Gita Dey
| Gita Dey | |
|---|---|
| Born |
5 August 1931 Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
| Died | 17 January 2011 (aged 79) Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Other names | Gita maa |
| Occupation | Actress, Stage Singer,Theater artist |
| Years active | 1938–2008 |
| Children | Asit Dey,Rupa Sett,Amit Dey |
Gita Dey (5 August 1931 – 17 January 2011) was a renowned actress in BengaliTollywood films, theatre and Bengali folk theater.She became stage artist at the age of 6 years. She came to the film industry in the year (1943).Her first film release was Ahuti (1941) as a child actress. She acted in over two hundred Bengali language films and over two thousand stage shows. She encated in the movie Teen Kanya under the direction of Satyajit Roy and Rittik Ghatak's Meghe Dhaka Tara, Subarnarekha, Komal Gandhar, Kato Ajanare. She also enacted in Hindi movies such as Parineeta (2005) with Vidya Balam and Sanjay Dutt and other movies She was associated with All India Radio for a long time doing Shruti Natok. She received Presidential Award for Lifetime Achievement from Dr.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and many other awards during her lifetime.
She started as an actress in the Bengali film industry based in Kolkata's Tollygunge since 1938. Her first role was as a child artiste when she was six years old in Ahutee directed by Dhiren Ganguly.
She has been associated with All India Radio since 1954, and enacted character roles in radio plays. However, her last play was Badsahi Chaal (1996), which was directed by Ganesh Mukherjee, and was staged at the Rangana theatre in north Kolkata.
She acted diverse roles in a wide variety of films, and is known for her versatile outlook in her many roles. Her acting even caught the attention of the legendary Laurence Olivier.
Proficient in both negative and comic roles, Dey was brilliant in the role of torn and scheming mother in Ritwik Ghatak's Meghe Dhaka Tara.
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