Rituparna Sengupta

 Rituparna Sengupta, the reigning queen of Tollywood started her career in the mid nineties, with her first film Swet Patharer Thala directed by Pravat Roy, an eminent director of Tollywood. In the film she played the teenage lead. That year the film got National Award in the category of the best Bengali film. After that there was no looking back . She became the undisputed heroine or queen of the Bengal Film Industry.

 She became famous in all the commercial flicks: Moner Manush, Sangsar Sangram, Swami Kano Ashami, Sudhu Ekbar Balo, Swamir Adesh, Tumi Ele Tai, Swasurbari Zindabad, Aalo, Akrosh, Hungama, Chander Bari and many others.

She has worked with directors like Aparna Sen, Pravat Roy, Biresh Chetterjee, Swapan Saha, Haranath Chakraborty, Sanat Dutta, Sujit Guha, Chiranjit Chakraborty and other big directors.

Her career in parallel cinema started little later when Rituparno Ghosh, first gave her a break in he film Dahang talent, which actually brought her the best reward in the film industry i.e.—The National Award for the Best Actress in Dahan. Another film that brought out my acting skills to the fullest was Paromitar Ek Din. Mrinal Sen complemented me by saying that my performance was very balanced."

Rituparna Sengupta

Henceforth she worked with Rituparno Ghosh, Buddhadeb Dasgupta, Aparna Sen, Sandip Ray, Tarun Majumder, Raja Sen, Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury, Ashok Viswanathan and others.

Some of her famous films are: Dahan, Utsab, Paromitar Ekdin, Mandyo Meyer Upakhyan, Aalo, Devipakshya, Dwitiya Basanta, Byatikrami, Nishijapon, Sangshoy, Anuranann.

She has acted in lot of films of other languages of south and eastern regions.. Her releases are: Tarun Chetterjee’s Dandyo, Ashok Viswanathan’s Andhakarer Shabdo, Subhrojit Mitra’s Mon Amour, Subhas Sen’s Bouma Zindabad, Raj Basu’s Piyalir Password, Anjan Dutta's B.B.D. in Hindi . She has another 7-8 films on the floor at present.

Recently her foray in Mumbai film industry has created waves with Main Meri Patni aur Woh, she got lot of critical acclaim. Her second film Unns, which is a love story and now released all over India Gauri - The Unborn.

Rituparna came to Washington DC recently for inauguration of her another movie , Piyalir Password  which is based on a story here in the US . During her brief stay in the US Capitol, she came to VOA Bangla Service . This interview is about her film career and future plans.