Top 10 Best Movies of Debashree Roy

Debashree Roy is an Indian actress, dancer, choreographer, politician and animal rights activist.  As an actress, she is known for her work in Hindi and Bengali cinema. After the death of Mahua Roychowdhury, she became queen of Bengali commercial cinema. Debashree has won over forty awards, including a National Award, three BFJA Awards, five Kalakar Awards and an Anandalok Award.

Among the best films of Debashree Roy, top 10 best movies are as follows.

Unishe April (1994)

 Directed by Rituparno Ghosh. Aparna Sen, Debashree Roy, Dipankar Dey, Chitra Sen were main characters in the film which potrays a sentimental mother daughter relation. Debashree is the daughter and Aparna Sen played the role of mother.

Bhalobasa Bhalobasa (1985)

Bhalobasa Bhalobasa is a 1985 Bengali romantic film directed by Tarun Majumdar. The film stars Tapas Paul and Debashree Roy.

Asukh (1999)

 Directed by Rituparno Ghosh. With Soumitra Chatterjee, Debashree Roy, Arpita Chatterjee, Gouri Ghosh.

This National Award winning film (Best Feature Film in Bengali) follows two parallel narratives. The present portrays Rohini (brilliantly essayed out by Debashree Roy), a renowned actress who is an emotionally vulnerable and addicted to sleeping pills. She is trying to cope with her mother’s illness but ends up forming a subtle schism with her father (Soumitra Chatterjee). Flashbacks, on the other hand, highlight the slow disintegration relationship with her fiancé as he gets involved with a younger upcoming actress, which ends up clarifying her present vulnerability. 

Troyee (1982)

Troyee is a 1982 Bengali romantic drama film written and directed by Gautam Mukherjee. The screenplay was written by Parthapratim Choudhury.

Stars: Mithun Chakraborty, Debashree Roy, Soumitra Bannerjee

This was a commercially hit movie.

36 Chowringhee Lane (1981)

36 Chowringhee Lane is a 1981 film written and directed by Aparna Sen and produced by Shashi Kapoor. It marked the directorial debut of Sen, who had until then been known as a leading actress of Bengali cinema. The film was very well received upon release. It stars Jennifer Kendal in a critically acclaimed role, along with Dhritiman Chatterjee and Debashree Roy.

36 Chowringhee Lane is one of a handful of Indian films portraying the life and culture of a fast-dwindling minority community, the Anglo-Indians, in India.

Dekha (2001)

Dekha was released on 2001 Bengali film starring Anjan Dutta, Soumitra Chatterjee, Debasree Roy, Indrani Halder, Rupa Ganguly, Biplab Chatterjee, Suman Deb, Haradhan Banerjee, Kamal Kanjilal. The Bengali film is directed by Goutam Ghose. Abhijeet Bose scored the music in the film.

The film revolves around an aging poet Sashi Bhusan Sanyal afflicted with glaucoma and nearly blind whose wife has deserted him because of his reckless lifestyle.

Lathi (1996)

Lathi is a 1996 Bengali family drama film directed by Prabhat Roy. The Film stars Victor Banerjee as the protagonist. It also stars Soumitra Chatterjee, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Debashree Roy, Satabdi Roy, Haradhan Bandopadhyay, Abhishek Chatterjee, Pallavi Chatterjee, Rituparna Sengupta, Deepankar De, Tota Roy Chowdhury, Sabyasachi Chakrabarty and Kaushik Sen. The music of the film has been composed by Bappi Lahiri.

Plot of the film revolves around Atindranath Bannerjee, a retired teacher, faces harassment from his family members and decides to discipline them.

Dadar Kirti (1980)

Dadar Kirti is a 1980 Bengali romantic drama film directed by Tarun Majumdar. The film was based on an unpublished novel of the same name by Saradindu Bandopadhyay. It stars Tapas Paul, Mahua Roychowdhury, Ayan Banerjee, Debashree Roy, Sandhya Roy, Kali Banerjee, Ruma Guha Thakurta and Anup Kumar. Tapas Paul made his debut with this film.

The film attained a huge box office success upon its release and still has a popular following.

Although the film is famous for excellent performance by Mahua and Tapas Paul, Debashree Roy is also  remembered for her cute performance of Mahua's younger sister.

Thikana (1991)

Directed by Inder Sen. With Arjun Chakraborty, Dipankar Dey, Debashree Roy, Moon Moon Sen.

Debashree Roy was conferred with BFJA Award for Best Actress (1992) for the first time for her performance in Indar Sen's Bengali film Thikana.

Teesta (2005)

Director : Bratya Bose

Cast       : Debasree Roy, Chandreye Ghosh, Badha Moitra, Pijush Ganguly and others.

The film is based on the relationship between a woman and a man, and about miscommunication. 

Cocooned in the hilly wrap of Kalimpong, divorcee schoolteacher Teesta (Debasree Roy) feels she can't communicate with people any more. She speaks to the mountains instead, and even when a much younger man (Badshah Moitra) tries to ignite her passion, she remains aloof. Her second marriage is on the rocks.

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Rose Valley scam and Top Tollywood actress

Rituparna Sengupta

Who is the top Tollywood Bengali films actress involved in Rose Valley scam? Is she linked with any political party? It is expected that very soon we will come to know about the actress.

Latest hot news in Rose Valley scam and Tollywood is that a top Tollywood actress had allegedly enabled transactions worth Rs 350 crore from a Singapore-based firm through Hawala channels for Rose Valley.

It is said that the actress went with prime accused and Rose Valley owner Gautam Kundu on several foreign trips and enabled him to buy and sell several Bengali films. The actress will soon be summoned by the CBI for interrogation.

A source said “Movements of the actress were closely monitored for the past three years. All the evidences proving her involvement in the scam were carefully knit together to make the case fool-proof, considering the mass following and political clout of the actress.”

Tollywood actresses like Sandhya Roy, Shatabdi Roy are Trinamool Congress MPs and Debashree Roy is Trinamool Congress MLA. 

Another top Bengali actress is Rituparna Sengupta, although she is not directly involved in politics but she has a connection with Singapore. Rituparna Sengupta's husband, Sanjay Chakraborty resides in Singapore. It is heard that CBI will summon one top Bengali Tollywood actress in connection with Rose Valley scam and rumour is that the actress's husband resides in Singapore. Sources close to the CBI revealed that  the actress enabled transactions worth 350 crore from a Singapore-based firm through hawala channels for Rose Valley. As soon as the actress got the news that CBI is getting ready to summon her, she is planning to leave India. CBI has taken the appropriate steps so that Visa is not granted to the actress. CBI has informed all the airports in the country with the passport number of the actress so that the actress can not leave the country.

Latest update is that CBI is keeping close watch on three Tollywood actresses related to Rose Valley scam. One is a top Bengali actress with Singapore link, the second actress is also a popular actress of Bengali films. The second actress has worked mainly in second lead roles in films and the third actress works both in Tollywood and Bollywood. It is also said that the third actress has recently joined a political party.

Another Bengali actress is expected to be linked with Rose Valley scam. The actress is known for acting in bold scenes in both Bengali and Bollywood films. The unmarried actress is supposed to tie the knot this year and her would be husband resides in other state.

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Bengali film 10th July – story and cast & crew of the movie

Bengali film 10th July is based on the issue of homosexuality.

Story of the Bengali film 10^th July

In the film 10^th July there are a gay couple and a lesbian couple. Gay couple is played by Chiranjeet and Abhrajit while Rupa Bhattacharya and Kanchana Maitra are lesbian couple in the film.

Rupa and Kanchana in 10th July

Cast and Crew of the film 10^th July

Cast

Rituparna SenGupta

Chiranjit Chakraborty
Rupa Bhattacharya
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Kanchana Maitra
Debashree Roy 

Crew

Director of 10^th July: Ratul Ganguly

Producer of 10^th July: T.S.K Films

Music directorof 10^th July: Debjit Roy

Lyrics by: Sumit Sammadar, Anindya Bose and Basudev Ghosh

Singers in film 10^th July: Usha Uthup, Anwesha, Debasmita, Debasree Roy, Babul Supriyo, Sourav Das, Debjani Sarkar, Shabnam and Subhasish

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Divorce and Bengali film actresses

Divorce is very common in case of Bengali film actresses. Many actresses whose life style is so sober and there is no information of any kind of extra maritial relationship between the actress and somebody else, still divorce happens in Tollywood.

Mahua Roychowdhury as seen by Tarun Majumdar: CLICK

Sandhya Roy is a mother like figure in Bengali film industry. The lady with a god gifted beauty was married to filmmaker Tarun Majumdar. Tarun Majumdar, popular as Tanu babu in his own circle is an eminent film director. Tarun Majumder and Sandhya Roy are not husband wife now.

Debashree Roy is in the glamour world from her childhood. Debashree Roy was married to her long time boyfriend Prosenjit Chatterjee in year 1992. At that time they were considered as made for each other celebrity couple but their married life ended with divorce in year 1995. After the divorce, Prosenjit married Aparna Guhathakurta in 1997 and they took divorce on 2002 and the third marriage of Prosenjit is with Arpita Pal in 2002. Debashree Roy is still single.

Bengali actress - then and now

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The latest addition is the divorce of young Bengali actress Srabanti Chatterjee. Srabanti’s lawyer has send divorce letter to Rajib Biswas – Srabanti’s director husband. Srabanti and Rajib have a son of nine years old who is staying with his mother.

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Story cast and crew of Bengali film Antare Bahire

Director Somnath Sen is busy with his upcoming Bengali film Antare Bahire. This is a family drama film which revolved around mainly three characters – Dipta, Ridhdhi and Khushi. 

Story of the film Antare Bahire

Dipta and Ridhdhi are husband wife. Dipta and Ridhdhi used to date each other before marriage and their marriage is a love marriage. Both Dipta and Ridhdhi works in corporate house. Married life of Dipta and Ridhdhi is not happy and both follows their own lifestyle. Dipta and Ridhdhi are thinking about divorce.

In the meantime Dipta gets involved with Shruti - his another office staff. Ridhdhi gets

involved with her office boss Arjun. At this point Khushi entered in the life of Dipta and Ridhdhi to repairs the damage in married life of Ridhdhi and Dipta.

Cast and crew of Bengali film Antare Bahire

Cast

Dipta: Aviraj

Ridhdhi: Mouboni Sorcar

Khushi: Debasree Roy

Jack

Chitragana Chakraborty

Biplab Chatterjee

Crew

Singers: Nachiketa Chakraborty

Shubhamita

Rupankar

Raghab Chottopadhyay

Director, Story and Lyrics: Somnath Sen

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Bengali film actress Debashree Roy – her filmy career and brief profile

Want to know about Debashree Roy? In this article you will find filmy career of Debashree Roy, brief profile and personal life of the Bengali actress.

 After the pre matured death of Mahua Roy Choudhury, Debashree Roy was the top leading actress in Bengal film industry in 1980’s. Debashree Roy is a performer from very early age. She and her sister used to perform at stage where she was a mere child. In Bengali films, she started her journey with super hit romantic love film Dadar Kirti, directed by eminent director Tarun Majumdar.

Brief profile of Debashree Roy

Date of Birth: 13 June 1964

Occupation: Acting, mainly in Bengali films. She has acted in English, Hindi and Tamil films also.

She was married to Bengali super star Prosenjit for a brief period.

Film career of Debashree Roy

Debashree Roy appeared before the camera at the age of 4 years in the film ‘Kuheli’. Debashree Roy was a known name in Bengal from her childhood. She used to perform on stage when she was a child. Debashree Roy and her sister formed a popular duo performing filmy dances in shows in towns and villages of West Bengal Afterwards

Debashree Roy entered film industry as an actress and so far has acted in more than 100 films. In the early days of her filmy career, she worked mainly on romantic commercial films but afterwards moved to parallel films. Debashree Roy is a successful actress in both form of films.

She acted as Satyavati in Indian epic Mahabharata, the mega serial of television.

Debashree and Prosenjit duo has worked in nearly 25 Bengali films and most of the films are box office hit. Recntly Prosenjit admitted in an interview that, among the female actress with whom Prosenjit has worked so far, as an actress Debashree is the best. Debashree and Tapas Pal duo has also presented many hit Bengali films. So far Debashree Roy is a successful heroine in Bengali films. In future we can expect her success in supporting roles also.

Debashree Roy is a Trinamool Congress candidate from Raidighi constituency in West Bengal assembly elections 2011.

Some of the hit films of Debashree Roy

2011: Jibon Rang Berang

2002: Abaidha

2002: Antarghaat

2001: Dekha

2000: Ek Je Aachhe Kanya

1999: Asukh

1994: Unishe April

1989: Aparanher Alo

1985: Prarthana

1985: Bhalobasha Bhalobasha

1985: Nishan

1984: Sagar Balaka

1983: Nishi Bhot

1983: Parabat Priya

1981: 36 Chowringhee Lane

1980: Dadar Kirti

Awards for Debashree Roy

She received the National Award for the best actress in 1995 for Unishe April

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