Rituparna Sengupta was born on November 7, 1971 in Calcutta, West Bengal, India. She is an actress and producer, known for Ahaa Re (2019), Drishtikon (2018) and Teenkahon (2014). She has been married to Sanjay Chakrabarty since December 13, 1999. They have two children.
Rituparna Sengupta
Movies
Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji
After Mumbai-based Naren’s Ahuja’s wife, Madhvi, leaves him along with their daughter, he decides to move into an apartment, and share it with two others. He ends up having two tenants – a Casanova-type Abhay Suri, and an aspiring-nerdy poet, Milind Kelkar. While fending-off advances from his lawyer, Sunanda Pradhan,…
Do Knot Disturb
Uncertainty results in the life of Delhi-based Raj when his wealthy wife, Kiran, the sole heir to the Saxena Group of Companies, finds out that he may be having an affair with leggy model, Dolly, who is being stalked by her possessive ex-boyfriend, Diesel. Kiran hires a private detective, Nunnu,…
Life Express
Mumbai-based Tanvi Sharma, married to Financer, Nikhil, for 3 years, is thrilled when she is not only promoted as Assistant Vice-President with her employer, ICBI Bank, but also tests positive for motherhood. But her joy will be short-lived when she must abort the child as it comes in the way…
Love Khichdi
Vir is a bachelor from a small town working as a sous-chef in a five-star hotel in Mumbai. A handsome, charming, macho idiot who flirts with, yearns for and lusts after any woman who is friendly but seems unattainable. From his man-hating maid, whom he ogles as she wipes his…
Main Meri Patni Aur Woh
Employed as a Librarian in Lucknow University’s Tagore Library, Mithilesh Shukla is a 34-year, vertically challenged (just 5’2″) old bachelor, who has an extended family consisting of two sisters and one brother, all married, as well as his widowed mother. His maternal uncle, Advocate Kishorilal Mishra, and his mother persuade…
Teesra Kaun
Three Bollywood-stricken, Calcutta-based slackers, Vijay Verma (Chunky Pandey), Bingo Nagpurkar (Satish Shah), and Khoka Ganguli (Rakesh Bedi), board the Howrah-Bombay Mail, to watch a cricket match, and to meet Mithun Chakraborty. After boarding, the trio consume considerable alcohol. Vijay introduces himself to two other passengers, C.K. Kadam (Amol Palekar), and…
Fun Facts
She was active in the arts since a young age, having learned painting, dancing and handicrafts at a painting school, called Chitrangshu, in childhood.
She also used to write, with columns in periodicals like Anandalok and Bangladesher Hriday.
Studied at Mount Carmel school, and later graduated in History from Lady Brabourne College. She began studying for her Masters Degree in Arts at Calcutta University, but had to interrupt her studies to concentrate on her career as an actress.
She has received critical acclaim for her performances in movies like Dahan (1998), Utsab (2000), House of Memories (2000) and A Tale of a Naughty Girl (2002). She won the Best Actress award at the 1998 Indian National Film Awards for her role in Rituparno Ghosh's Dahan (1998), where she played Romita, a newly-wed woman who is the victim of a sexual assault.
Rituparna is a trained manipuri and odissi dancer. She has a dance troupe called "Bhabna Aaj O Kaal"" (Contemporary Thoughts). The troupe performs various dance-dramas based on Rabindranath Tagore such as Shyama, Meghdoot and Mayar Khela. She also runs a media production company called Prism Entertainment.
Her husband, Sanjay Chakrabarty, is the founder and CEO of MobiApps.
She is actively involved in the cause of children suffering from Thalassaemia.
(2000's) Gave birth to her 1st child, a son Ankan Chakrabarty, with her husband Sanjay Chakrabarty.
Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 39, a daughter Rishona Niya Chakrabarty on May 12, 2011. Child's father is her husband, Sanjay Chakrabarty."