1. Roopa Ganguly was born on 25 November 1966 and is an Indian actress, playback singer and politician.
62 Facts About Roopa Ganguly
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Roopa Ganguly is best known for her portrayal of Draupadi in B R Chopra's hit television series Mahabharat.
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Roopa Ganguly has worked with directors such as Mrinal Sen, Aparna Sen, Goutam Ghose and Rituparno Ghosh.
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Roopa Ganguly is a trained Rabindra Sangeet vocalist and a classical dancer.
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Roopa Ganguly received several awards including a National Award and two BFJA Awards.
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Roopa Ganguly served as the President of BJP Mahila Morcha in West Bengal.
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Roopa Ganguly served as the General Secretary and the Vice-President for the West Bengal Motion Picture Artistes' Forum, a body representing cine artistes.
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Roopa Ganguly's films have commulatively grossed more than US$100 million worldwide.
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Roopa Ganguly's first acting assignment was Bijoy Chatterjee's Hindi short film Nirupama based on Rabindranath Tagore's Bengali short story Dena Paona and broadcast on DD National.
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Roopa Ganguly reprised the role of Draupadi in Chopra's Mahabharat Katha.
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Roopa Ganguly acted in popular Hindi TV series such as Kanoon, Chandrakanta, Karam Apnaa Apnaa, Kasturi, Agle Janam Mohe Bitiya Hi Kijo.
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Roopa Ganguly made her big screen debut opposite Chiranjeet in Prabhat Roy's Bengali film Prateek.
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Roopa Ganguly achieved critical acclaims for her performance in National Award winning Bengali films such as Padma Nadir Majhi by Goutam Ghose, Janani by Sanat Dasgupta and Yugant by Aparna Sen.
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Roopa Ganguly was conferred with Osian's Cinefan Festival Special Jury Mention for her role in Antarmahal.
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Roopa Ganguly was awarded in the Best Actress in a Leading Role category for her role in Sekhar Das's National Award winning Bengali film Krantikaal at the 9th Dhaka International Film Festival.
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Roopa Ganguly was further acclaimed for her roles in films such as Kaaler Rakhal, Chowrasta - The Crossroads of Love, Chaurahen, Na Hannyate, Dutta Vs Dutta and Punascha.
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Roopa Ganguly was a student of Beltala Girls' High School from which she finished her secondary examination.
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Roopa Ganguly completed her Higher Secondary Education from Jodhpur Park Girls' High School.
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Roopa Ganguly had to face severe financial crisis during her college days.
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Roopa Ganguly attended a wedding ceremony where she was introduced to Bijoy Chatterjee who was looking for a fresh face with unplucked eyebrows to play the female lead in his Hindi short film Nirupama based on Rabindranath Tagore's Bengali short story Dena Paona.
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Roopa Ganguly was initially hesitant to accept his proposal but later gave her nod on the insistence of her aunt.
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Roopa Ganguly was enjoined by Ramaprasad Banik to appear for a look test for the female lead in his Bengali TV series Muktabandha.
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Roopa Ganguly suggested Banik to find another actress other than Ganguly whom he considered to be dowdy.
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Roopa Ganguly played Durga, a rural prostitute who is of service to several Indian nationalists who intend to eradicate subaltern plight.
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Roopa Ganguly accepted a role opposite Chiranjeet Chakraborty in Prabhat Roy's Bengali film Prateek.
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Roopa Ganguly had to enact the role of the doctor who treats the protagonist.
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The film failed to win critical favour while Roopa Ganguly's performance was critically acclaimed.
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Roopa Ganguly accepted another role opposite Chakraborty in Biresh Chatterjee's Bengali film Tufan.
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Roopa Ganguly featured in Mrinal Sen's much acclaimed Hindi Film Ek Din Achanak and Basu Chatterjee's Hindi film Kamla Ki Maut.
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Roopa Ganguly was finally chosen since her Hindi diction was better.
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Roopa Ganguly was hailed for her performance in the Game of Dice sequence.
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Roopa Ganguly then asks Bhishma, a veteran of the Kuru clan whether Yudhishthira has the right to put her in stake.
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Roopa Ganguly was so engrossed that she wept on even after her shot was over.
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Roopa Ganguly later claimed that her performance in the TV series was quite mediocre.
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Roopa Ganguly received wide attention from Bollywood media and producers for her role in Chopra's Mahabharat, yet she never had a significant elevation in her Bollywood career.
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Roopa Ganguly said that things became very hard since she was an outsider and had to face the problem of casting couch.
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Roopa Ganguly featured as Rama in Tariq Shah's Hindi film Baahar Aane Tak.
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Roopa Ganguly herself considered this role as a big challenge as it was inherently contrary to her personality.
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Roopa Ganguly eschewed the offer since the role was not meaty enough.
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Roopa Ganguly then, featured in Sekhar Das's award-winning Bengali film Krantikaal, where she played the character of Subarna, who befriends a terrorist who broke into her house.
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Roopa Ganguly appeared in Raj Mukherjee's Bengali film Nagordola, where she portrayed the character of an arrogant and rude woman who gets diagnosed as having throat cancer and realises that life is not like it has conventionally been and gives her full consent to her own unmarried daughter to give birth of her baby and to bring it up.
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Roopa Ganguly acted in the much acclaimed Bengali film Ek Mutho Chabi, produced by herself, where she played the character of an established actress who has a car accident, consequently losing her career.
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In December 2005, Roopa Ganguly was named by The Telegraph in the list of Five Crowning Queens of 2005 alongside Rani Mukerji, Preity Zinta, Konkona Sen Sharma and Vidya Balan.
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Roopa Ganguly then appeared in Hindi TV series such as Love Story and Agle Janam Mohe Bitiya Hi Kijo.
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Roopa Ganguly appeared in Birsa Dasgupta's Jaani Dyakha Hawbe, which after much commercial expectation proved to be a failure at the box office.
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Roopa Ganguly played the protagonist in the story Smriti which is based on Dehantar by Sharadindu Bandopadhyay.
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Roopa Ganguly played Kuhu, a widow who sees her deceased husband in every single man she dates.
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Roopa Ganguly appeared in Riingo's Bengali film Na Hannyate, where she played the character of Jui, who is caught in a situation where she could save only one of her kids and leave the other to die.
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Roopa Ganguly played the role of goddess Durga in the film.
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Roopa Ganguly appeared in Rana Basu's Bengali film Namte Namte.
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Roopa Ganguly appeared in Shekhar Das's Bengali film Nayanchampar Dinratri.
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Roopa Ganguly was offered the role of Jiji in Kushan Nandy's Babumoshai Bandookbaaz, but was later replaced by Divya Dutta.
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In 2023, Roopa Ganguly portrayed Bithika Mitra in Meyebela, a Bengali TV series produced by Surinder Films.
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Roopa Ganguly abruptly left the series after a few months citing that the show contained "regressive content".
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In 2015, Roopa Ganguly joined Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election and quit Artiste Forum since she believed that a political figure should not hold a significant designation in Artiste Forum.
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In West Bengal Assembly elections 2016, Roopa Ganguly lost from Howrah North to Trinamool Congress counterpart and cricketer Laxmi Ratan Shukla.
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Roopa Ganguly sustained head injuries and had to be admitted to hospital.
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Roopa Ganguly was nominated to the Rajya Sabha in October 2016 in place of cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu, who resigned earlier.
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Roopa Ganguly was married to Dhrubo Mukerjee, a mechanical engineer hailing from West Bengal, Kolkata from 1992 until 2007.
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Roopa Ganguly was in a live-in relationship with the Bengali singer Dibyendu Mukherjee.
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Roopa Ganguly maintained a pleasant formality whenever she met Mukherjee after their separation.
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Roopa Ganguly had won numerous awards, including a National Award, Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards two times and Kalakar Awards three times.