Chhaya Devi

Chhaya Devi
Born(1914-06-03)3 June 1914
Bhagalpur, Bihar and Orissa, Bengal Presidency, British India (present-day Bihar, India)
Died25 April 2001(2001-04-25) (aged 86)
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
OccupationActress
Years active1936–1993

Chhaya Devi (Bengali: ছায়া দেবী; 3 June 1914 – 25 April 2001) was an Indian actress known for her work in Bengali and Hindi cinema. She appeared in over two hundred films for over five decades.

Her first lead role was in Debaki Bose's Bengali film Sonar Sansar (1936). She rose to hall of fame for her role as Rani Lakshmi in Debaki Bose's Vidyapati (1937). Some of her notable films are such as Nirjan Saikate (1963), Hatey Bazarey (1967) and Apanjan (1968) by Tapan Sinha, Saptapadi (1961), Uttar Falguni (1963), Antony Firingee (1967), in Bengali, Alaap (1977) in Hindi, which also starred Amitabh Bachchan.

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