Rituparna Sengupta

Rituparna Sengupta (Ritupôrna Shengupta; born 7 November 1971) is an Indian actress from Kolkata, West Bengal. She is one of the most successful and sought-after stars in Bengali Cinema, and is also currently performing in some well known Hindi Cinema.

Rituparna was interested in the arts since a young age and learned painting, dancing, singing and handicrafts at a painting school, called Chitrangshu. She studied at Mount Carmel school, and later graduated in History from Lady Brabourne College. She began studying Modern History for an M.A. at University of Calcutta, but had to interrupt studies to concentrate on her career as an actress.

Her first film was Swet Patharer Thala with Aparna Sen who played her mother-in-law. in Her Hindi debut was N N Sippy's Teesra Kaun directed by Parto Ghosh. Hema Malini picked her for a negative supporting role in Zee's home-production Mohini, starring Madhu and Sudesh Berry. In 2013, she will be making her Malayalam debut with Sohanlal's Kadhaveedu.

She had named her favourite Bengali films -- Sujan Sakhi, Shami Keno Ashami, Moner Manush, Adorer Bon—directed by the quickie-hit-maker Swapan Saha, Ami Shei Meye directed by Prasenjeet, Sansar Sangram directed by Chiranjeet.

Sengupta got married to her childhood friend Sanjay Chakrabarty, founder and CEO of MobiApps on 13 December 1999 in Munshigonj and the couple has a son named Ankan and a daughter named Rishona Niya.