Shatabdi Roy

Satabdi Roy
শতাব্দী রায়
Incumbent
Assumed office
22 May 2009
Personal details
Born 5 October 1968 (1968-10-05) (age 43)
Kolkata, West Bengal
Nationality Indian
Political party All India Trinamool Congress
Residence Kolkata
Occupation Actress/Politician
Religion Hinduism

Shatabdi Roy (Bengali: শতাব্দী রায়; born 5 October 1968), became a Member of Parliament in 2009, having won in the Indian General Elections on a Trinamool Congress ticket from the Birbhum[1] constituency of West Bengal.[2]

She has been an actress, director and teacher of acting in the Bengali language film industry of India, as well as a published author of Bengali poetry. Her duties as MP keep her traveling and busy with meetings now. On her agenda; change in the form of roads, electricity, hospitals and schools for her constituents.

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Awards received

Shatabdi won the Bengali Film Journalists' Award for best supporting actress for the film Debipaksha in 2005.[3][4]

Early life

She was born on 5 October 1968, in Agarpara, to Shailen and Nilima Roy. Shatabdi Roy passed her Madhyamik from Sorojini High School in 1985 and later attended Jogamaya Devi College, a women's college affiliated to the University of Calcutta.

Film career and home life

Shatabdi made her film debut in the film called Atanka, directed by Tapan Sinha, which was released in 1986. (Earlier she had worked in a film called Tina directed by Dinen Gupta, but it was never released.) More recently she acted in and directed a new science-fiction film Friend, released in 2009. When not working on a shoot, Shatabdi would teach acting at the Shatabdi Foundation or spend time with her son Samyoraj (Tozo) and husband Mrigank Banerjee, a marketing executive.[5]

Films

References

  1. ^ S.Saha. "Satabdi Roy -Political Profile,Contact, Blogs, News, Address". westbengalelectionresult.com. http://westbengalelectionresult.com/satabdi-roy/315. 
  2. ^ [1] 'Shatabdi Takes to Playing Teacher' by Chandrima S. Bhattacharya, Calcutta Telegraph, 6 May 2009
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  5. ^ [4] The Telegraph - Calcutta : Weekend

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