(age 81)
Lolita Chatterjee (1937 – 9 May 2018) was an actress who worked in Bengali Cinema. She made her debut as an adult in 1964 and played her first role in the Bengali classic ‘''Bibhas''’ alongside
Uttam Kumar
Uttam Kumar ( bn, উত্তম কুমার; born Arun Kumar Chattopadhyay; 3 September 1926 – 24 July 1980), popularly known as the Mahanayak, was an Indian actor, producer, director, script writer, composer, and singer who predom ...
.
Career
She made her debut as a child actor in 1949 film Ananya. She later acted in a Bengali classic ‘''Bibhas''’ alongside
Uttam Kumar
Uttam Kumar ( bn, উত্তম কুমার; born Arun Kumar Chattopadhyay; 3 September 1926 – 24 July 1980), popularly known as the Mahanayak, was an Indian actor, producer, director, script writer, composer, and singer who predom ...
. Afterwards, she acted in a few other Bengali films and then eventually moved to
Mumbai
Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' fin ...
.
She acted in films in the 1960s and ’70s, Bollywood films, and was cast in small yet important roles in ‘Raat Andheri Thi’, ‘''
Aap Ki Kasam
''Aap Ki Kasam'' (English: ''I swear by you'') is a 1974 Indian Hindi romance film produced by J. Om Prakash, which also marks his directorial debut. The film stars Rajesh Khanna, Mumtaz, Sanjeev Kumar, Rehman, Asrani and A. K. Hangal. The musi ...
''’, ‘''Talaash''’, ‘''
Victoria No. 203''’ and ‘
Pushpanjali
Pushpanjali (Sanskrit:पुष्पाञ्जलि, literally ''folded hands full of flowers'') is an offering of flowers to Hindu deities.
Pushpanjali is the first dance in a Bharatnatyam performance. It is the salutation to the lord of d ...
’. Her last film was ''
Jonaki'' (2018) directed by
Aditya Vikram Sengupta.
She died following a cerebral stroke in Kolkata nursing, at the age of 81.
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1937 births
2018 deaths
Indian film actresses
Actresses in Bengali cinema
Actresses in Hindi cinema