Mitra and was thus well- acquainted with a number of music composers and filmmakers of Bengali cinema.
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Debashree Roy was cast in the role of an infant Ramkrishna Paramhansa in Hiranmoy Sen's devotional film Pagal Thakur alongside Chhaya Devi playing Chandramani Devi, mother of Ramakrishna.
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Debashree Roy was credited as "Kumari Chumki" in the film.
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Debashree Roy was noted for the first time for her role in Hiranmoy Sen's another devotional film Balak Gadadhar, her second film assignment where she was cast as a young Ramkrishna Paramhansa.
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Debashree Roy was cast alongside veterans like Biswajit Chatterjee and Sandhya Roy in the film.
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Debashree Roy portrayed Ranu who, every night, stealthily goes out to meet a mysterious woman whom she believes to be her mother.
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In 1975 Debashree Roy was finally summoned for the title role in Majumdar's Balika Badhu.
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An upset Debashree Roy, then accepted a role in Sushil Mukherjee's Bengali drama Sudur Niharika where she was credited as "Rumki Debashree Roy".
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Sandhya Debashree Roy who played the other female lead in the film suggested the director to cast Debashree Roy in the lead opposite Chakraborty.
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Debashree Roy was critically appreciated for her gaze in the film.
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Debashree Roy had to enact the adolescence as well as the adulthood of the character she was given.
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Debashree Roy then featured opposite Anil Dhawan in Kuldeep Pandey's Hindi film Ghata.
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Debashree Roy acted opposite Prem Nazir in N Sankaran Nair's Malayalam film Ee Ganam Marakkumo where she was credited as "Rugmini Roy".
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Debashree Roy was cast alongside Sandhya Roy, Kali Banerjee, Ruma Guha Thakurta, Tapas Paul and Mahua Roychoudhury in the film.
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Debashree Roy portrayed the character of Bini, the innocent sibling of Saraswati portrayed by Mahua Roychoudhury.
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Debashree Roy was again cast in the role of the chirpy sibling of Mahua Roychoudhury in Manu Sen's blockbuster Bengali film Subarnagolak.
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Debashree Roy featured in Dilip Mukherjee's Bengali film Father alongside Soumitra Chatterjee, Ranjit Mallick, Haradhan Banerjee, Sumitra Mukherjee, Mithu Mukherjee and Mahua Roychoudhury.
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Debashree Roy was initially hesitant to do the love-making scene with Dhritiman Chatterjee who played Samaresh.
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The film was a major failure at box office, still Debashree Roy was applauded by media personalities due to her good looks and unlaboured screen presence.
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Debashree Roy played Vidya, the love interest of Kundan played by Arun Govil.
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Debashree Roy featured opposite Tapas Paul in Bijoy Bose's Bengali drama Samapti.
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Debashree Roy featured in K Raghavendra Rao's multistarrer Hindi film Justice Chaudhury alongside Jeetendra, Hema Malini, Moushumi Chatterjee, Sridevi and Raj Kiran.
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Debashree Roy was paired with Shashi Puri in this film.
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Debashree Roy featured alongside Kanowaljit Singh and Om Puri in Akash Jain's film Seepeeyan, where she portrayed the role of a beautiful woman who flings herself into water after her boyfriend refused to marry her and is saved by another man whom she later marries.
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Debashree Roy played the character of Piyali, a highly pampered girl who decides to poison a glass of milk that her husband was supposed to take.
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Debashree Roy played the character of Geeta, who decides to sacrifice her love for the sake another woman who had previously been her boyfriend's ladylove.
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The film was over-hyped regarding the Bollywood debut of Sandeep Patil and Debashree Roy's sensuous enacting with him in the song sequence Geet Mere Hothon Ko De Gaya Koi.
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Debashree Roy was paired with Chiranjeet Chakraborty for the first time in Madhumoy, which stars Prosenjit Chatterjee and Mahua Roychoudhury.
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The film was a hit and gave acknowledgement to Debashree Roy's pairing with Prosenjit Chatterjee as a bankable one.
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Debashree Roy further received critical acclaim in her role in the Drama Anutap which was directed by Prabhat Debashree Roy as well as rave reviews for her performance in Thikana for which she won her first BFJA Award for Best Actress.
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Debashree Roy featured in Rakte Lekha where the number Ami Kolkatar Rosogolla became very popular.
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Debashree Roy essayed the role of Aditi, who decides to commit suicide after her boyfriend refused her to marry, but gets interrupted by her mother.
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Which in turn leaves an ample scope to her two strong rivals Rituparna Sengupta and Satabdi Debashree Roy who became choices opposite Chatterjee in most of his films in late 1990s.
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Debashree Roy gave birth to speculation and controversy for her role as Tishyarakshita in Nitish Roy's Samarpan aired on Zee Tv.
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Debashree Roy portrayed the role of Sarada Devi in Swami Vivekananda.
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Debashree Roy appeared in Tapan Sinha's Bengali film Ajab Ganyer Ajab Katha, under the banner of Shree Venkatesh Films.
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Debashree Roy appeared in a cameo role in Tapan Sinha's Hindi film Daughters of This Century.
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In 2000, Debashree Roy appeared in Debanjali which was debacle at box office.
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Debashree Roy appeared in Subrata Sen's Ek Je Achhe Kanya, which was major commercial success.
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Debashree Roy was paired with Sabyasachi Chakrabarty in this film.
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Debashree Roy appeared in Goutam Ghose's much acclaimed Bengali film Dekha, alongside Soumitra Chatterjee.
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Debashree Roy played the character of a woman who works in a circus and draws masses by her act of eating raw live snakes or hens.
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Debashree Roy portrayed Hemangini, who shelters an orphan who is severely exploited by his stepsister.
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Debashree Roy featured as the titular protagonist in Bratya Basu's Teesta.
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Debashree Roy portrayed Teesta who fails to communicate with the world of people and finds solace in nature.
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Debashree Roy featured opposite Mithun Chakrabarty in Ravi Kinagi's Yuddho.
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Debashree Roy then featured in MLA Fatakesto and Mahaguru.
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Debashree Roy made her small screen debut in Soumitra Chatterjee starrer Bengali tv series Dena Paona.
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Debashree Roy choreographed most of her dance numbers in Bengali films.
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From 2008, Debashree Roy made some impolitic choices of selecting films that did not equalise her stature and led her career into a major setback.
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Debashree Roy plays Purnima who tries to rescue the women mired in the profession of prostitution.
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Debashree Roy was appreciated for her performance in Goutam Sen's Bengali feature film Pakhi.
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Debashree Roy featured in Gaurav Pandey's Shukno Lanka which was a critical and commercial success.
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Debashree Roy portrayed the character of a loving woman whose husband is indifferent to her.
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Debashree Roy featured in Thikana Rajpath directed by Kanoj Das.
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Debashree Roy played Padma who is insisted by Manisha played by Indrani Halder to surrogate for the latter but left in lurch when Manisha becomes pregnant.
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Debashree Roy featured as Siddha in Nirmalya Banerjee's Ekdin Thik.
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Debashree Roy stated that she is not favourite of any producer or any director who prefers to cast in all his films some other actors who are his favourites.
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Debashree Roy featured in Antare Bahire, and Life in Park Street.
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In 2013, Debashree Roy featured in a role of a gynaecologist in Benoy Mittra's Antaraal.
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Debashree Roy was up on her feet regarding the promotion of the film.
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Debashree Roy had to share her screen with Ilias Kanchan who she described as a delight to work with.
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Debashree Roy was slated to be seen in Anup Sengupta's new venture Tumi Ki Sei.
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Debashree Roy later changed her mind and refused to star opposite Chatterjee.
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Debashree Roy portrays a woman who has sacrificed all her longing for the sake of her in-laws.
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Debashree Roy received backlash from a part of netizens who claimed that she had lost all her charm and splendour to portray a female lead.
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Debashree Roy gives her nod to Sourav Chakraborty's Bengali web series Chemistry Mashi.
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Debashree Roy portrays Sucharita Lahiri, a youtuber who explains Chemistry through cooking.
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Debashree Roy enacted the role of Vasabdatta, a celebrated courtesan who meets a young mendicant on her way and pleads him to accept her hospitality at her home.
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Debashree Roy was careful enough regarding the sobriety and delicacy while rehearsing it.
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Debashree Roy was exposed to Indian folk dances as well by Kelucharan Mohapatra and took a keen and sincere interest to adapt them on stage.
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Debashree Roy ventured into an attempt to manifest the forms of folk dances of Bengal in Swapner Sandhane, the much acclaimed production of Natraj.
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Debashree Roy was most applauded for her wider attempt to present the various forms of Indian folk dance in Bichitro, the first abroad production of Natraj.
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Debashree Roy created a jugglery with the rapid change in posture and movement especially in the north-eastern Indian sequence and the spectators were bewitched and awe-struck.
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Debashree Roy has really been a sincere observer and lover of Indian heritage.
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Debashree Roy has that probing Indian mind that keeps searching and researching on what the modern, cultural outcome has descended from or the overlooked factors of our heritage.
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Debashree Roy had an interrupted dance career due to her commitment to film industry.
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Debashree Roy was always in a dilemma regarding which to focus primarily on between dance and film.
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Besides, Debashree Roy was getting offered to essay a lot of substantial roles and she did not want to refuse them for the sake of her stage career.
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Debashree Roy rendered the nine moods of Bharata Muni's Natya Shastra in Navaras, where she exhibited an innovative dance form imbued with elements from Indian classical, tribal and folk dance.
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Debashree Roy has been acclaimed for her vigour while dancing and to sustain this she has always been careful enough regarding the selection of the colour for her costumes, which ranged from tint, tone and shade to exotic ones.
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Debashree Roy was acclaimed for her use of mirrors and curtains on stage, which she claimed to have been used to vivify her presentation.
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Debashree Roy is the founder of Debasree Debashree Roy Foundation, an NGO which works for the welfare of the stray animals.
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Debashree Roy gave her backing to Humane Society International's campaign against testing cosmetics on animals.
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In 1983, Debashree Roy met Sandeep Patil on the set of Kabhie Ajnabi The and reportedly, the actress got involved into an affair with the cricketer who was already married at that time.
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Debashree Roy was rumoured to be the sole reason for the failure of Patil's first marriage.
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Debashree Roy claimed that she was a good friend to Patil and nothing beyond that.
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Debashree Roy filed a lawsuit against an article on her, published in the September 1983 edition of Stardust magazine since the article claimed that she was married to Patil.
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In 1994, Debashree Roy married Prosenjit Chatterjee and they separated in 1995.
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Debashree Roy is the maternal aunt of Bollywood actress Rani Mukerji.
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In February 2021, she filed a defamation case at Alipore Court, against Sovan Chatterjee and Baishakhi Banerjee who claimed that Debashree Roy deceived the people of Raidighi constituency.