Satabdi Roy

Satabdi Roy (listen )(born 5 October 1969) is an Indian actress, film director and politician. As an actress she is known for her work in Bengali cinema.[2] She is the recipient of BFJA Awards for two times.[3] As an actress, she ruled the array of commercial Bengali cinema during the late 1980s and 1990s.[4][5] As a director, she has been denounced critically for her use of superfluous themes. She is a Trinamool Congress Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha since 2009.

Satabdi Roy
Satabdi Roy
Born	5 October 1969 Agarpara, West Bengal, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Actress, director politician
Years active	1986–present
Works	Full list
Awards	BFJA Awards
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office 22 May 2009
Preceded by	Ram Chandra Dome
Constituency	Birbhum
Personal details
Political party	All India Trinamool Congress
Spouse(s)	Mriganko Banerjee ​ (m. 2001)​
Children	2
Residence	Kolkata
Reference[1]

Roy made her film debut opposite Prosenjit Chatterjee in Tapan Sinha's much acclaimed Bengali film Atanka (1986), which won her the BFJA Awards for the Best Supporting Actress in 1987.[3] She shot to stardom after she had been paired with Tapas Paul in films such as Amar Bandhan (1986), Guru Dakshina (1987), Antaranga (1988), Apan Amar Apan (1990) and Abishkar (1990) to name a few.[6] Her major hits with Prosenjit Chatterjee include Alingan (1990), Shraddhanjali (1993), Lathi (1996), Sakhi Tumi Kar (1996), Chandragrahan (1997), Ranokhetro (1998), Sajani Aamar Sohag (2000) and Trishul (2000) to name few. She made her Bollywood debut in National Award winning director Jyoti Sarup's Naya Zaher (1991). She collaborated with Tapan Sinha for the second time in his Antardhan (1992). She was conferred with the BFJA Awards for the Best Supporting Actress for the second time in 2005, for her performance in Raja Sen's Debipaksha.[3] During her heyday, she was often compared to her contemporaries, such as Debashree Roy and Rituparna Sengupta.[7] She made her directorial debut with Abhinetri (2006), which was an unequivocal reflection of the life and career of Bengali matinee idol Suchitra Sen.[8] The film turned out to be a commercial as well as critical failure.

Early life

She was born in Agarpara to Shailen and Nilima Roy.[9] Satabdi Roy passed her Madhyamik from Sorojini High School in 1986 and later attended Jogamaya Devi College, a women's college affiliated to the University of Calcutta.

Acting career

Debut and Breakthrough (1986 — 1989)

Roy made her film debut opposite Prosenjit Chatterjee in Tapan Sinha's much acclaimed Bengali film Atanka (1986), which earned her the BFJA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting role in 1987. Earlier, she had worked in a film called Tina, directed by Dinen Gupta, but it was never released. She rose to stardom after she acted opposite Tapas Paul in Tapan Saha's Amar Bandhan (1986).[10] In 1987, she had five releases including Hiren Nag's Pratibha, Prabhat Roy's Pratikar, Anjan Mukhopadhyay's Nyay Adhikar, Biresh Chatterjee's Ekanta Apan and Anjan Choudhry's Guru Dakshina, which became a massive grosser at box office. She was paired with Tapas Paul in this film. She reprised her chemistry with Paul in Dinen Gupta's Antaranga (1988) and Tarun Majumdar's Parashmani (1988). Both the films became massive grossers at box office.

Prime success (1990 — 2001)

The year 1990 saw Roy emerging out as a bankable film star with her two back-to-back commercial successes Apan Amar Apan by Tarun Majumdar and Abishkar by Salil Dutta. In both films, she played the role of an aspiring singer, but was noted more for her role in Abishkar, where she essayed a singer who set out in a quest of her kidnapped sister-in-law. She was also noted for her role in Tapan Saha's Alingan (1990). She went on to convey hits such as Nandan Dasgupta's Prem Pujari (1991), Deb Singha's Adhikar (1992), Guru Bagchi's Pennam Kolkata (1992), Prashanta Nanda's Ghar Sansar (1993), Lal Pan Bibi (1994), Srikanta Guhathakurta's Shraddhanjali (1993), Chiranjeet Chakraborty's Sansar Sangram (1995), Swapan Saha's Sakhi Tumi Kar (1996) and Anjan Banerjee's Chandragrahan (1997) to name a few. She made her Bollywood debut in National Award winning director Jyoti Sarup's Naya Zaher (1991).[11][12]

She hit the pinnacle of her professional rivalry with Rituparna Sengupta in the late 1990s since the two were offered most of the female leads opposite Prosenjit Chatterjee after Debashree Roy vowed not to work with Chatterjee any longer.[13] Still she managed to feature opposite Chatterjee in commercially successful Bengali films such as Lathi (1996), Sakhi Tumi Kar (1996), Bakul Priya (1997), Bidroho (1997), Chandragrahan (1997), Ranokhetro (1998), Swamir Aadesh (1998), Kalankini Badhu (2000), Sajoni Aamar Sohag (2000), Shapath Nilam (2000) and Trishul (2000).[14]

Setback (2003 — 2013)

Her post-marital career was not successful. Swapan Saha cast her alongside Tapas Pal, Abhishek Chatterjee and Rituparna Sengupta in his family drama Sukh Dukkher Sansar (2003).[15] The film was financial success.[16] She then accepted the role of an embittered widow in Raja Sen's social drama Debipaksha (2004).[17] Though a disaster at box office, the film fetched her another BFJA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting role in 2005.[18]

Further roles (2016—2018)

She was approached to play the lead in Teesta, a stage adaptation of Bratya Basu's play Mukhomukhi Bosibar.[19] Teesta was staged for the first time in January 2016. It was directed by Shekhar Samaddar and staged by Aabhash theatre group.[20]

On 23 April 2016 Roy at the conference of the film Bizli (2018), declared that she would portray the antagonist Dr. Jerina in the film.[21][22] Initially she was reluctant to play the role but finally gave her nod on Bobby's insistence.[21] Her performance in the film was received well by critics.[23]

Career as a filmmaker

In 2011, a member of Indian censor board informed the chief minister Mamata Banerjee that Maya Mukherjee, the protagonist in the film Paribartan directed by Roy was modelled on the chief minister. The film was later released in 2017.[24][25]

Roy cast Rituparna Sengupta opposite Tapas Paul in her directorial venture Om Shanti (2012). When interrogated whether the professional rivalry of the actresses duo would affect the shooting, Roy declined any such rivalry. She rather presumed that their collaboration would appeal the viewers.[26] She also cast Rakhi Sawant for an item number in the film. Sengupta skipped the premier show of the film as she felt that Sawant had been given preference to herself in the poster of the film while Roy said that Sengupta's grievance was baseless.[27] The film received negative review.[28] It was a major financial disaster.

Politics

She became the Member of Parliament, having won in the Lok Sabha election on a Trinamool Congress ticket from the Birbhum constituency of West Bengal in 2009.[29][30] She again won from the same constituency on a Trinamool Congress ticket in 2014 and 2019.

Personal life

When not working on a shoot, Roy would teach acting at the Satabdi Foundation or spend time with her son Samyoraj Banerjee (Tozo), daughter Samiyana Banerjee (Zumi) and husband Mrigank Banerjee, Executive manager of Satabdi Roy Foundation.[12]

Awards

Award	Year	Category	Film	Result	Ref.
BFJA Award	1987	Best Actress in a Supporting Role	Atanka	Won
	2005		Debipaksha	Won
Kalakar Awards	1996	Best Actress	Sansar Sangram	Won
	1999		Raja Rani Badsha	Won
	2005		Debipaksha	Won
	2013	Best Director	Om Shanti	Won	[31]
Bharat Nirman Awards	2001	Contribution in Film		Won

List of work

Hindi films

Year	Title	Director	Note	Ref.
1991	Naya Zaher	Jyoti Sarup
1993	Mulaquat	Ramanand Yadav		[32]
1999	Love Story 98	Inayat Shaikh		[33]

Bengali films

Year	Title	Director	Co-actor	Note	Ref.
1986	Amar Bandhan	Tapan Saha	Tapas Paul		[34]
	Atanka	Tapan Sinha	Prosenjit Chatterjee		[35]
	Bouma	Sujit Guha
1987	Ekanta Apan	Kalidindi Ran			[36]
	Gurudakshina	Anjan Choudhury			[37]
	Nyay Adhikar
	Pratibha
	Pratikar	Prabhat Roy			[38]
1988	Aghat
	Agnisanket
	Antaranga
	Chhannachhara
	Dena Paona
	Maa Ek Mandir
	Parashmoni	Tarun Majumdar			[39]
	Punarmilan	Jayanta Bose
	Shudhu Tomari	Prabir Mitra
1989	Aamar Shapath
	Agnitrishna
	Amanat
	Angar
	Biday
	Bondini
	Judge Saheb
	Mahapith Tarapith
	Mangaldeep
	Maryada
	Mone Mone
	Monimala
	Shatrupaksha	Nripen Saha			[40]
	Srimati Hangsaraj
1990	Abhimanyu
	Abishkar
	Alingan
	Anurag
	Apan Aamar Apan
	Bhanga-Gara
	Chetana
	Gharer Bou
	Jowar Bhanta	Dulal Bhowmik			[41]
	Kalanka
	Omar Akbar	Fazal Ahmed Benjir			[42]
	Raktareen	Sushil Mukherjee
1991	Aamar Sathi
	Bidhir Bidhan
	Maan Maryada
	Prem Pujari	Nandan Dasgupta			[43]
1992	Adhikar
	Antardhan
	Dharma-Yuddha
	Maa
	Monikanchan
	Natun Sansar
	Pennam Kolkata
	Shaitan
1993	Arjun
	Ghar Sansar
	Kanyadan
	Maan Samman
	Prajapati
	Prathama
	Premi
	Shakti
	Shraddhanjali
	Sukher Swarga
1994	Ajana Path
	Bidrohini
	Kalpurush
	Laal Paan Bibi	Prashanta Nanda	Chiranjeet Chakraborty
	Nagjyoti
	Phiriye Dao
	Tumi Je Aamar
1995	Abirbhab
	Boumoni
	Kumari Maa	Dulal Bhowmik			[44]
	Mashal
	Pratidhwani
	Sansar Sangram
	Shesh Pratiksha
	Sukher Asha	Sadhan			[45]
1996	East Bengaler Chele	Aloke Bhowmik		Delayed release	[46]
	Jamaibabu	Dulal Bhowmik
	Joy Bijoy	Shantanu Bhoumik
	Lathi	Prabhat Roy
	Sakhi Tumi Kar	Swapan Saha
	Tridhara	Prashanta Nanda
1997	Abhishapta Prem	Manoj Sen
	Ajker Santan	Haranath Chakraborty
	Bahurupa	Arabinda Mitra
	Bakul Priya	Swapan Saha
	Bidroho	Haranath Chakraborty
	Chandragrahan	Anjan Banerjee
	Mayar Badhon	Swapan Saha
	Pratirodh	Srinibas Chakraborty
	Sarbajaya	Sukanta Roy			[47]
1998	Aparajita	Joydeb Pariyal
	Asal Nakal	Anjan Chowdhury
	Jiban Trishna	Bidesh Sarkar
	Kamalar Banabas	Swapan Saha
	Putrabadhu	Pallab Ghosh
	Raja Rani Badsha	Haranath Chakraborty
	Ranokhetro	Haranath Chakraborty
	Shimul Parul	Swapan Saha
	Sreeman 420	Dulal Bhowmik
	Swamir Aadesh	Swapan Saha
1999	Gariber Raja Robinhood				[48]
	Gunda
	Jugbatar Loknath
	Krishna Kaberi
2000	Dabi
	Didi Aamar Maa
	Kalankini Badhu
	Pita Swarga Pita Dharma
	Rupasi Dohai Tomar
	Sajoni Aamar Sohag
	Satruta
	Shapath Nilam
	Trishul
2001	Aami Jibonpurer Pathik
	Bhalobasa Ki Aage Bujhini
	Bidhatar Khela
	Cancer
	Etai Swarga
	Janak Janani
	Nadir Pare Aamar Bari
	Shesh Bichar
	Srimoti Bhayonkari
2003	Chor O Bhagoban
	Debipuja
	Jua
	Sukh Dukkher Sansar	Swapan Saha			[15]
2004	Debipaksha	Raja Sen			[17]
2005	Dwiragaman
	Nishachar
2006	Abhinetri	Yes
2008	Biyer Lagna
	Shibaji
	Tolly Lights
2009	Dhaki	Yes
	Friend	Yes
2010	Bejanma
	Goodly	Arabinda Ghosh
	Megh Brishti Aalo
2011	Bhoy
	Fight 1:1	Debaditya			[49]
	Lorai
2012	Om Shanti	Yes	Tapas Paul	Cameo	[50]
	Ullas
2013	Aleyar Alo	Debabrata Mukherjee			[51]
	Swabhoomi
	Sweet Heart
2017	Paribartan	Yes	Tapas Paul		[24]
2018	Bizli	Iftakar Chowdhury			[52]

Odia films

Year	Title	Director	Note	Ref.
1994	Emiti Bhai Jagate Nahin	Prashanta Nanda

Stage adaptation

Title	Director	Note	Ref.
Andhakaar O Rabindraramani
Teesta	Shekhar Samaddar

Reality show

Year	Title	Role	Note	Ref.
‹See Tfd›?	Satabdir Adday	Host

Literary works

Year	Title	Publication	Note	Ref.
1995	Ei Shatabdir Prem	Dey's Publishing
	Jhaal Mishti Premer Golpo	Deep Prakashan
	Brishti Tumi Aamay Eka	Deep Prakashan
	Jodi Bhalobaso	Dey's Publishing
	Tumi Shudhu Tumi			[53]
	Nirbhoy			[54]

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External links

Satabdi Roy at IMDb