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Suchitra Sen Birth Anniversary Suchitra Sen's birthday celebrated at her ancestral home in Pabna
Own Correspondent, Dhaka, April 7: Veteran Bengali film actress late Suchitra Sen's 91st birth anniversary was observed at her ancestral place in Pabna.
On the occasion of her birthday, Suchitra Sen Memorial Preservation Council organized a small commemorative meeting at the actress's ancestral home at Hemsagar Lane in Gopalpur Mahalla of Pabna city on Wednesday (April 6).
Leaders of the Suchitra Sen Memorial Preservation Council laid a wreath at Suchitra's mural at the heroine's ancestral home at 11 am. Organizers said the arrangements were limited because of the holy month of Ramadan and the Corona situation.
Suchitra Sen, the time-honoured heroine of Bengali films of the subcontinent, had her ancestral home at Gopalpur Hemsagar Lane in Pabna. She studied up to ninth class in Mahakali Pathshala and Pabna Government Girls High School. After moving to India with her family, the house was first under the care of the district administration. Later it was given under lease to an educational institution run by Jamaat. They were trying to capture the house.
When the house was vacated in 2015, it was returned to the district administration. Suchitra Sen Memorial Preservation Council has been conducting various programmes every year since 2004 to preserve and commemorate Suchitra Sen.
Suchitra Sen (born as Roma Dasgupta) was born on April 6, 1931 in the village of Sen Bhangabari in Belkuchi upazila of the then Greater Pabna (now Sirajganj). Suchitra Sen spent her childhood and adolescence in her one-storey ancestral home in Hemsagar Lane, Gopalpur Mahalla, Pabna. Her father Karunamay Dasgupta used to work as a sanitary inspector of Pabna municipality. Her mother Indira Dasgupta was a housewife.
Roma's father Karunamay Dasgupta and his family migrated to India a few months before the partition of the country in 1947. Suchitra Sen also left with her family. A couple of years after moving to Kolkata (then Calcutta), Roma Dasgupta got married to Dibanath Sen, son of wealthy industrialist Adinath Sen.
