1. Satabdi Roy is the recipient of BFJA Awards for two times.
28 Facts About Satabdi Roy
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Satabdi Roy is a Trinamool Congress Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha since 2009.
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Satabdi Roy made her Bollywood debut in National Award winning director Jyoti Sarup's Naya Zaher.
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Satabdi Roy collaborated with Tapan Sinha for the second time in his Antardhan.
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Satabdi Roy was conferred with the BFJA Awards for the Best Supporting Actress for the second time in 2005, for her performance in Raja Sen's Debipaksha.
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Satabdi Roy made her directorial debut with Abhinetri, which was an unequivocal reflection of the life and career of Bengali matinee idol Suchitra Sen.
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Satabdi Roy was born in Agarpara to Shailen and Nilima Roy.
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Satabdi Roy passed her Madhyamik from Sorojini High School in 1986 and later attended Jogamaya Devi College, a women's college affiliated to the University of Calcutta.
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Satabdi Roy made her film debut opposite Prosenjit Chatterjee in Tapan Sinha's much acclaimed Bengali film Atanka, which earned her the BFJA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting role in 1987.
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Satabdi Roy was paired with Tapas Paul in this film.
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Satabdi Roy reprised her chemistry with Paul in Dinen Gupta's Antaranga and Tarun Majumdar's Parashmani.
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Satabdi Roy featured opposite Tapas Paul in Angar that became a major financial success.
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The year 1990 saw Satabdi Roy emerging out as a bankable film star with her two back-to-back commercial successes Apan Amar Apan by Tarun Majumdar and Abishkar by Salil Dutta.
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Satabdi Roy was noted for her role in Tapan Saha's Alingan.
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Satabdi Roy made her Bollywood debut in National Award winning director Jyoti Sarup's Naya Zaher.
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In 1992, Satabdi Roy was approached to play the role of Sathi in Sreekanta Guha Thakurta's love-triangle film Shraddhanjali.
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Satabdi Roy hit the pinnacle of her professional rivalry with Rituparna Sengupta 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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Satabdi Roy then accepted the role of an embittered widow in Raja Sen's social drama Debipaksha.
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Satabdi Roy was approached to play the lead in Teesta, a stage adaptation of Bratya Basu's play Mukhomukhi Bosibar.
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Satabdi Roy portrays an advocate in her upcoming Hindi film The Jangipur Trial.
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In 2011, a member of Indian censor board informed the chief minister Mamata Banerjee that Maya Mukherjee, the protagonist in the film Paribartan directed by Satabdi Roy was modelled on the chief minister.
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Satabdi Roy cast Rituparna Sengupta opposite Tapas Paul in her directorial venture Om Shanti.
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When interrogated whether the professional rivalry of the actresses duo would affect the shooting, Satabdi Roy declined any such rivalry.
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Satabdi Roy rather presumed that their collaboration would appeal the viewers.
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Satabdi Roy cast Rakhi Sawant for an item number in the film.
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Sengupta skipped the premier show of the film as she felt that Sawant had been given preference to herself in the poster of the film while Satabdi Roy said that Sengupta's grievance was baseless.
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Satabdi Roy became the Member of Parliament, having won in the Lok Sabha election on a Trinamool Congress ticket from the Birbhum constituency of West Bengal in 2009.
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Satabdi Roy again won from the same constituency on a Trinamool Congress ticket in 2014,2019 and 2024.