1. Rituparna Sengupta is Indian actress and producer who is known for her work in Bengali and Hindi cinema.
55 Facts About Rituparna Sengupta
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Rituparna Sengupta has won a National Award, two Filmfare Awards, four BFJA Awards and four Anandalok Awards.
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Rituparna Sengupta made her big screen debut opposite Bijay Mohanty in the Odia film Kotia Manish Gotiye Jaga directed by Vijay Bhaskar.
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Rituparna Sengupta made her Hindi cinema debut with Partho Ghosh's Teesra Kaun.
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Rituparna Sengupta was interested in the arts since a young age and learned painting, dancing, singing and handicrafts at a painting school, called Chitrangshu.
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Rituparna Sengupta studied at Carmel High school, and later graduated in history from Lady Brabourne College.
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Rituparna Sengupta made her screen debut opposite Kushal Chakraborty in the Bengali fantasy TV series Shwet Kapot broadcast on DD Bangla.
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Rituparna Sengupta had to play an imprisoned princess shapeshifting into a white dove who falls in love with an imprisoned prince played by Chakraborty.
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Rituparna Sengupta auditioned for the role of Radha in Vijay Bhaskar's Odia film Kotia Manish Gotiye Jaga and was selected.
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Rituparna Sengupta collaborated with Bijoy Mohanty in Bhagya Hate Dori.
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Rituparna Sengupta featured opposite Prosenjit Chatterjee in Vijay Bhaskar's Nag Panchami and Chiranjeet Chakraborty in Prashanta Nanda's Laal Paan Bibi.
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Rituparna Sengupta made her Hindi cinema debut opposite Chunkey Pandey in Partho Ghosh's thriller Teesra Kaun which was a debacle at the box office.
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Rituparna Sengupta featured opposite Chiranjeet Chakraborty in the latter's directorial venture Sansar Sangram.
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Rituparna Sengupta featured opposite Mithun Chakraborty in Raghuram's Bhagya Debata.
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Rituparna Sengupta featured in Zee's home-production Mohini, directed by Hema Malini.
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Rituparna Sengupta hit the pinnacle of her professional rivalry with Satabdi Roy in the late 1990s since the two were offered most of the female leads opposite Prosenjit Chatterjee after Debashree Roy vowed not to work with Chatterjee any longer.
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Sreelekha Mitra claimed that Rituparna Sengupta had an extramarital affair with Chatterjee, which helped her get most of the female leads opposite Chatterjee.
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Rituparna Sengupta featured in Aparna Sen's Paromitar Ek Din.
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In 2004, Rituparna Sengupta had an Odia Film Katha Deithili Maa Ku with Sidhant Mohapatra only successful Venture of 2004, all other 12 releases in Bengali cinema, all of which became box office debacles generating the common notion among the filmmakers that the actress had lost her market value.
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Rituparna Sengupta starred in Sushanta Saha's Sagar Kinare where she shared silver screen with Debashree Roy for the first time.
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Rituparna Sengupta featured opposite Rajpal Yadav in Chandan Arora's critically acclaimed Main, Meri Patni Aur Woh.
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Rituparna Sengupta featured alongside Satabdi Roy and Koel Mallick in Raja Sen's Devipaksha.
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Rituparna Sengupta appeared in a host of films between 2008 and 2011, but only very few of those were commercially or critically successful.
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Rituparna Sengupta starred as Damini in Suman Mukhopadhyay's Chaturanga which was the film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Rabindranath Tagore.
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Rituparna Sengupta featured in Mon Amour: Shesher Kobita Revisited.
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Rituparna Sengupta accepted the role of a woman suffering from a turbulent conjugal relationship in Mahanagar@Kolkata.
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Rituparna Sengupta featured opposite Tapas Paul in Satabdi Roy's Om Shanti that stars Rakhi Sawant in a dance number.
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Rituparna Sengupta skipped the premier show of the film as she felt that Sawant had been given more preference than her in the poster of the film while Roy said that Rituparna Sengupta's grievance was illogical.
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Rituparna Sengupta featured as Begum Jaan in Srijit Mukherji's Rajkahini and met box office success.
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The Times of India detected that Rituparna Sengupta failed to land the coarseness of a rustic prostitute perfectly.
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Rituparna Sengupta negated that it was a misrepresentation while Indrajit Chakraborty, another actor of that jatra claimed that she was the guest director.
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Rituparna Sengupta featured alongside Roopa Ganguly and Indrani Haldar in Aaro Ekbar.
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Rituparna Sengupta won critical favour for her role as Chandrima Mukherjee in Prakash Bharadwaj's Colours of Life.
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Rituparna Sengupta featured as Sohini in Agnidev Chatterjee's Gaheen Hriday alongside Kaushik Sen playing Anupam.
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Rituparna Sengupta featured as a psychiatrist in Pritha Chakraborty's Mukherjee Dar Bou.
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Rituparna Sengupta had a fallout with the director of the film since the latter never fell into her suggestion to increase her screen time.
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Rituparna Sengupta received further critical acclaim for her role in Ahaa Re.
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Rituparna Sengupta's Basundhara is a woman who does not wear her emotions on her sleeves, but there is a scene towards the end of the film, when she can't take it anymore and just breaks down.
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In 2020 Rituparna Sengupta starred in the Thriller The Parcel which was well received by critics and audiences.
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Rituparna Sengupta is a strange mix of someone resigned to her fate in some matters, and at the same time, someone who can go to any extent to prevent any harm that might come to her family.
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In 2022, Rituparna Sengupta appeared in Belashuru, the sequel to the popular family drama Belasheshe.
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Rituparna Sengupta will be starring in her new women-centric crime thriller, Antardrishti directed by Kabir Lal.
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The latter is shot in four languages wherein Rituparna Sengupta plays a double role in the Bengali version.
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Rituparna Sengupta starred in the role of Bijaya in Nirmal Chakraborty's Datta based on Sarat Chandra Chatterjee's novel of the same name.
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Rituparna Sengupta married her childhood friend Sanjay Chakrabarti, founder and CEO of MobiApps on 13 December 1999 in Munshigonj and the couple has a son named Ankan and a daughter named Rishona Niya.
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Rituparna Sengupta has a deferential attitude to Debashree Roy whereas her attitude towards Satabdi Roy is oscillating.
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The relationship between the two got sour during the shooting of Prashanta Nanda's Laal Paan Bibi when Rituparna Sengupta literally broke drown into tears after she was denounced for coming late to the set of the film, by Roy who was the bigger star by then.
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Rituparna Sengupta later claimed that she had been given lesser importance in the poster of the film while Roy said that the former's grievance is meaningless.
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Rituparna Sengupta was absent at the premier show of the film, which generated the speculation in the media that the duo were no longer in talking terms.
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Rituparna Sengupta was infuriated with this interrogation and claimed herself to be evergreen.
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Rituparna Sengupta further added that people should enjoy watching her portraying romantic lead opposite a much younger hero when they do not have objection while watching an elderly hero portraying romantic lead opposite a young actress.
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Rituparna Sengupta later claimed that an Indian journalist would have lost his job if he ever had made such interrogation.
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On 19 July 2019, Rituparna Sengupta was interrogated by ED officers about an amount of near about 7 crore that she had received from the Rose Valley Group led by Gautam Kundu.
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The video at once led to public denunciation and Rituparna Sengupta later deleted the video.
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Rituparna Sengupta joined Reclaim the Night movement but had to leave abruptly as she was denounced by the mob who raised 'go back' slogan against her.