Acting
Aug 7, 1962
Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Debashree Roy
Acting
Biography
Debashree Roy (born 8 August 1962), also known as Debasree Roy, is an Indian actress, dancer, choreographer, politician and animal rights activist. As an actress, she is known for her work in Hindi and Bengali cinema. She has been cited as the reigning queen of Bengali commercial cinema. She acted in more than a hundred films and won over forty awards, including a National Award, three BFJA Awards, five Kalakar Awards and an Anandalok Award. As a dancer, she is known for her stage adaptations of the various forms of Indian folk dances as well as her innovative dance forms imbued with elements from Indian classical, tribal and folk dance. She runs Natraj dance troupe. She is the founder of Debasree Roy Foundation, a non-profit organisation that works for the cause of stray animals. Roy was a Member of the Legislative Assembly from Raidighi constituency since 2011 till 2021. From Wikipedia (en), the free encyclopedia
Feature Films (83)
Radha, a young man, visits a village to attend the wedding of his friend's sister. However, when the groom runs away, he is forced to marry the devastated bride.
Manaivi Ready
Three brothers go through ups and downs in their lives after the death of their parents.
Jiyo To Aise Jiyo
A woman plunges into a river after her boyfriend refused to marry her, but is saved by another man of inferior caste whom she marries.
Seepeeyan
A young woman wants to pursue a career in music and desires to become better at the art. However, she faces opposition from her family members who instead want her to get married.
Gandharbi
An honest and upright lawyer becomes a judge; marries his disabled daughter to a crook, and is blackmailed to compromise his judicial judgements.
Justice Chaudhury
Lali, an arrogant woman who leads a wealthy lifestyle, gets humiliated by Rajiv, an honest man. In order to take revenge, she decides to get married to him but embarrasses him on their engagement day.
Phulwari
Bimawl, an honest government officer, lives an apparently happy conjugal life with his wife Mouli. Things change when Mouli's college friend visits their home.
Abaidha
A family drama that is based on a complicated love story. It tells the story of two friends, one of whom loses his eyesight in an accident. In order to not punish his love, he decides to lie to his love and makes her leave him on purpose. In a tragic turn of events, it happens so that the best friend is to marry the hero's love. Dealing with a lot of complications and emotional turmoil, the truth is known by all and then finally, the two lovers are united with happiness.
Surer Akashe
Nivaran Chatterjee lives with his wife and three sons: an elder married, son Kedarnath impaired after a head injury, and youngest Amarnath, a student. Amarnath loves Beeni Mukherjee, whose sister Saraswati studies. Kedarnath admires Saraswati but pretends to be an athlete; she learns his fraud, ends the romance and marries her father's chosen suitor.
Dadar Kirti
This story and screenplay has been created with the essence from the poem “Hathat Dekha” by Rabindranath Tagore. Unseparated untouched but with times of age flowed to turn them old but they met each other in a railway compartment.
Hotath Dekha
Television & Series (2)
Sucharita Lahiri, a middle-aged homemaker, becomes famous as Chemistry Mashi by imparting free chemistry lessons online. But when highly paid coaching institutes smell trouble, Sucharita must navigate politicised scandals and systemic corruption in the education sector to keep teaching those in need.
Chemistry Mashi
The story of Jaya, an ordinary housewife, who decides to break the stereotype to carve an identity for herself and live her dreams with her husbands support.