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00:30Today, I will talk to him.

00:32I will get to know him through the stories of Supriya Chowdhury,

00:36which many of us are unaware of.

00:37Welcome to ETV Bharat.

00:39SUPRIYA CHOWDHURY Thank you.

00:40How are you, sir?

00:41I would like to know that.

00:42SUPRIYA CHOWDHURY I am fine.

00:42Tell me, I am even happier that you are here.

00:46I am also happy to be here.

00:50So, what I will say first is that actress Supriya Chowdhury,

00:53artist Supriya Chowdhury, along with her,

00:57Mahanao Kuttam Kumar,

00:58Sangini Bandhu,

01:00Sevika,

01:01Supriya Chowdhury.

01:02I will get to know all of this through you.

01:04Supriya Chowdhury, it's nice to meet you.

01:06SUPRIYA CHOWDHURY Supriya Chowdhury,

01:08the one who was very familiar with me,

01:10she is not.

01:11She is a little older than me,

01:13and there are other things as well.

01:14But I would like to start with an incident.

01:16Once, on the birthday of Hrithik Ghatak,

01:19in Bodhai TV,

01:22there was an ashram.

01:25Supriya was coming there.

01:28She came a little later,

01:29just 2-3 minutes later,

01:31but she came with a lot of difficulty,

01:32saying that I am only for Hrithik Ghatak,

01:35only for Hrithik Ghatak,

01:36otherwise I wouldn't have come.

01:37Her knee replacement had been operated.

01:41So, she came.

01:43When she came,

01:44everyone told her to take rest for 2-3 minutes.

01:47She was crying, crying very loudly.

01:49She is 78 years old.

01:51So, she was taking rest.

01:55I was sitting next to her.

01:58I was looking at her leg.

02:00She suddenly looked at me.

02:01People were looking at her leg,

02:03and she was laughing a little unimpressed.

02:06I was also very nervous.

02:08I said, I was looking at your leg.

02:11She said, leg?

02:12I said, why leg?

02:13She said, Hrithik Ghatak uses the leg.

02:16I said, why?

02:18She said, to make a goddess statue,

02:20you need a long neck.

02:22Your leg is very long.

02:24I said, I didn't think about it.

02:26She said, you said it in a story.

02:28What do you know about it?

02:30I didn't know about it.

02:32You said, you have written it.

02:34So, the day she came to meet me for the first time,

02:36we were talking,

02:38at Ganga Prasad Mukherjee's house.

02:40I had an appointment at 5 o'clock.

02:42The shooting would get delayed.

02:44I couldn't reach by 5 o'clock.

02:46She shouted,

02:48My name is Siddharth.

02:50I was in a hurry.

02:52I saw a long beard on the other side.

02:54I didn't know when I would come.

02:56I was in a hurry.

02:58I went to my name.

03:00I lost my hair.

03:02I lost my hair.

03:04I didn't know what to do with my hair.

03:06I didn't know what to do with my hair.

03:08I didn't know what to do with my hair.

03:10I took my hair in my hand.

03:12I crossed the road and went home.

03:14She took care of it.

03:16I think she had planned it

03:18from the last scene of Meghithagatara.

03:20from the last scene of Meghithagatara.

03:22from the last scene of Meghithagatara.

03:24The first successful film of Uttam Kumar.

03:26Subriya Devi was also there.

03:28The Asu family.

03:30Subriya Devi was also there.

03:32Subriya Devi was also there.

03:34Subriya Devi was also there.

03:36Subriya Devi was also there.

03:38Subriya Devi was also there.

03:40Subriya Devi was also there.

03:42Subriya Devi was also there.

03:44The main mystery in Subriya.

03:46The main mystery in Subriya.

03:48The main mystery in Subriya.

03:50A sort

03:52introvert,

03:54unknown,

03:56it was in Hollywood.

03:58it was in Hollywood.

04:04She is just so completely

04:06She is just completely

04:08introvert,

04:10The woman who is

04:12NARESH MARKARIAN NARESH MARKARIAN

04:42It is my responsibility to say that till date, the way Bengalis dance,

04:48it is mainly Manipuri, Shantiniketani dance.

04:51Outside of that, if you go to a Biliti dance,

04:55even that is not exactly a Biliti dance.

04:59For that reason, we depend a lot on western cinema or southern cinema.

05:03Shupiya Chowdhury had a huge batik troupe.

05:07When he was in Burma, he did a performance of this dance.

05:12The Prime Minister of Burma at that time had congratulated him.

05:16In that situation, it was highly possible that he was a dancer.

05:21That too, a Bengali actor.

05:23He didn't use it at that time.

05:25He didn't get the opportunity to do that.

05:27I don't know about you, but if you come to my house,

05:29you will be shot dead by a bullet.

05:31In this film, the way Arnold Neumann or Kakee

05:33is portrayed in the film,

05:35the way Shupiya is portrayed in the film,

05:37that is possible only for Shupiya.

05:39And we don't give importance to Shupiya.

05:42We think that, in terms of his body,

05:46he is the only one.

05:49Not only that, when he is introduced to the world,

05:52like Ajay Kaur, Suno Varunari,

05:54he has done an extraordinary performance.

05:58And with Uttam Kumar,

06:00he is not only a great singer,

06:02but he is also a great actor.

06:04Like Jorno Tarje, Prattha Ghat,

06:06in Chirodin's film,

06:08Lal Pathar,

06:10in that film, you will see,

06:12he has an independent existence.

06:14Actually, there is a foreign sociologist,

06:16Andrei Moro,

06:18he said that,

06:20the heroine,

06:22the star,

06:24is recognized as an actor with a biography.

06:27An actor with a biography.

06:30From that point of view, Shupiya is a biography.

06:33You are saying that, Shupiya

06:35had a deep relationship with Uttam Kumar.

06:38This is a proven fact.

06:41And at that time,

06:43Khabarikabad has written

06:45a lot about him.

06:47And we had a lot of expectations

06:49about Shupiya.

06:51How he will show his acting,

06:53I was thinking about that.

06:55I was thinking about that.

06:57How Uttam Kumar's house was destroyed,

06:59how he was arrested,

07:01I was thinking about that.

07:03After seeing that,

07:05when Shupiya was called

07:07for the competition,

07:09I saw him in a different way.

07:11And from the point of view of acting,

07:13I would say that,

07:15the Bengali society had an opinion about Shupiya.

07:17They tried to remove the shadow of Uttam Kumar.

07:20Shupiya is a representative

07:22of Bengali life.

07:24You will see,

07:27Shupiya can't do anything.

07:29She can't do anything.

07:31Shabitri Devi can,

07:33but Shabitri Devi is a brave,

07:35moderate, homely woman.

07:37And the weakness,

07:39the unwillingness,

07:41and the angry look

07:43that I saw in Shupiya's eyes,

07:45after the partition of the country,

07:47we had no other option.

07:49Shupiya's self-determination,

07:52even before Uttam Kumar,

07:54he was an actor.

07:56He was able to show

07:58how much effort he had to make

08:00for his family.

08:02From the point of view of acting,

08:04he was able to show his self-determination.

08:06I think in the middle ages,

08:08there were many big actresses.

08:10At that time,

08:12when Shupiya Choudhury

08:14would give herself up

08:16as a romantic actress,

08:18she would be very happy.

08:20In Migiraka Tala,

08:22she spoke in Dhakai Bengali

08:24which is also possible

08:26if you are a Bengali from Burma.

08:28But in Gita,

08:30the way she spoke in Dhakai Bengali,

08:32the way she spoke in Dhakai Bengali,

08:34the way she spoke in Dhakai Bengali,

08:36the way she spoke in Dhakai Bengali,

08:38I mean, in just two months,

08:40I saw this in Gita,

08:42Shupiya Choudhury was learning Dhakai Bengali.

08:44At that time,

08:46the determination to become an actress,

08:48as a teacher,

08:50and as a teacher,

08:53they were both very determined.

08:55Then in just two months,

08:57the language they practiced,

08:59that language,

09:01it was not some unusual language,

09:03that they were doing an independent film

09:05Basinda Naan.

09:07It was popular in cooking class.

09:09They had a good cooking skill

09:11and they were good at it.

09:13There is no doubt about it.

09:15But, think about it,

09:17as much as Benuddin's cooking skills are popular,

09:19his acting skills are not that popular.

09:21I don't want to talk about corruption, I don't want to talk about listening and understanding.

09:25When a politician and an economist talk about political events,

09:29then they don't talk about politics as much as they talk about political events.

09:33Thank you very much.

09:34Please stay well.

09:37With cameraman Dhiman Haldar,

09:38I am Navneeta Dutta Gupta,

09:39ATV Bharat, Kolkata.

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