Tripti Mitra was a popular Indian actress of Bengali theatre and films, and wife of Sombhu Mitra, noted theatre director, with whom she co-founded pioneering theatre group Bohurupee in 1948.
12 Facts About Tripti Mitra
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Tripti Mitra has acted in films like Jukti Takko Aar Gappo and Dharti Ke Lal.
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Tripti Mitra was awarded Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, the highest Indian recognition given to practicing artists, given by Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama in 1962 for Theatre acting, and the Padma Shri in 1971 by Government of India in Arts field.
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Tripti Mitra was born in Dinajpur on 25 October 1925.
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Tripti Mitra's father was Ashutosh Bhaduri and mother was Shailabala Debi.
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Tripti Mitra had a daughter Shaoli Mitra, who was an actress and director.
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Tripti Mitra had been acting in theatre since her teens.
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Tripti Mitra first acted in her cousin Bijon Bhattacharya's play Agun in 1943.
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Tripti Mitra acted in Ritwik Ghatak's last film, Jukti Takko Aar Gappo.
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In 1948, Shombhu and Tripti Mitra founded their own theatre group named Bohurupee.
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Tripti Mitra acted in innumerable plays mostly along with her husband Sombhu Mitra, a colossus in the field of theatre, to become one of the most legendary beings of Bengali theatre, most famous for her role as Nandini, the protagonist of Rabindranath Tagore's Rakta Karabi.
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Tripti Mitra acted in Jago Hua Savera, a 1959 Urdu movie produced in Dhaka, East Pakistan, based on a Manik Bandopadhya's classic novel Padma Nadir Majhi.