childhood
father in the school admission form wrote her name as Roma Dasgupta.
The Pabna Girls School dress was sari. Roma used to wear sari attractively, and with her long hair well combed, she used to look gorgeous. Young men, used to stare at her from the corner of their eyes, but she enjoyed a smile and often a laugh with her classmates.
In the school cultural events, Roma excelled in both dance and songs. She was a heartthrob of school students, teachers and neighbors for her cultural performances. The introvert Roma, when in class seven, her was hobbies were watching movies in Arora (now Bani Cinema) Hall, listening to gramophone records. One day in the school, sitting on the desk during off-period, she told her class mates that one day she will leave behind her legendary history.
marriage
Roma Sen to a studio in Park Street recording of a song. She was selected after an audition (test), but unfortunately, she did not become a singer. On the recording studio floor in Park Street, she was offered to be actress of proposed 'Sangket'. Unfortunately, she could not sign the contract with the director Pinaki Mukerjee, after her father-in-law Adinath Sen seriously objected to join the film world.
In 1952, the sun once again shone bright over her stardom. She acted as principal character in 'Shesh Katha' directed by Bireswar Basu after her father-in-law gave permission.
In her second black & white comedy movie 'Sharey Chuwattor', she paired with Uttam Kumar was released after 13 days of her first film. The movie was a major blockbuster. The Uttam-Suchitra pair together created 30 best movies in the golden era, which is till bracketed as classic movies. Suchitra acted in 60 movies, including six movies in Hindi in Bollywood, Mumbai. Her last movie 'Pronoy Pasha' released in 1978, was directed by Mangal Chakrabarti.
She also acted with film stalwarts Bikash Rai, Utpal Dutta, Bikash Rai, Soumitra Chatterjee, Deb Anand, Ashok Kumar, Dharmendra, Ashok Kumar, Sanjeeb Kumar and many others
Self Exile
Suchitra completely stayed away from public appearances from 1986 to 2014. Earlier she formally declared herself to retire from acting in movies since 1978, despite repeated appeals by doyen of film industry in Kolkata and Mumbai.
The death of legendary film actor Uttam Kumar in 1980 had shocked her so much that incident made her to further seclude her herself from public.
Never again she appeared in public events, family gatherings outside her home or even visiting any near and dear one'sat home or in hospitals. Suchitra Sen, the heartthrob of millions, died of lungs infection and acute respiratory problems on January 17, 2014. Millions of her admirers, well-wishers and fans cried in silence. Such actress, will never be reborn in Bengal, and never had born to replace the everlasting  glory..
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