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Gita Dey
Actress, thespian, radio performer (1931-2011) · India · On the map · Actors · Died at 79
Gita Dey was an Indian actress in Bengali cinema, theatre and Bengali folk theater. She became a stage artist at the age of 6 years. She came to the film industry in 1943. Her first film release was Ahuti (1941) as a child actress. She acted in over 200 Bengali-language films and over 2,000 stage shows.
Gita Dey is read about 20 times a day, in 9 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 15 June 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
Hello MemsahebFilm, 20112004
KadhavaseshanFilm, Old Bengali vagrant woman2001
Rakhi PurnimaFilm1997
Baro BouFilm1985
ParamaFilm1979
DebdasFilm1976
Nidhiram SardarFilm1973
Marjina AbdullaFilm, Fatima1971
Jay JayantiFilm, Jayanti's Sister-in-Law1969Born PataFilm1964
JatugrihaFilm1962
Kancher SwargaFilm, Gita bose1960
The Cloud-Capped StarFilm, Mother1956
ShilpiFilm1931Born5 August 1931People around Gita
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Ritwik Ghatak Produced Meghe Dhaka Tara and Komal Gandhar
Soumitra Chatterjee Also in Teen Kanya, Parineeta and Malyadan
Arun Kumar Chatterjee Also in Nishi Padma, Andha Atit and Mouchak
Supriya Devi Also in Meghe Dhaka Tara and Komal Gandhar
Aparna Sen Also in Teen Kanya, Ekhoni and Mem Saheb
Madhabi Mukherjee Also in Subarnarekha and Hirer Shikal
Hemanta Mukhopadhyay Wrote Parineeta, Malyadan and Fuleshwari
Sabitri Chatterjee Also in Nishi Padma, Malyadan and Mouchak- Anil Chatterjee Also in The Cloud-Capped Star (1960)
Debashree Roy Also in Hirer Shikal and Shubha Kamana
Satyajit Ray Produced Teen Kanya (1961)
Utpal Dutt Also in Fuleshwari and Shubha Kamana- Chhabi Biswas Also in Indrani, Kato Ajanare and Kancher Swarga
Sandhya Roy Also in Fuleshwari and Suryatapa
Tapas Paul Also in Shubha Kamana, Santan and Tolly Lights
Bijon Bhattacharya Also in The Cloud-Capped Star (1960)
Ajoy Kar Directed Saat Pake Bandha and Parineeta
Jahor Roy Also in Suryatapa and The Golden Thread
Mithun Chakraborty Also in Nadi Theke Sagare and Tolly Lights
Tapan Sinha Directed Ekhoni (1971)%2C_in_Panaji_(cropped).jpg?width=250)
Victor Banerjee Also in Lathi and Mahaprithibi
Abhi Bhattacharya Also in Subarnarekha and The Golden Thread
Chandrabati Devi Also in Indrani and Jay Jayanti- Santosh Dutta Also in Three Daughters and Marjina Abdulla
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About this person
She acted in the movie Teen Kanya by Satyajit Ray and Rittik Ghatak's Meghe Dhaka Tara, Subarnarekha, Komal Gandhar, and Kato Ajanare. She also acted in Hindi movies such as Parineeta (2005) with Vidya Balan and Sanjay Dutt and other movies. She was associated with All India Radio for a long time doing Shruti Natok. She received the Presidential Award for Lifetime Achievement from Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and many other awards during her lifetime.
