Kalakar Award for Best Actress

The Kalakar Award for Best Actress is an award, presented annually at the Kalakar Awards. It is given by the Kalakar Parivar Foundation for Bengali films. The award was first given in 1993. ^{[1] [2]}

Kalakar Award for Best Actress
Rukmini Maitra, the last winner
Awarded for	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in Bengali films
Country	India
Presented by	Kalakar Parivar Foundation
First award	1993
Final award	2020
Currently held by	Rukmini Maitra for Password

Superlatives

• Debashree Roy is the first recipient of this award,along with Indrani Haldar, they both became joint winners. Debashree Roy has won it four times. She won the award consecutively for two years twice (1993, 1994) & (2002, 2003).
• Rituparna Sengupta is the most awarded recipient, with 10 wins, and has won the award consecutively for 5 years (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 & 2010). Additionally, she is the only actress to win both Best Actress & Best Supporting Actress.
• Satabdi Roy is the third most awarded actress, with 3 wins.
• Subhashree Ganguly won the award twice consecutively in 2014 and 2015. She also received the Kalakar Award for Best Rising Actress in 2014 for the film Boss: Born to Rule (2013).
• Churni Ganguly is the only actress awarded for her performance in her debut film, Waarish... (2004).
• Raveena Tandon is notably the only Bollywood actress to have won this award.

Multiple winners

• 10 wins: Rituparna Sengupta
• 4 wins: Debashree Roy
• 3 wins: Satabdi Roy
• 2 wins: Subhashree Ganguly

Winners

Rituparna Sengupta, Most awarded recipient.

Satabdi Roy has won the award four times.

Raveena Tandon won the award for her debut Bengali film Laboratory (2010)

List of winners and nominated work
Year	Recipient(s)	Role(s)	Film(s)	Reference(s)
1993 (1st) & (2nd)	Indrani Haldar	–	Tapashya	[2] [3]
	Debashree Roy		Prem
1994 (3rd)			Sandhyatara
1996 (4th)	Satabdi Roy	Mamata	Sansaar Sangram
1997 (5th)	Rituparna Sengupta	Celina Choudhury	Abujh Mon
1998 (6th)	Roopa Ganguly	Anasuya (Anu)	Yugant
1999 (7th)	Satabdi Roy	Sundari	Raja Rani Badsha
2000 (8th)	Rituparna Sengupta	Payel Choudhury	Moner Manush
2001 (9th)		Roopa Ray	Sasurbari Zindabad
2002 (10th)	Debashree Roy	Sarama	Dekha
2003 (11th)		Kusum/K. Nandy	Silpantar
2004 † (12th)	Rachna Banerjee	Saathi	Sabuj Saathi
	Rituparna Sengupta	Rajani Daasi	Mondo Meyer Upakhyan
2005 † (13th)	Churni Ganguly	Medha Chatterjee	Waarish...
	Satabdi Roy	Revati Bhattacharya	Debipaksha
2006 (14th)	Rituparna Sengupta	–	Dwitiya Basanta
2007 (15th)		Anuradha	Byatikrami
2008 (16th)		Nandita Chatterjee	Anuranan
2009 † (17th)		Brishti/Tilottama	Mon Amour: Shesher Kobita Revisited
	Sreelekha Mitra	Krishnakali Chatterjee	Tolly Lights
2010 † (18th)	Rituparna Sengupta	Malini/Debi	Aainaate
	Swastika Mukherjee	Koel	Brake Fail
2011 (19th)	Raveena Tandon	Sohini	Laboratory
2012 (20th)	Konkona Sen Sharma	Mrinalini Mitra	Iti Mrinalini
2014 (22nd)	Subhashree Ganguly	Bhoomi	Khoka 420	[3]
2015 (23rd)		Bhumika Pratap Chaudhury	Ami Shudhu Cheyechi Tomay	[4]
2016 (24th)	Payel Sarkar	Ria Banerjee	Jomer Raja Dilo Bor	[5] [3]
2017 (25th)	Srabanti Chatterjee	Riya/Chutki	Shikari	[6]
2018 (26th)	Rituparna Sengupta	Runu Biswas	Baranda
2019 (27th)	Priyanka Sarkar	Roopa	Crisscross
2020 (28th)	Rukmini Maitra	Nisha Chatterjee	Password	[7]

References

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4. "Kalakar award honours Tollywood stars, mainstream film". The Business Standard . 16 January 2015. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
5. "Indian Actress Payel Sarkar won 24th KALAKAR "BEST ACTRESS " AWARD 2016 For Jomer Raja Dilo Bor Film !!". Kalakar Parivar Foundation. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
6. "Shakib Khan's 'Shikari' awarded Best Film". The Asian Age . 25 January 2017. Archived from the original on 4 December 2022. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
7. "নুসরতের মুকুটে নতুন পালক, কলাকার অ্যাওয়ার্ডে ভূষিত অভিনেত্রী" [A New Feather in Nusrat's Hat, Honoured with the Kalakar Award]. Sangbad Pratidin . 6 January 2020. Archived from the original on 19 February 2020. Retrieved 26 November 2024.