National Award winning actress and glamour queen of Bengal, Rituparna Sengupata has bagged two more of her prestigious project in Bollywood. She has signed a mega film opposite Punjab da puttar Sunny Deol in Ashwin Choudhery’s ‘Gurudakshina’.

Rituparna has also signed a film with Kalpana Lazmi where she plays the role of a queen, whilst Isha Koppikar plays the role of a courtesan in a woman centric film. Incidentally item girl Masumi Udeshi also has a role in Lajmi’s film for which she has reportedly done two backless scenes. 

Talking about Rituparna, well let’s tell you more about Sengupta in her own words:

People: My Grandmother & Subhash Chandra Bose.

Actors (International): Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise & Gregory Peck

Actors (Indian): Amitabh Bachchan, Uttam Kumar, Naseeruddin Shah, Aamir Khan

Actresses (International): Julia Roberts, Winona Ryder, Audrey Hepburn.

Actresses (Indian): Rekha, Shabana Azmi, Suchitra Sen, Supriya Debi

Directors (International): Akiro Kurosawa, Alfred Hitchcock

Directors (Indian): Gulzar, Satyajit Ray, Kundan Shah, Ritwik Ghatak.

Movies (International): The Sound Of Music, The Last Emperor, Operation Daybreak.

Movies (Indian): Masoom, Umrao Jaan, Ijaazat

Books: The short stories of Guy De Maupassant & O’Henry, Birds

Authors: Daphne Du Maurier, Margaret Mitchell, Jeffrey Archer, Sunil Ganguli

Sports: Badminton

Sportspeople: Ravi Shastri, Leander Paes, Saurav Ganguli

Politicians: None

Clothes: Saree, Jeans

Colours: Red, Black, Yellow

Food: Continental

Snacks: Fried Fish with Tartar Sauce

Her columns used to appear in Anandalok. She used to write for Bangladesher Hriday . Speaking about her writings, she says, “I wrote more often when I was younger but now my writing has become more sporadic. Most of my writing, both in Bengali and English is very personal and has not been published.”

Rituparna on Theatre:

People from a theatre background normally have a lot of mature acting experience and skills. The stage is an incredible training ground and it is the best medium when it comes to communicating with an audience. It is fulfilling for an actor to be on stage because you get an instant response from the audience. It teaches you how to be spontaneous, stage free, makes you comfortable with the lights and on the whole makes you technically very sound and gives you the inherent confidence to look up to something better.

On Rituparno Ghosh:

Meeting him changed the entire flow of my career. It took me to a place where I had never seen myself before. Up till this time, I had always been seen as a very glamourous actress, but now, people started taking my performance skills very seriously. Rituparno Ghosh changed my image so drastically. He totally deglamourised me in ‘Dahan’. The film was very difficult and challenging. Another film that brought out my acting skills to the fullest was ‘Paromitar Ek Din’. Mrinal Sen complemented me by saying that my performance was very balanced.

Important year, 1998:

42nd National Film Festival of India Award for Best Actress (film-Dahan), conferred by His Excellency The Honorable President of India R.K. Narayanan and Sushma Swaraj.