Raima Sen
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Raima Sen is an Indian film actress.
. Her sister, Riya Sen
, is also in the Bollywood
industry. Their father Bharat Dev Varma
is a member of the royal family of Tripura
. Her paternal grandmother, Ila Devi, was the princess of Cooch Behar
, whose younger sister Gayatri Devi
was the Maharani of Jaipur
. Her paternal great-grandmother Indira
was the only daughter of Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III
of Baroda. Raima's maternal great-grandfather Adinath Sen was a prominent Kolkata businessman, whose father Dinanath Sen - a relative of former Union Law Minister Ashoke Kumar Sen
- was the Diwan or a Minister of the Maharaja of Tripura. The sisters are credited on-screen under their mother's maiden name, although their official papers carry the surname Dev Varma.
, which was a critically acclaimed success, but her minor role may have been overlooked in favour of the protagonist, played by Shabana Azmi
. She then starred in the film Daman playing Raveena Tandon
's daughter, where her small performance was appreciated.
Her breakthrough role came when she starred in the Rituparno Ghosh
's film Chokher Bali
. After a few more average movies she had a critically acclaimed hit in 2005 with Parineeta
, where she played the playmate of the film's heroine, essayed by the debutante Vidya Balan
. Since then she has had two more hits with the action thriller Dus and the Bengali film Antar Mahal
(where she had a very small role). In 2006, she appeared in the film The Bong Connection
(co-starring Shayan Munshi
). In 2007, she worked in the thriller Manorama Six Feet Under
with Abhay Deol.
She has signed her first Tamil
film and she is expected to do more South Indian films. She has yet, however, to play the leading role in any hit movie.
who has been compared more to their mother
. Raima is also said to resemble her grandmother
much more than either her mother or her sister. Journalists who meet her describe her as easy to talk to, and devoid of starry airs.
In an interview, she says while she enjoys Mumbai's faster pace of life, its gyms and its nightclubs, she misses her family in Kolkata, her dog cuddles, and Kolkata's street food, notably Jhal Muri and Aloo Chaat
.
Early life
She is the daughter of Moon Moon Sen and the granddaughter of legendary actress Suchitra SenSuchitra Sen
Suchitra Sen ; or Rama Dasgupta , is an Indian actress who acted in several Bengali films. In particular, the movies in which she paired opposite another legend in Bengali films, Uttam Kumar, became classics in the history of Bengali cinema. She now lives a life of a recluse rarely making any...
. Her sister, Riya Sen
Riya Sen
Riya Sen is an Indian film actress and model. Riya, who hails from a family of actors including her grandmother Suchitra Sen, mother Moon Moon Sen and sister Raima Sen, began her acting career in 1991 as a child artiste in the film Vishkanya. Her first commercial success in her film career was...
, is also in the Bollywood
Bollywood
Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...
industry. Their father Bharat Dev Varma
Bharat Dev Varma
Bharat Dev Varma is a minor Tripuri royal, currently living in the city of Kolkata, formerly Calcutta....
is a member of the royal family of Tripura
Tripura
Tripura is a state in North-East India, with an area of . It is the third smallest state of India, according to area. Tripura is surrounded by Bangladesh on the north, south, and west. The Indian states of Assam and Mizoram lie to the east. The capital is Agartala and the main languages spoken are...
. Her paternal grandmother, Ila Devi, was the princess of Cooch Behar
Cooch Behar
Cooch Behar is the district headquarters and the largest city of Cooch Behar District in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is situated in the foothills of the Eastern Himalayas and located at . Cooch Behar is the only planned town in North Bengal region with remnants of royal heritage...
, whose younger sister Gayatri Devi
Gayatri Devi
Gayatri Devi , often styled as Maharani Gayatri Devi, Rajmata of Jaipur, was born as Princess Gayatri Devi of Cooch Behar...
was the Maharani of Jaipur
Jaipur
Jaipur , also popularly known as the Pink City, is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Rajasthan. Founded on 18 November 1727 by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II, the ruler of Amber, the city today has a population of more than 3.1 million....
. Her paternal great-grandmother Indira
Indira of Baroda
Indira Raje of Baroda , later the Maharani of Cooch Behar, and later Her Highness the Maharani Sahiba after her son's succession, was the consort of Maharaja Jitendra of Cooch Behar and a princess of Baroda in her own right...
was the only daughter of Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III
Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III
165454565Sayajirao Gaekwad III was the Maharaja of Baroda State from 1875 to 1939, and is notably remembered for reforming much of his state during his rule....
of Baroda. Raima's maternal great-grandfather Adinath Sen was a prominent Kolkata businessman, whose father Dinanath Sen - a relative of former Union Law Minister Ashoke Kumar Sen
Ashoke Kumar Sen
Ashoke Kumar Sen was an Indian barrister, a former Cabinet minister of India, and an Indian parliamentarian....
- was the Diwan or a Minister of the Maharaja of Tripura. The sisters are credited on-screen under their mother's maiden name, although their official papers carry the surname Dev Varma.
Career
Sen made her debut in the film GodmotherGodmother (film)
Godmother is a Hindi movie directed by Vinay Shukla released in 1999, and ostensibly inspired by the life of Santokben Jadeja.-Cast:* Shabana Azmi - Rambhi* Milind Gunaji - Veeram* Nirmal Pandey - Jakhra* Govind Namdeo - Kesubhai...
, which was a critically acclaimed success, but her minor role may have been overlooked in favour of the protagonist, played by Shabana Azmi
Shabana Azmi
Shabana Azmi is an Indian actress of film, television and theatre. An alumna of the Film and Television Institute of India of Pune, she made her film debut in 1974 and soon became one of the leading actresses of parallel cinema, an Indian New Wave movement known for its serious content and...
. She then starred in the film Daman playing Raveena Tandon
Raveena Tandon
Raveena Tandon is a National Film Award winning Indian actress, producer, and a former model. She has primarily worked in Bollywood films, though she appeared in a few Tamil, Kannada and Telugu films as well....
's daughter, where her small performance was appreciated.
Her breakthrough role came when she starred in the Rituparno Ghosh
Rituparno Ghosh
Rituparno Ghosh is a Bengali film director. He has won 8 National Film Awards in India and several awards at international film festivals abroad.- Early life and background :...
's film Chokher Bali
Chokher Bali
Chokher Bali , literally Sand of the Eye, equivalent to eyesore, is a Bengali novel written by Rabindranath Tagore in the early twentieth century.-Plot:...
. After a few more average movies she had a critically acclaimed hit in 2005 with Parineeta
Parineeta (2005 film)
Parineeta is a Bollywood musical film adaptation of the 1914 Bengali novella, Parineeta by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay. Directed by debutant Pradeep Sarkar, the film was based upon a screenplay by the film's producer, Vidhu Vinod Chopra. The film featured Vidya Balan, Saif Ali Khan and Sanjay Dutt...
, where she played the playmate of the film's heroine, essayed by the debutante Vidya Balan
Vidya Balan
Vidya Balan is an Indian actress, who appears in Hindi films. After graduating with a degree in sociology, she started her career starring in music videos, television shows and commercials, before appearing in feature films....
. Since then she has had two more hits with the action thriller Dus and the Bengali film Antar Mahal
Antar Mahal
Antar Mahal is a 2005 Bengali cinema directed by Rituparno Ghosh and the executive producer is Anil Kuriakose.Jackie Shroff plays the zamindar. Other lead roles include Rupa Ganguly and Soha Ali Khan. Abhishek Bachchan plays a supporting role in this Bengali film.-Plot:The story takes place...
(where she had a very small role). In 2006, she appeared in the film The Bong Connection
The Bong Connection
The Bong Connection is a 2006 Indian movie starring Raima Sen, Shayan Munshi and Parambrata Chatterjee and directed by Anjan Dutta. The movie is based on the lives of Bengalis in the U.S. and Kolkata.-Plot:...
(co-starring Shayan Munshi
Shayan Munshi
Shayan ShayaMunshi is an Indian model turned actor who made his debut in the 2003 Bollywood film Jhankaar Beats. Haylinwho is from KolkzimiVJ and actress Peeya Rai Chowdhary in 2006. Shayan has also been seen in music videos and films like My Brother Nikhil....
). In 2007, she worked in the thriller Manorama Six Feet Under
Manorama Six Feet Under
Manorama Six Feet Under is a 2007 Indian thriller film directed and co-written by Navdeep Singh. The film features Abhay Deol, Raima Sen and Gul Panag in the lead roles. It was released on 21 September 2007....
with Abhay Deol.
She has signed her first Tamil
Tamil cinema
Tamil cinema is the film industry based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, dedicated to the production of films in the Tamil language. It is based in Chennai's Kodambakkam district, where several South Indian film production companies are headquartered...
film and she is expected to do more South Indian films. She has yet, however, to play the leading role in any hit movie.
Personal life
Raima's public profile and image is much lower-key and more demure than that of her sister RiyaRiya Sen
Riya Sen is an Indian film actress and model. Riya, who hails from a family of actors including her grandmother Suchitra Sen, mother Moon Moon Sen and sister Raima Sen, began her acting career in 1991 as a child artiste in the film Vishkanya. Her first commercial success in her film career was...
who has been compared more to their mother
Moonmoon Sen
Moon Moon Sen is an Indian film actress. She did movies in Bengali, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Marathi and Kannada films. Sen is part of a three generational family of actors and was a staple of the Bengali film industry, starring in many hit films...
. Raima is also said to resemble her grandmother
Suchitra Sen
Suchitra Sen ; or Rama Dasgupta , is an Indian actress who acted in several Bengali films. In particular, the movies in which she paired opposite another legend in Bengali films, Uttam Kumar, became classics in the history of Bengali cinema. She now lives a life of a recluse rarely making any...
much more than either her mother or her sister. Journalists who meet her describe her as easy to talk to, and devoid of starry airs.
In an interview, she says while she enjoys Mumbai's faster pace of life, its gyms and its nightclubs, she misses her family in Kolkata, her dog cuddles, and Kolkata's street food, notably Jhal Muri and Aloo Chaat
Chaat
Chaat is a term describing savoury snacks, typically served at road-side tracks from stalls or carts in India. With its origins in east India, chaat has become immensely popular in the rest of India and the rest of South Asia...
.
Awards
- 2006: BFJA-Most Promising Actress AwardBengal Film Journalists' Association - Most Promising Actress AwardHere is a list of the award winners and the films for which they won....
: for Nishi Japan
Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Language | Other notes |
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| 1999 | Godmother | Sejal | Hindi Hindi Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi... |
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| 2001 | Daman | Deepa Saikia | Hindi | |
| 2003 | Nil Nirjane Nil Nirjane Nil Nirjane is a Bengali Movie, released in 2003. This is the first movie in India which was shot on digital platform and is often credited as the first digital film in India. Directed by Subrata Sen, the movie featured Moonmoon Sen, Raima Sen, June Malliah, Mou Sultana and Rajatabha Datta... |
Bengali Bengali language Bengali or Bangla is an eastern Indo-Aryan language. It is native to the region of eastern South Asia known as Bengal, which comprises present day Bangladesh, the Indian state of West Bengal, and parts of the Indian states of Tripura and Assam. It is written with the Bengali script... |
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| Chokher Bali Chokher Bali Chokher Bali , literally Sand of the Eye, equivalent to eyesore, is a Bengali novel written by Rabindranath Tagore in the early twentieth century.-Plot:... |
Ashalata | Bengali | ||
| Fun2shh... Dudes in the 10th Century Fun2shh... Dudes in the 10th Century Fun2shh... Dudes in the 10th Century is a 2003 Comedy Hindi film directed by Imtiaz Punjabi. The film is about three 21st century guys who lives in Mumbai went to 10th Century, in the Kingdom of Emperor Babushah. Gulshan Grover, Paresh Rawal, Mohammad Iqbal Khan, Anuj Sawhney are in leading roles.... |
Junali | Hindi | ||
| 2004 | Shakti | Bengali | ||
| 2005 | Antar Mahal Antar Mahal Antar Mahal is a 2005 Bengali cinema directed by Rituparno Ghosh and the executive producer is Anil Kuriakose.Jackie Shroff plays the zamindar. Other lead roles include Rupa Ganguly and Soha Ali Khan. Abhishek Bachchan plays a supporting role in this Bengali film.-Plot:The story takes place... |
Rukmini | Bengali | |
| Dhairyam | Mallika | Telugu Telugu language Telugu is a Central Dravidian language primarily spoken in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India, where it is an official language. It is also spoken in the neighbouring states of Chattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Orissa and Tamil Nadu... |
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| Nishijapon Nishijapon - Synopsis :Bimal is visited by his family and his friend in his Darjeeling house. Anita, his elder son Nirmal's wife, takes good care of them, spending most of her time in the kitchen... |
Bengali | |||
| Parineeta Parineeta Parineeta is a 1914 Bengali language novella written by Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay and is set in Calcutta, India during the early part of the 20th century. It is a novel of social protest which explores issues of that time period related to class and religion.-Title:The word Parineeta is... |
Parineeta | Hindi | ||
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Kim G. Singh | Hindi | ||
| Dus | Priya | Hindi | ||
| 2006 | The Bong Connection The Bong Connection The Bong Connection is a 2006 Indian movie starring Raima Sen, Shayan Munshi and Parambrata Chatterjee and directed by Anjan Dutta. The movie is based on the lives of Bengalis in the U.S. and Kolkata.-Plot:... |
Bengali | ||
| Anuranan Anuranan Anuranan is the directorial debut by Bengali film-maker Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury. The film premiered at the 2006 International Film Festival of India.... |
Bengali | |||
| 2007 | Eklavya: The Royal Guard Eklavya: The Royal Guard Eklavya: The Royal Guard is a Bollywood film directed by Vidhu Vinod Chopra which was released in India, the Netherlands, the United States, and the United Kingdom on 16 February 2007.... |
Princess Nandini | Hindi | |
| Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. is a Bollywood movie, released on 23 February 2007. It is produced by Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani through Excel Entertainment and has marked the debut of Reema Kagti as a director. The movie has six different part in it... |
Milly P. Sen | Hindi | ||
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Hindi | |||
| Manorama Six Feet Under Manorama Six Feet Under Manorama Six Feet Under is a 2007 Indian thriller film directed and co-written by Navdeep Singh. The film features Abhay Deol, Raima Sen and Gul Panag in the lead roles. It was released on 21 September 2007.... |
Sheetal | Hindi | ||
| Sunglass | Bengali | |||
| Migration | Yamuna | |||
| Meridian Lines | Jyoti | |||
| 2008 | Khela Khela Khela is a Bengali film by Rituparno Ghosh. The film is about an idealistic director's quench to make a film with a boy who he thinks is just perfect for the role... |
Bengali | ||
| Dhariya | ||||
| C Kkompany C Kkompany C Kkompany is a 2008 Hindi comedy film directed by debutant Sachin Yardi, and starring Tusshar Kapoor, Anupam Kher, Rajpal Yadav and Raima Sen. It also features Mithun Chakraborty, Mahesh Bhatt, Sakshi Tanwar, producer Ekta Kapoor and Karan Johar in special appearances. Sanjay Dutt has an extended... |
Priya | Hindi | ||
| Mukhbiir Mukhbiir Mukhbiir is a 2008 Indian thriller film directed by the Mani Shankar. Filmed in Hindi, the film revolves around the life and events surrounding an Indian spy... |
Hindi | |||
| 2009 | Mere Khwabon Mein Jo Aaye | Maya | Hindi | |
| Mumbai Cutting Mumbai Cutting Mumbai Cutting is a 2010 anthology Indian film comprising eleven short films, telling eleven different stories based on life in Mumbai, which are directed by a host of eleven directors: Anurag Kashyap, Sudhir Mishra, Rahul Dholakia, Kundan Shah, Revathy, Jahnu Barua, Rituparno Ghosh, Shashanka... |
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| 2010 | The Japanese Wife The Japanese Wife The Japanese Wife is a 2010 Indian film directed by Bengali filmmaker Aparna Sen. It stars Rahul Bose, Raima Sen and Moushumi Chatterjee, and Japanese actress Chigusa Takaku in the title role... |
Sandhya | Bengali | |
| Memories in March Memories in March Memories in March is a 2010 Indian drama film directed by Sanjoy Nag. The film stars Deepti Naval, Rituparno Ghosh and Raima Sen. The film is the effective exploration of a situation wherein a bereaved mother comes to terms... |
Sahana Chowdhury | English (Partly in Bengali & Hindi) | ||
| Teen Patti Teen patti Teen Patti is a gambling card game that originated in India and became popular in South Asia. This game is also called Flash- Game Start :The game starts with one of the players dealing the cards... |
Hindi | |||
| Natobar Not Out | Bengali | |||
| Mirch | Maya/Manjula | Hindi | ||
| 2011 | Noukadubi Noukadubi Noukadubi is a Bengali film directed by Rituporno Ghosh, released on January 2011. The movie is a period film set in the 1920s, based on a novel by Rabindranath Tagore of the same name, although the credits claim that the film is ‘inspired’ by the Tagore novel because Rituparno Ghosh has taken the... / Kashmakash Kashmakash -Personnel:All information is taken from the CD.Junoon*Salman Ahmad - vocals, lead guitar*Ali Azmat - vocals, backing vocals*Brian O'Connell - bass guitar, backing vocalsAdditional musicians*Female vocals on "Jogia" by Fifi Haroon... (Hindi dubbed version) |
Hemnalini | Bengali/Hindi | |
| Baishe Srabon Baishe Srabon Baishe Srabon is a 2011 Bengali musical thriller directed by director Srijit Mukherji. The cast of the movie consists of Prosenjit Chatterjee, Parambrata Chatterjee, Raima Sen, Abir Chatterjee and reputed actor Gautam Ghosh who made a come back after 29 years... |
Amrita | Bengali | ||
| Veeraputhran Veeraputhran Veeraputhran is a 2011 Malayalam historical film directed by P. T. Kunju Muhammed based on a story written by N. P. Mohammed, which is based on the life of freedom fighter Mohammed Abdul Rahiman . The film focuses mainly on the revolutions in Kerala during British Rule against the British Kingdom... |
Kunhi Bevathu | Malayalam Malayalam language Malayalam , is one of the four major Dravidian languages of southern India. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India with official language status in the state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Pondicherry. It is spoken by 35.9 million people... |