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Chitrangada Satarupa

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Chitrangada Satarupa is an Indian actress who appears predominantly in Hindi and Bengali cinema. She is known for starring in the critically acclaimed films Tikli and Laxmi Bomb (2017), Tottaa Pataaka Item Maal (2018) and Devi Aur Hero (2019).[1]

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Early and personal life

Chitrangada Satarupa was born as Chitrangada Chakraborty[2] on 19 August[3] to Satarupa Sanyal and Utpalendu Chakrabarty in Kolkata, West Bengal. She studied mass communications at St. Xavier's College, Kolkata.[4] She then moved to Mumbai, joined the theater, and did plays for years. Her first play was Colorblind of which Kalki Koechlin was also a part.[5] She married her longtime boyfriend, Sambit Chatterjee.[6]

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Chitrangada debuted in Bengali films with Antore Bahire (2012). She then appeared in the television series Stories by Rabindranath Tagore (2015), directed by Anurag Basu and based on the novels and short stories of Rabindranath Tagore. She played Mrinmayi, a gamine and flamboyant young woman who struggles with the lack of choice women have in her society.[7] She next starred in the critically acclaimed Tikli and Laxmi Bomb (2017),[8] directed by Aditya Kripalani and based on his novel of the same name.[9][10] She received praise for her performance, and the film was showcased at several film festivals.[11] The film won best feature at the London Asian Film Festival 2018 and the Berlin Independent Film Festival 2018.[12][13]

She then appeared in Bikas Mishra's Pagla Ghoda (2017)[14][15] and starred in Aditya Kripalani's Tottaa Pataaka Item Maal (2018) which met with critical acclaim.[16][17][18] She then played the role of Titli in Ahare Mon (2018)[19][20] The Film companion cited the film as the best Bengali film of the year.[21]

In 2019, she appeared in Shantilal O Projapoti Rohoshyo,[22] Devi Aur Hero, directed by Aditya Kripalani.[23][24] She also appeared in the bilingual medical mystery web series adapted from Indranil Sanyal's novel Karkat Kranti,[25][26] Guilty Minds[27][28] and Mariam (2023).[29][30]

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Filmography

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