Chhaya Devi

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Chhaya Devi
Born 1914
Bhagalpur, Bihar and Orissa, British India
Died 27 April 2001
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Occupation Actress
Years active 1930s–1980s

Chhaya Devi (Bengali: ছায়া দেবী) (1914–2001) was an Indian film actress. She acted in hundreds of Bengali and Hindi language movies for over five decades and played many character roles. Her first lead role was in Sonar Sansar (1936), directed by Debaki Bose, and later with Bidyapati (1937) she received acclaim and went on to act in notable films like, Nirjan Saikate (1963), Hatey Bazarey (1967) and Apanjan (1968) by Tapan Sinha, Saptapadi (1961), Uttar Falguni (1963), Antony Firingee (1967), in Bengali, Alaap (1977) in Hindi, which also starred Amitabh Bachchan.

She was first cousin of actor Ashok Kumar's wife Shobha Ganguly, thus related to the Ganguly family.[1]

Filmography

References

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