Sumita Devi

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Sumita Devi
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Born
Hena Bhattacharya

(1936-02-02)2 February 1936
Died6 January 2004(2004-01-06) (aged 67)
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Other namesNilufar Begum
Occupation(s)Actress, filmmaker
Spouses
  • Amulya Lahiri
(m. 1962;div. 1968)

Sumita Devi, was a Bangladeshi actress. [1] In 45 years of her career, she acted in around 200 films and 150 radio and television dramas. [2] She was an artist at the Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra in 1971. [3]

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Early life and career

Devi was born in Manikganj District in the then Bengal Presidency. [1] She moved with her parents, first to Dhaka in 1944, then to Calcutta in 1951. [4] She debuted her acting in the film Asiya (1960). [1] She was the first actress of the then East Pakistan to act in the film Dhupchhaya produced in West Pakistan. [2] Later she produced five films. [1]

Works

Actress
Producer

Personal life and death

Devi's first marriage to Amulya Lahiri was short. [1] Later she married filmmaker Zahir Raihan in 1962. Upon marriage she converted to Islam and took the name Nilufar Begum. With Raihan, she had two sons, Anal and Bipul. [8] [9] She had another son and a daughter. [3] After the disappearance of Raihan in 1972, the government allotted an abandoned house on 7.5 kathas in Mohammadpur Thana to Devi. [8]

Devi died from a brain haemorrhage on 6 January 2004 at Bangladesh Medical Hospital in Dhaka. Both her kidneys and liver had been malfunctioning before she was admitted to the hospital. She had been in a coma since her treatment began. [2]

Awards

Devi in the film Kancher Deyal (1963) Kancher Deyal.jpg
Devi in the film Kancher Deyal (1963)

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