Rituparna Sengupta

Rituparna Sengupta (Ritupôrna Shengupta; born 7 November 1971) is an Indian film actress and producer who is known for her work in Bengali, Hindi and Bangladeshi films. Having garnered the National Film Award in 1998 for her work in Dahan, she is known for portraying very bold and sensuous characters.

Early life

Rituparna was interested in the arts since a young age and learned painting, dancing, singing and handicrafts at a painting school, called Chitrangshu. She studied at Mount Carmel school, and later graduated in History from Lady Brabourne College. She began studying Modern History for an M.A. at University of Calcutta, but had to interrupt studies to concentrate on her career as an actress.

Her first film was Shwet Patharer Thala with Aparna Sen who played her mother-in-law. in Her Hindi debut was N N Sippy's Teesra Kaun directed by Parto Ghosh.Hema Malini picked her for a negative supporting role in Zee's home-production Mohini, starring Madhu and Sudesh Berry. In 2013, she will be making her Malayalam debut with Sohanlal's Kadhaveedu.

Sengupta

Sengupta is a surname found among Bengali people of India and Bangladesh. They belong to the Baidya caste.

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Rituparna

Rituparna (IAST): Rituparṇa (Hindi: ऋतुपर्ण) was a king of Ayodhya, and son of Sarvakama, into whose service king Nala entered after he had lost his kingdom. Rituparna was a master mathematician and profoundly skilled in dice Kali (Demon). Nala, as Bahuk (one with a hump) became a minister and later the charioteer in King Rituparna's court on the advice of the King of Snakes (Nagas) to learn from him the skills of dice.

According to the story of Nala-Damayanti of Mahabharata, after the disappearance of King Nala, his queen, Damayanti and her father's (the father-in-law of King Nala, the king of Vidarbha Kingdom) courtiers sent out a search party to find him. One of the courtiers reported a person "resembling in behaviour, but not in features" with Nala in King Rituparna's court in Ayodhya. To test this fact it was proclaimed that Queen Damayanti (known for her beauty) had assented to remarry, and consequently an invitation to a swayamvara for the same was sent to Rituparna's court too. However the swayamvara (a ritual wherein a princess bride chooses her own suitor for marriage from among a group of suitors), was scheduled for the very next day, and the distance to her father's kingdom from Ayodhya could not be covered in a night. For this Nala as Bahuk offered to transport King Rituparna to Damayanti's kingdom. As Nala was the best charioteer Nala he was sure to reach Damayanti's father's palace in time for the swayamvara. On the way King Rituparna asked Nala or Bahuk, as he was known to him, for the secrets and techniques of fast chariot driving. Nala agreed but in return for which he asked the knowledge and techniques of dice playing, in which Rituparna was the master. Thus on a mutual acceptance, within a night's journey Rituparna taught Dice-playing to Nala and Nala taught him chariot driving skills.

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Rachana Banerjee

Rachna Banerjee is an Indian Bengali actress in the Calcutta-based Bengali cinema at Tollywood. She was 1994 Miss Kolkata. She has won five beauty contests in India. She won Miss Beautiful Smile at the Miss India contest. She has also worked in some South Indian films.

She was born in Calcutta, West Bengal, India. Rachna has appeared in 35 Bengali movies with Prosenjit Chatterjee. She has also done several Odia movies, many with Siddhanta Mahapatra. She was also in the Hindi movie Sooryabansham with Amitabh Bachchan. Some of her South Indian co-actors are Upendra and Chiranjivee.

Personal life

She is the only one child of her parents. Her original name is Jhumjhum Banerjee. She won the Miss Calcutta contest in 1994. She won many beauty contest before her acting career. Director Sukhen Das renamed her in her debut movie, Daan Protidan (1994). Banerjee married Siddhanta Mahapatra at Cuttack in 2004, but later they divorced and she left the Odia Film Industry. Currently she is married to Probal Basu and has a son, named Pronil Basu.