{{Short description|Bengali theatre and film actress (1923–2017)}} {{Use Indian English|date=February 2016}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = Shobha Sen | image = Shobha Sen - Kolkata 2010-01-16 4215.JPG | alt = | caption = Sen in 2010 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1923|09|17|df=y}} | birth_place = Faridpur, Bengal, British India <!--- according to IMBD, although a better source should be found --->| death_date = 13 August 2017 (aged 93) | death_place = Kolkata, West Bengal, India | other_names = | known_for = | occupation = Actress | spouse = {{marriage|Utpal Dutt |1960|1993|end=died}} }}
'''Shobha Sen''' (17 September 1923 – 13 August 2017; also known as '''Sova Sen''') was an Indian theatre and film actress in Bengali theatre and Bengali cinema.<ref name=grit2004>Anit Mukerjea (28 June 2004). [http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-21763300_ITM "A Woman of Grit"] Asia Africa Intelligence Wire (From The Statesman (India))</ref><ref name="Bethune X">{{cite web |title=Bethune X Distinguished Alumni |url=http://www.bethunex.org.in/disalumni.php |access-date=10 March 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425125338/http://www.bethunex.org.in/disalumni.php |archive-date=25 April 2012 |df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Thespian Shobha Sen passes away |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kolkata/thespian-shobha-sen-passes-away/article19486173.ece |work=The Hindu |date=13 August 2017 |access-date=6 April 2018}}</ref>
==Career== After graduating from Bethune College, she joined Gananatya Sangstha and acted in the lead female role of ''Nabanna''. She joined the Little Theatre Group in 1953-54, which later became the People's Theatre Group. Since then, she has acted in many productions of the group, chief among them are: ''Barricade'', ''Tiner Taloyar'' and ''Titumir''. She has also worked in some films, including ''Ek Adhuri Kahani''.
On 10 April 2010, Sen received the Mother Teresa International Award.<ref name=award2010>{{cite web |url=http://www.nerve.in/news:253500303225 |title=Kapil, Wadekar to receive Mother Teresa International Award |website=Nerve.in |date=9 April 2010 |access-date=14 January 2013}}</ref>
==Personal life== Shobha Sen married two times, and had one child by each marriage. Her first husband, Deba Prasad Sen, was a freedom fighter. They had one son, Udayan Sen, before the marriage ended in divorce. In 1960, she married actor and theatre personality Utpal Dutt, who was six years younger than her. Shobha and Utpal Dutt have one daughter, Dr. Bishnupriya Dutt, who is a professor of theatre history in the School of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}}
==Works==
===Plays=== *''Nabanna'' (1944) *''Barricade'' *''Tiner Taloyar'' *''Titumir'' *''Kallol'' *''Angar''
===Films=== *''Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna'', 1955 film by Prafulla Chakraborty<ref>Viewable: {{YouTube|KD1TsRBZnn8|"The film - Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna - revised file"}}; English subtitles give credits for Kanu Banerji (Sri Ramakrishna, 0:08), Bibhuti Chakravarty (photography, 0:11), Baidyanath Chaterji (producer, 0:30), Pulin Ghosh (stage setting, 0:44), New Theatre Studio (production location, 0:53), Officials of Dakshineshwar Kali Temple (thanks, 1:05), Chabi Bishwas (Mathur, 1:23), Shobha Sen (Sri Ma Saradadevi, 1:23), Kalyani Films (production, 1:38), [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1374741/ Prafulla Chakravarty] (script writer and director, 1:43) (accessed 14 Jan 2013)</ref><ref>See also [http://www.gomolo.com/bhagaban-sree-sree-ramkrishna-movie/13517 ''Bhagaban Sree Sree Ramkrishna''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160514153145/http://www.gomolo.com/bhagaban-sree-sree-ramkrishna-movie/13517 |date=14 May 2016 }} listing at Gomolo.</ref> *''Adarsha Hindu Hotel'', 1957 film *''Khokababur Pratyabartan'', 1960 film by Agradoot *''Bedeni'', unfinished film of Ritwik Ghatak *''Ichhapuran'', 1970 film directed by Mrinal Sen *''Ek Adhuri Kahani'', 1972 film directed by Mrinal Sen *''Jharh'', 1979 film directed by Utpal Dutt *''Thagini'' 1974 film directed by Tarun Majumdar *''Ek Din Pratidin'', 1979 film directed by Mrinal Sen *''Baisakhi Megh'', 1981 film directed by Utpal Dutt *''Paka Dekha'', 1980 film directed by Arabinda Mukherjee *''Pasand Apni Apni'', 1983 Hindi film directed by Basu Chatterjee *''Dekha'', 2001 film directed by Gautam Ghose *''Shadows of Time'', 2004 German film in Bengali directed by Florian Gallenberger *''Abohomaan'', 2010 film directed by Rituporno Ghosh
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb name|0784041}} (as "Sova Sen")
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sen, Shobha}} Category:1923 births Category:2017 deaths Category:Indian theatre directors Category:Bethune College alumni Category:University of Calcutta alumni Category:Indian stage actresses Category:Indian film actresses Category:Bengali Hindus Category:Recipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award Category:Kalakar Awards winners Category:Indian women theatre directors Category:20th-century Indian actresses Category:People from Faridpur District