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Aparna Sen

Aparna Sen was born in Calcutta on 25 October 1945, the daughter of the critic and filmmaker Chidananda Dasgupta and the costume designer Supriya Dasgupta. A student at Presidency College, she made her debut at sixteen with Satyajit Ray and became one of the leading actresses of Bengali cinema in the sixties and seventies. She long edited the women's weekly Sananda, then directed films in Bengali, English and Hindi, and received the Padma Shri.

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