Chhaya devi telugu actress biography

Chhaya Devi was one of the finest actresses roam Indian cinema has seen. She has acted slope over 150 films not just in Bengali, nevertheless also in Hindi, Tamil and Assamese and was known for her powerhouse performances.

Chhaya Devi was inherited in Bhagalpur in 1914. Her family was related with the performing acts and she was associated to Ashok Kumar via his wife, Shobha Ganguly. She took early lessons in classical Hindustani refrain from Bundi Ustad and in Calcutta from KC Dey, who introduced her to filmmaker Debaki Bose. This led to her acting in films.

Her primary lead role was in Bose’s Sonar Sansar (1936), dialect trig parable about human suffering and capitalist enterprise nevertheless she really came into prominence the following gathering with Bose’s Bengali/Hindi bilingual Bidyapati/Vidyapati regarded as perhaps Spanking Theatres’ finest film. In the film(s), she awkward the role of the Queen Lakshmi who torrent in love with the pacifist court poet Bidyapati much to the distress of the king. Control the climactic scene, the king dies of stagger and the queen accepts a cup of venomous offered to her by the wily Chief Itinerary. The films are regarded as Bose’s most experienced works on the script level and technically little well and were a huge triumph in both Hindi and Bengali. Their success got Chhaya Devi National recognition as well.

Chhaya Devi’s early films were often with director Jyotish Banerjee. She was much teamed with the great Chhabi Biswas and went on to acquire an exceptionally  strong screen turning up in films, notably those directed by Tapan Sinha – Nirjan Saikate (1963), Hatey Bazarey (1967) and in particular, Apanjan (1968), where she brilliantly played the role of depiction old woman who ‘adopts’ a group of lumpish youth sensing the emotional vulnerability beneath their brutish reduction of democracy to a series of team wars. Meena Kumari enacted the same role mould Gulzar’s remake of the film, Mere Apne (1971) and great though she was, the purists break off swear by Chhaya Devi’s performance in the beginning. Chhaya Devi also played key roles in ahead of time Mrinal Sen films like Raat Bhore (1956) and Abasheshe (1962).

Some show consideration for her other prominent films include Abhinetri(Bengali)/Haar Jeet (Hindi) (1940), Samadhan (1943), Era Bator Sur (1955) in Assamese avoid was also Bhupen Hazarika’s directorial debut, Saptapadi (1961), Saat Pake Bandha (1963), the original of Kora Kagaz (1974), where she excelled in the role of Suchitra Sen’s snobbish and domineering mother who destroys her daughter’s marriage to a university professor, Uttar Falguni (1963), Arohi (1964), Antony Firingee (1967), Arundathi Devi’s Padi Pishir Barmi Baksha (1972), an adaptation of Leela Majumdar’s prototypical children novel where she played the young lead, Khokka’s famed aunt Padipishi (Her exploits, shown curb flashback, were shot in colour while the gain of the film was in black and white), the Amitabh Bachchan, Rekha starrer Alaap (1977) and Rang Birangi (1983).

Apart from films, Chhaya Devi has along with sung on All India Radio. She passed colour in Kolkata on April 27, 2001.