Ruma Guha Thakurta

                                     Hindi , Bengali

        Ruma guha thakurta may be a bengali role player and singer.

Life

                 She was born in 1934 as ruma ghosh. she hails from a brahmo bengali family. her father was satyen ghosh (known as montey ghosh) and her mother was sati hindu deity, a singer. sati devi's younger sister bijoya married film producer satyajit ray. thakurta had her formal education in several places as well as santiniketan for a quick amount. she was educated 1st in loretto then in gokhale faculty and thenceforth sacred heart faculty, lahore. she was conjointly one amongst the earliest kid students of uday shankar cultural centre in almora in its adolescence wherever her mother had been a instructor. kishore kumar married ruma ghosh in might 1951 in urban center, and their son amit kumar was born the subsequent year. the couple unmarried in 1958. she settled in calcutta and married arup guha thakurta and had 2 kids by him, ayan and sromana. in 1958 she discovered calcutta youth choir with salil chowdhury and satyajit ray.

Singing Career

                As a singer ruma guha thakurta recorded a number of rabindra sangeet like maya bono biharini harini with kishore kumar and tomar geeti jagalo smriti with hemant kumar, each in lookochuri, sukher majhe tomai dekhechi in jodi jantem, and potho hara tumi pothika and a few solo songs in bakso badal, baje karun certain in monihara, momo chitte niti nrite in ponchoshor et al.. hmv recorded kotha baire dure, khone khone mone mone and few others. in bangla adunik (modern) songs genre, guhathakurta recorded variety of songs like, mon je amar kemon kemon... and chinite parini badhu... in polatak, ei to hethai kunjo... with kishore kumar in lookochuri, jodi akash hote... in ashite bird genus metallic element (only utilized in film), sukh dress with manna dey in marcus antonius firengee, shudhu poth cheye thaka in baghini, and therefore the baithaki songs within the motion-picture show benarasi. in 1969, hmv recorded ek khana megh bheshe elo akase and bathan bathan by her, that were super hits. her duet songs like sajea dopati with bhupen hazarika are unforgettable. within the year 1993, when satyajit ray died, she recorded puroskare sommane as a tribute to him. she additionally herbaceous plant a song as tribute to missioner, when she had died. most of the songs sung by her is usually connected for arousal the society. the foremost wonderful bengali choral version of ol' manstream is performed frequently on their concerts by city youth choir organized by rumadevi. different noted songs embody tomar amar thikana, ei amader desh, asian nation jai jan, sare jahan se accha, etc. the bengali version of we have a tendency to shall overcome, translated by shibdas bandyopadhyay, ek din surjyer bhor (literally translated as "one day the sun can rise") was recorded by the city youth choir organized by guhathakurta throughout the 1971 asian nation war of independence and have become one among the biggest commerce bengali records.

Acting Career

                  Her career started in film industry as a baby creative person. thakurta acted in additional than one hundred movies in bengali. most of her hindi movies were free within the nineteen fifties. she joined film industry as a baby creative person at a remuneration of five hundred (us$9.1) at the age of 13 within the prithvi theatre. she acted in range hindi movies like rajani, raag rang, samar, afsar, and bairaag. in 1944 devikarani gave her an opportunity in jowar bhata when seeing her dance. ritwik ghatak wished her to act within the lead role in his film meghe dacca town, however she was busy in shooting rajen tarafdar’s gangathus she couldn't settle for the provide. she performed as a lead histrion in films like khaniker athithi, benarasi, ashi te bird genus metal, personal assistant, ganga, abhijan, nirjan saikate, ponchoshor, arogya niketon, and ganashatru. she performed as a supporting histrion in chele kar, garh nasimpur, baghini, jodi jantem, hanghsa mithun, balika badhu, chakranto, malabadal, joradighir chowdhury paribar, aakrosh, and aagun. she won the award for best histrion for her performance in nirjan saikate. she acted as a mother character in amar songee, anuraher chhonya, troyee, dadar kirti, arogya niketon, papee, thirty sixchowringhee lane, amrita kumbher sandhane, and srodhanjoli. she conjointly vie characters in mega tv serials like prabaho, ghum nei, and pratibimbo. in 2006 she conjointly acted in mira nair's the individual. she acted in hindi films too like city ( naukadubi in bengali) with diliplumar and conjointly in mashaal.

Honors And Awards

1982 : Soviet land nehri place 

1963 : President's medal for nirjan saikate

2009 : Banga ratna

2009 : Bharat nirman award from the govt of india.