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Shobha Sen (also known as Sova Sen) is a renowned Bengali theater and film actress.
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Shobha Sen
Shobha Sen (also known as Sova Sen) is a renowned Bengali theater and film actress.
Biography
She was wife of Utpal Dutt and the couple had one daughter, Dr. Bishnupriya Dutt,who is a professor of theatre history in the School of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She had four grandchildren.Usually with
Filmography of Shobha Sen (13 films)
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Shadows of Time (2005)
, 2h2Directed by Florian Gallenberger
Genres Drama, Horror, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution
Actors Prashant Narayanan, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Irrfan Khan, Tillomata Shome, Soumitra Chatterjee, Shobha Sen
Roles Old Masha
Rating75%
The film opens with the elderly Ravi (Soumitra Chatterjee) driving to an abandoned carpet factory in West Bengal. As he explores the remains of the factory, he finds his bed and other memoirs. The story flashbacks to the early 1940s in pre-independent India, with Ravi Gupta (Sikandar Agarwal) a child laborer in the factory, saving up his earnings so that he can leave the factory one day. Ravi befriends a girl of his own age, Masha (Tumpa Das), who's been sold to the factory by her father. When the obstinate factory manager (Biplab Dasgupta) tries to sell Masha to a rich man, Ravi unsuccessfully tries to match the bid. He subsequently gives her the money to escape, and as they part Masha promises to wait for Ravi at every full moon at Calcutta's great Shiva temple.
Pasand Apni Apni (1983)
, 2h5Directed by Basu Chatterjee
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Ashok Kumar, Mithun Chakraborty, Atul Agnihotri, Utpal Dutt, Rati Agnihotri, A. K. Hangal
Rating71%
An insane misunderstanding that leads to love. Here, an almost-out-of-work actress - Geeta - accepts a ride from the chauffeur of wealthy industrialist Sandeep Anand. She is seen descending from Sandeep's limo and assumed to be his fiancé, all unbeknownst to herself. As a result, wonderful things begin to happen to her - her theatre company makes her the leading lady of all their productions, she is courted and fêted wherever she goes and a journalist becomes her constant shadow. She finds herself falling for him only to find out that he is none other than Sandeep Anand!
The Citizen (1977)
, 2h7Directed by Ritwik Ghatak
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Actors Kali Banerjee, Anil Chatterjee, Shobha Sen
Rating78%
Ramu, a fresh graduate is searching for a job like many others in post-Partition Kolkata. The mother is yearnful of older times when the family used to live in a better house, but she bears her suffering quietly, for the most part. The father is myopic and full of cynicism for he does not share the idealistic aspirations of his two children that better times will come. The light of Ramu's life is his girlfriend Uma, who lives in an equally precarious situation with her sister Shephali and her mother. Jatin is an even poorer minor character living near Uma's dwelling who Ramu avoids because he cannot help the former out financially. To make ends meet, Ramu's mother takes in Sagar, a poor chemist, as a paying guest. Ramu does not get a job and cannot pay rent even with the meagre money that he gets from Sagar and is insulted by the landlord. Ultimately the family is evicted.
Ek Adhuri Kahani (1971)
Directed by Mrinal Sen
Genres Drama
Actors Utpal Dutt, Shekhar Chatterjee, Shobha Sen
Rating69%
Up in the Clouds (1965)
Directed by Mrinal Sen
Actors Soumitra Chatterjee, Aparna Sen, Subhendu Chatterjee, Shobha Sen, Haradhan Bandopadhyay
Rating72%
It is the story of the longings of a middle class executive to rise in stature and greater social acceptability. The young man still trying to find a place in the corporate world puts up an innocent bluff to a young girl he chances upon. His deception increases till they become disastrous for him, and for their relationship.
Asli Naqli (1962)
Directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Dev Anand, Sadhana Shivdasani, Mukri, Sandhya Roy, Leela Chitnis, Indira
Rating75%
Anand (Dev Anand) is a spoiled grandson of a rich businessman Rai Bahadur (played by Nazir Hussain). His grandfather wants him to marry Rekha (Sandhya Roy), only daughter and heiress of a rich man despite of Anand's disinterest for her. In the ensuring fight, Anand leaves his house to prove his worthiness and ends up in the streets of Bombay (present day Mumbai). There one person meets Anand and takes Anand to his house in poor neighborhood.
Sister Nivedita (1962)
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about religion
Actors Arundhati Devi, Shobha Sen, Haradhan Bandopadhyay
Rating59%
Nader Nimai (1960)
, 1h20Directed by Bimal Roy
Actors Chhabi Biswas, Shobha Sen, Jahar Ray, Tulsi Chakraborty
The Dawn (1956)
Directed by Mrinal Sen
Actors Uttam Kumar, Sabitri Chatterjee, Chhabi Biswas, Jahar Ray, Shobha Sen, Kali Banerjee
Rating56%
Sabar Uparey (1955)
Directed by Agradoot
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Uttam Kumar, Suchitra Sen, Chhabi Biswas, Kali Banerjee, Pahari Sanyal, Shobha Sen
Roles Shankar's mother
Rating75%
Prashanta Chatterjee (Chhabi Biswas) is sentenced to life imprisonment after the alleged murder of Hemangini, a lady based in Krishnanagar whom he is accused of loving and then dumping and murdering heinously.
The Uprooted (1950)
, 1h57Directed by Nemai Ghosh
Genres Drama
Actors Ritwik Ghatak, Bijon bhattacharya, Shobha Sen
Rating76%
The film is based on a story of Swarnakamal Bhattacharya. Depicting the physical pain and crisis, the film is about the partition of Bengal and the flow of refugees from East Pakistan (present Bangladesh) into India. The story of the film begins in a village of East Bengal where people (Hindus and Muslims) leave peacefully. Govinda and Sumati are husband wife and they are about to have a child. But, the partition forces Hindu people to leave their ancestral village. So, they become refugee. They don't find any location or shelter in Calcutta and eke out their daily lives in temporary shelters in and around Sealdah railway station. Along with millions of refugees the family has to face untold misery in big city.
