Satarupa Sanyal

Satarupa Sanyal is a multi-talented personality, she is known as an Actor, Director, Producer, Writer, Singer, Lyricist, Poet. She was born in the year 1962, November 12th in Burdwan (West Bengal) as the eldest daughter of eminent poet Prof. Tarun Sanyal and Mrs.Keya Sanyal. She took interest in film acting since 1985 when she was a student . She took part in the lead role of a Doordarshan play title "SUKH" directed by Santoo Basu in the year 1985 where she has the opportunity to work with Smt Saraju Devi and Ajit Bandopadhyay . In 1985 acted in a Hindi Film based on Tagore short story titled "Aparichita", under the direction of Utpalendu Chakrabarty for Doordarshan National Network. Anupam Kher, Abhishek Chatterjee, Abhijit Sen and Pallabi Mehata were her co artistes in this film. In 1986 , she acted in "Uttaradhikar" a film on communal harmony produced by Films Division,directed by Amar Bhattacharjee.In 1987 ,she acted in the lead role of a highly acclaimed telefilm for Doordarshan Kolkata titled "Bikalpa" based on the story of Narendranath Mitra ,directed by Utpalendu Chakrabarty. After that she has acted in "Sukher Jonne", "Prasab" and "Bhanga Aiyna" and after that she left acting and she got involved in film production works. She worked as an Assistant Director & associated script writer to Utpalendu Chakrabarty for seven years She takes part regularly in various social activities, debates, elocution, seminars. She also worked as external examiner for Jadavpur University (West Bengal) and Assam University (Silchar, Assam) in Mass Communication. For the President award for All Indian Radio, she worked as a Jury in the year 2001. Now she is one of the Honourable member of Central Board of Film Certification (Censor Board). Since 1981 a Bengali Quaterly little Magazine name "Aa" had been published under her Editorship. She also contributes short stories, poem, essayers regularly for the leading periodicals and magazines. ANU was her own short story published in "Sananda", the leading Womens magazine from Kolkata (India).