June 11, 2026 04:29 am (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
Sonia Gandhi reportedly floats ‘Ghar Wapsi’ offer to Mamata Banerjee | Modi-Trump meet back in focus as report hints at G7 sidelines talks in France | Mamata's troubles deepen! Sushmita Dev quits Rajya Sabha, Himanta meet sparks BJP buzz | India's first AI data centre is coming! Reliance-Meta deal sends stock soaring | Anti-immigration protests hit Belfast after knife attack | Maharashtra CM backs Israel’s plan for Shivaji Maharaj statue — Big diplomatic gesture | NDA strength crosses 300 in Lok Sabha as 20 rebel TMC MPs extend support | Big nuclear boost! India’s arsenal surges to around 190 warheads, says SIPRI report | Fresh blow to TMC! Ex-Bidhannagar Mayor Sabyasachi Dutta arrested in extortion case | Mamata's crisis deepens! 20 TMC Lok Sabha MPs back NDA as party splits in Parliament
Swatilekha Sengupta
WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Actress Swatilekha Sengupta dies in Kolkata

| @indiablooms | Jun 16, 2021, at 09:13 pm

Kolkata: Actress and popular theatre personality Swatilekha Sengupta, who is also remembered for her performance in film maestro Satyajit Ray's Ghare Baire, died on Wednesday here.

She was 71.

Swatilekha Sengupta was undergoing treatment with kidney issues at a private hospital in South Kolkata for the last 25 days.

She died of renal failure (non-covid) this afternoon.

Swatilekha Sengupta was the wife of theatre personality Rudraprasad Sengupta and mother of actress Sohini Sengupta.

She was a part of the iconic Nandikar theatre group.

She played the role of the lead female protagonist in Ghare Baire, a 1985 film by Satyajit Ray, opposite actor Victor Banerjee and Soumitra Chatterjee.

In recent years, she earned appreciation from fans for her role in Bengali movie Bela Seshe.

(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.