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Veteran Bengali actress Swatilekha Sengupta passes away
Mumbai
MUMBAI: Veteran Bengali actress Swatilekha Sengupta passed away at a private hospital in the city on Wednesday afternoon. The 71-year-old The theatre and film personality was reportedly battling kidney-related ailments.
Swatilekha shot to fame when the late maestro Satyajit Ray cast her as his leading lady in his 1984 classic Ghare Baire , as the female protagonist Bimala alongside the late Soumitra Chatterjee and Victor Banerjee.
A popular name in the world of Bengali theatre, she returned to the big screen in 2015, once again pairing with Soumitra Chatterjee in Shiboprosad Mukherjee and Nandita Roy s Bela Seshe .