One of the foremost theatre personalities of Bengal, actor and director Shobha Sen, died in Kolkata on Sunday. She was 93.
Sen was associated with the Leftist theatre movement led by the Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA) since the early 1940s at both the State and national level. Her acting career spanned over five decades.
She worked in some path-breaking productions from Bengal, including Nabanna (New Harvest) by playwright Bijon Bhattacharya.
Married to the thespian Utpal Dutta, Sen acted in a series of plays written and directed by Dutta, such as Titu Mir, Tiner Talowar and Barricade .
She worked extensively with many eminent film-makers like Mrinal Sen, Basu Chatterjee and Gautam Ghose. She also acted in Shadows of Time , a film by German film-maker Florian Gallenberger.
Sen remained associated with Leftist ideology and various Left-leaning movements throughout his life. She donated her body to a public hospital in Kolkata.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee condoled Sen’s death.
