Suchitra Sen: No More R I P

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 Celebrities mourn death of the legendary actress

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Popular names from filmdom, including Amitabh Bachchan, Sridevi, Bipasha Basu, Shoojit Sircar and Madhur Bhandarkar took to Twitter to condole the death of Bengali cinema legend suchithra sen died  who died at a Kolkata nursing home early Friday following a massive cardiac arrest. Sen was 82-years-old. In her three-decade-long career she had created magic on the big screen with 52 Bengali films and seven Hindi movies, which included classics like "Devdas" and "Aandhi". Here's what the celebrities had to say:

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Amitabh Bachchan: Suchitra Sen - beauty, talent, enigmatic - she adorned film world of Bengal with exquisite performances, graced Hindi films too! 

 

Sridevi: Actor par excellence, a divine beauty, a legend, an icon who will inspire generations to come. RIP Suchitra Sen. 

 

 

Madhuri Dixit: RIP Suchitra Sen. Indian cinema will miss you. 

 

Madhur Bhandarkar: Suchitra Sen will always be remembered for her remarkable performances in 'Devdas', 'Aandhi', 'Mamta' and immense contribution to Bengali cinema. RIP. 

 

Shoojit Sircar: RIP Suchitra Sen. Real inspiration...how to detach yourself from the stardom and film world ... spiritual power. 

 

Bipasha Basu: RIP Suchitra Sen! Real beauty. Strength to the family. 

 

Onir: Suchitra Sen epitomises the title of one of her films 'Deep Jwele Jaai'. Remember her in the haunting song 'Aai raat tomar amar'. My mother looks so devastated with the news of the demise of Suchitra Sen. I can see in her how a generation loved her. 

 

Aanand L. Rai: RIP Suchitra Sen. 

 

Manoj Bajpayee: RIP Suchitra Sen! There is so much to learn from your life and your work! You will be missed. 

 

Goldie Behl: Tere bina zindagi se koyi shikwa to nahi. RIP Suchitra Sen. 

 

Rohit Roy: A legend leaves us. My all time favourite actress. Suchitra Sen RIP. 

 

Shweta Pandit: Another beauty par excellence and Mahanayika leaves us! RIP Suchitra Sen.

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Actress Suchitra Sen cremated, given gun salute

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Whether refusing filmmaker Raj Kapoor's offer of a movie or her glamorous off-screen lifestyle - she once playfully tore off actor Soumitra Chatterjee's vest at a party - Bengali screen icon Suchitra Sen, who died Friday, made heads turn with her moves and stunned her contemporaries.

 

Filmmaker Aparna Sen recalled how, at a party, Sen had playfully mimicked a scene from "Saat Paakhe Bandha" - the film that fetched her the Silver Prize for best actress at the 1963 Moscow International Film Festival, the first international recognition for a Bengali actress

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Asit Chowdhury had thrown a party after she won the award. Sharmila Tagore and me, we were very young then and we saw how she, very playfully, re-enacted the scene from the film where she tears (lead actor) Soumitra Chatterjee's vest...all in the middle of the starry gathering. We had never seen something like this."

 

Sen died Friday of cardiac arrest at a city nursing home here.

 

Her refusal to act in a film by Raj Kapoor under the R.K. banner made headlines.

 

It is said that Sen was put off as Kapoor knelt down on the floor with a bouquet in his hand and made her the offer.

 

"Why should a man bow down like this," she reportedly asked her close circle.

 

Moreover, films were made to cast her in a role that would do justice to her established talent.

 

Lyricist Gulzar, who had directed Sen in "Aandhi", once said: "(Producer) J. Om Prakash had wanted to cast Suchitra with Sanjeev (Kapoor) in a film but I didn't like the story. I said you can't ask her to come all the way from Calcutta to Bombay for a detective film like that."

 

 

READ: 5 interesting facts about Suchitra Sen

 

 

And then Gulzar made "Aandhi" with the two.

 

Contrary to the teary-eyed protagonists she essayed on screen, off it she was the life of the party - till she became a recluse three decades ago.

 

Her daughter and actress Moon Moon Sen reminisced in an interview about her party-hopping days. "Guests were dropping by and my parents were always late catching a flight. Those days my mother was very glamorous and dressed for the evenings in black lace and red feathers."

 

However, post her husband's death in 1970, she chose to be absent from the social scene and retired from the industry in 1978.

 

 

READ: Suchitra Sen's most memorable films

 

 

"She wanted fans to remember her youthful looks. And she did not want to portray mothers and aunts on screen," her biographer Gopal Krishna Roy told IANS.

 

Late actor Dev Anand, with whom Sen had shared the screen in "Bambai Ka Babu" (1961), had attempted to get in touch with her during a Kolkata visit. However he was discouraged.

 

"I did try to meet her...but people discouraged me saying 'She doesn't meet anyone', and after a while I gave up," the actor had said in an interview.

 

Sen's other pre-occupations included spending time with granddaughters Raima and Riya- who have carried the legacy forward.

 

The older of the two, Raima is often compared to her grandmother.

 

"Yeah! May be, because I look like Suchitra Sen (smiles). And hence, they expect me to catch up with her acting stature sometime in future," Raima has said in the past.

 

"No, she does not in any way give inputs or interfere in our career. But yes, she has seen Rituparno Ghosh's 'Nauka Dubi', where both of us acted (Raima and Riya) and told us- 'I am proud of both of you'."

 

Moon Moon maintains that she can't see the three Sen actresses "living up to the legend that she created".

 

Fans who usually longed for a glimpse of the actress, had once raised their voices against a local TV channel which was about to air some snaps of Sen while she was hospitalised in 2007. It was clear they respected her desire for privacy.

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"I can't give you a kiss so easily," actress Suchitra Sen, who died Friday, once told her biographer Gopal Krishna Roy, leaving him momentarily stunned.

But the "kiss" that the iconic actress spoke of, was not in a literal sense.

Roy, then a reporter with UNI, had approached Sen with a questionnaire on the issue of the kiss in Indian films, which had become a raging debate in the late 1970s.

"The issue was whether it was right to have kissing scenes in Indian films or not. The matter was fiercely debated in parliament also. So, I prepared a set of questions, and sent it to filmmakers like Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen and actors Uttam Kumar and Soumitra Chatterjee. I had given a set to Suchitra also.

 

 

"Everybody responded, but Sen. When I called her up after a few days, she said, 'I can't give you a kiss so easily'. I understood she won't reply. So I told her I will do the story without her answers. And I went ahead," Roy told IANS.

But the incident was a boon for Ray, as it started his long friendship with the most popular actress in Bengali films. The relationship continued even after Sen withdrew from public life, confining herself to a close circles of family members and a handful of friends.

"During the last three and half decades, very few people could meet her. There was a director, Dilip Mukherjee who often called on her. Mrinal Sen visited her once. But her doors were closed to most people," said Roy, now 80.

But she became very fond of Roy.

"She used to call me every day. She insisted I accompany her on her evening strolls that started from near her residence in Ballygunge Circular Road. I used to tell her "People will recognise you."

"But she said: "Are, let us go na?"

One evening, a gentleman did recognise Sen and sought her autograph.

"But he was carrying neither a paper, nor a pen. Suchitra took my pen. Then she picked up an empty cigarette packet and signed on it and returned it to the gentleman."

Sen was moody, and had her star-like whims aplenty.

"Till a few years back, she used to drop in often to the local tailor shop. She would spent hours there, chatting with the tailor and asking him about his family," recalled Roy.

On another Sunday morning, Roy received an "sos" from the actress to come to her residence.

"When I reached, she told me, "I badly need to check my weight right now. Let's go".

"We drove out. But the weight machine at a nursing home close to her residence was out of order. She then insisted that we go to Gariahat area about three kms away. But there the shops were closed. However, Suchitra said she won't return home without checking her weight. Finally, we travelled eight kms to near the Grand Hotel in Central Kolkata, where she finally found a weight machine," said Roy.

Sen then asked for 50 paise from Roy. "The job done, she was happy, and lost her interest in the outing. We immediately returned home."

On another occasion, Sen asked Roy to accompany her to Lover's Lane. "I told her I didn't know the place. She replied impishly: "What sort of a journalist are you, that you don't know where Lovers'Lane is?"

"When I went there, I saw her sitting happily with her two granddaughters Riya and Raima, her face covered with a veil. She was munching on ground nuts," he said.

Sen was a regular visitor to Roy's house, and would spent hours chatting with his mother in "Bangal" (East Bengal dialect). "She was also fond of my mother's culinary skills".

Roy felt that the magic of Sen lay in her beautiful smile.

"And you know, she never needed glycerine to cry on screen. Whenever she had to give such a shot, she would ask for a minute, close her eyes, and immediately tears used to flow."

Roy wrote two books on the actress.

"Suchitrar Katha" came out in 1998. It is now into its 12th edition, a testament to Sen's unsagging popularity and the fans' interest in the enigma.

The other book "Anya Ek Suchitra" was finished five years back.

 

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She was hospitalized kada for sometime now ?
Rip

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She was hospitalized kada for sometime now ?
Rip

yep 

and finally her soul rested shea was 82

her daughte is moon moon swn and gradn daughters also acted in telugu

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