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Indian actor
Rudraprasad Sengupta
(born 31 January 1935) is a
Bengali
Indian
actor, director and cultural critic.
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Sengupta was born in Calcutta (now Kolkata), Bengal, the son of Anant Sengupta and Usha Prabha Sengupta. He studied at the
Scottish Church College
of the
University of Calcutta
where he earned his B.A. and M.A degrees in English literature.
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He started his professional carrier as a lecturer of Sreegopal Banerjee College at Mogra, Hooghly and was formerly a reader in English at the
Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College
, Calcutta, and a visiting lecturer in the Drama Department of
Rabindra Bharati University
.
In 1961 he joined the
Kolkata
-based theatre group
Nandikar
and in the early 1970s started to direct several plays for the group. In the late 1970s he became the leader of the group.
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He had directed many plays including Football, Feriwalar Mrityu among others.
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He received several awards, including the highest national award from
Sangeet Natak Akademi
in 1980. He has also appeared in some
Bengali art films
,
Bernardo Bertolucci
's
Little Buddha
, and
Roland Joffe
's
City of Joy
.
He was married to
Swatilekha Sengupta
, who was one of the leading actresses of Nandikar. His daughter
Sohini Sengupta
is one of the leading actresses in theatre and films.
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