Lily Chakravarty

Lily Chakraborty is mainly a Bengali actress who has earned accolades for her natural way of acting skill and has acted in many Bollywood films alsoIn large number of films she portrayed character roles but has acted as heroine in several pictures as wellShe has acted as heroine of one Malayalam film Priya in 1970She has acted in Bhojpuri filmsAssamese films etc also She used to act in stage plays and in TV serials Lily Chakraborty was born on August 8 1941 in Dhaka and her Fathers name was Kesab Chandra Chakraborty and Mother was Dipti ChakrabortyHer debut film was as a supporting actress in the film Bhanu Pelo Lottery in 1958She then used to appear continuously in Bengali films like AdwitiyaFuleswariMukhjay ParibarJanani etc In 1973 Gulzar directed a sensitive subject Achanak which told the story of an Army Officer who was very handsome smart and home loving person eagerly returning home after the 1971 war to see his beloved wifeHe was shocked to find that his wife was in love with another personVinod Khanna was the hero as the Army Officer and Lily Chakraborty was the heroine of this filmIftekhar acted as a Police Officer and Farida Jalal as a nurse In 1975 she acted in another film of Gulzar named Mausam which was a super hit filmSanjeev Kumar Sharmila Tagore Om Shiv puri etc acted She acted along with Mallika Sarabhai in Mutti Bhar Chawal75 directed by Surendra Shailaj In the Super hit film Chupke Chupke in which Dharmendra and Sharmila Tagore were the main pair Lily Chakraborty portrayed the character Lata Kumar SrivastavHrishikesh Mukherjee was the director In another famous film of Hrishikesh Mukherjee in 1977 Alaap she acted as one of the heroine as Geeta A Prasad wife of Amitabh Bachchans character Alok Prasad In 1989 she acted in Ek Din Achanak which was directed by Mrinal Sen in which Shabana Azmi was the heroine In 1976 she acted in the Satyajit Rays Bengali film Jana Aranya and later in another Satyajit Ray film Shakha Proshaka In 1970 she was the heroine of Malayalam film Priya which was directed by MadhuIt was the debut venture of Madhu as a directorMadhu acted as the hero of this movie which was adopted from the novel of CRadhakrishnan In 2009 she has acted in the Assamese film Basundhara which got National Award for Best feature film in AssameseIt handled the theme of manelephant conflicts faced by forest range inhabitantsDirectorProducer was Hiren Bora