Legendary Bengali actor
Suchitra Sen who was undergoing treatment at a private health facility in the
city died in Kolkata on Friday morning.
She was 82 and is survived
by daughter Moon Moon Sen and grand daughters Raima and Riya Sen.
She suffered a massive
heart attack on Friday morning and died at 8.25 a.m., doctors attending her
said.
Suchitra Sen was admitted
to Belle Vue Clinic in southern parts of the city on December 23, with chest
infection. A seven member medical board, headed by doctor Subrata Maitra, was
treating her over the past three weeks as her condition fluctuated between
critical and stable.
Chief Minister Mamata
Banerjee who was in regular touch with doctors visited the hospital after
hearing about her death. Ms. Banerjee said she was a “legendary figure” who
could stay away from public eye for over thirty years when many carve for it.
“When I came to see her
for the second time at the hospital she asked who I am, with lot of affection,”
she said. The family wants that her final rites to be completed peacefully at a
crematorium in the city, Ms. Banerjee said.
Sen acted in over 50
movies between 1952 and 1978 of which six were in Hindi. She went into recluse
after her last film was released. Over the past three decades she withdrew
herself from public life and did not meet people except her family members.
Prominent cinema
personalities expressed grief over her death. Renowned actor and director
Aparna Sen described her as a “legendary actress” and said, with her death an
era has come to end in Bengali cinema.
Actor Mithun Chakraborty
said that Sen was undisputed number one actor and a rare mix of beauty and
talent.
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