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Chhaya Devi is a Actor Indian born on 3 june 1914 at Bhagalpur (Inde)
Chhaya Devi (Bengali: ছায়া দেবী) (1914–2001) was an Indian film actress. She has acted in hundreds of Bengali and Hindi language movies for over five decades and played many character roles. Her first lead role was in Sonar Sansar (1936), directed by Debaki Bose, and later with Bidyapati (1937) she received acclaim and went on to act in notable films like, 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.
She was first cousin of actor Ashok Kumar's wife Shobha Ganguly, thus related to the Ganguly family.
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Nationality Inde
Birth 3 june 1914 at Bhagalpur (Inde)
Death 27 april 2001 (at 86 years) at Kolkata (Inde)
Birth 3 june 1914 at Bhagalpur (Inde)
Death 27 april 2001 (at 86 years) at Kolkata (Inde)
She was first cousin of actor Ashok Kumar's wife Shobha Ganguly, thus related to the Ganguly family.
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Rang Birangi (1983)
, 3hDirected by Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Parveen Babi, Amol Palekar, Deepti Naval, Utpal Dutt, Farooq Sheikh, Chhaya Devi
Rating71%
Ajay Sharma is a very successful entrepreneur who has now transformed into a workaholic and is seen ignoring his wife of seven years, Nirmala. Enter Ravi Kapoor, a friend of Ajay notices Nirmala's loneliness and decides to fix things by rekindling the spark in their life. Thus starts a hilarious comedy involving Ajay's secretary, Anita and her boyfriend, Jeet and a re-enactment of Pati, Patni aur Woh.
Chena Achena (1983)
Actors Soumitra Chatterjee, Amol Palekar, Tanuja, Biplab Chatterjee, Chhaya Devi
Rating66%
Tayaramma Bangarayya (1979)
Directed by Kommineni Seshagiri Rao
Actors Kaikala Satyanarayana, Sowcar Janaki, Madhavi Alladurgam, Chandra Mohan, Ranganath, Sangeetha
Rating65%
The film is about a good-samaritan couple Tayaramma (Janaki) and Bangarayya (Satyanarayana). They try to repair the marriages of young couples. They successfully do this as a social responsibility. When contrasting personalities Aruna (Madhavi) and Vani (Sangeetha) get married and have problems in their married life with husbands Chandra Mohan and Ranganath respectively, Tayaramma and Bangarayya step in.
Srimadhvirata Parvamu (1979)
, 2h35Genres Drama, Action, Historical
Actors Vanisri, Nandamuri Balakrishna, Kaikala Satyanarayana, Dr. Prabhakar Reddy, Mukkamala Krishnamurthy, Mikkilineni
Roles Hidimbi
Rating31%
The film was a picturization of Virata Parva from Mahabharata.
Nadi Theke Sagare (1978)
, 2h15Genres Drama
Actors Mithun Chakraborty, Soumitra Chatterjee, Debashree Roy, Chhaya Devi, Rabi Ghosh, Anup Kumar
Nadi Theke Sagare is an emotional story of a person and his attachment with others.
Arun Barun O Kiranmala (1978)
Genres Fantasy
Actors Sunny Deol, Om Puri, Tarun Kumar, Murali Sharma, Prachi Desai, Soha Ali Khan
Arun, Barun and Kiranmala were orphaned brothers and sisters. One day they went in search of their parents. So they first visited the Jogini Durbar where they were helped with magic equipments like a golden stick etc. Then they went to Maya Puri where they found spirits trapped by the witch of the Maya Puri. After many hurdles they finally killed the witch and helped the fairies to escape. The fairies then promised to tell them about their parents. They were taken for lunch to the Jogini Durbar where the king of Arabia also joined them. It was soon discovered that three children were the children of this king. The five fairies revealed how the sister of the king's wife played tricks and let the three children flow in the river for which the king punished his wife and banished her from the palace. Finally there was a happy reunion and Arun, Barun & Kiranmala found their parents and all lived happily ever after.
Alaap (1977)
, 2h41Directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Genres Musical, Romance
Actors Amitabh Bachchan, Rekha, Asrani, Farida Jalal, Om Prakash, Chhaya Devi
Rating65%
Widowed Advocate Triloki Prasad (Om Prakash) lives a wealthy lifestyle in a small town in India with two sons, Advocate Ashok (Vijay Sharma) married to Geeta (Lily Chakravarty) and Alok (Amitabh Bachchan) who has yet to settle down in their law firm. Alok is fond of music and does enroll in classes run by Pandit Jamuna Prasad (A. K. Hangal). On his return, his father asks him to accompany Ashok to their law firm and start learning to practice, which he agrees to do. Then one day Triloki finds out that Alok has not been at the firm but is instead spending time in the local slums with a former courtesan named Sarju Bai Banaraswali (Chhaya Devi). He cautions Alok about this, but Alok continues to visit Sarju Bai. When Mr. Gupta (Yunus Parvez) approaches Triloki about taking possession & demolishing the slum area, Triloki readily agrees and with his expertise manages to sway the Court's decision in Gupta's favor. As a result, Sarju Bai and others are rendered homeless. With the fee he receives from Gupta, he asks Alok to purchase a used car for himself. But Alok purchases a horse-carriage and decides to drive it himself to make a living. His enraged father asks him to leave the house. When Triloki finds out that Alok is doing well in his work, he decides to hire motor coaches to transport people at a much cheaper price, thus cutting off Alok's earnings and perhaps forcing him to reconsider his decision, apologize, and return home to his father.
Jyothi (1976)
Directed by K. Raghavendra Rao
Actors Jayasudha Kapoor, Gummadi Venkateswara Rao, Chhaya Devi, Giri Babu, J. V. Somayajulu, Krishna Kumari
Rating27%
Jyothi (Jayasudha), a teenage girl who is in love with Ravi (Murali Mohan), suddenly marries Rajayya (Gummadi Venkateswara Rao), an old man who is about her father's age. Everyone thinks she married him for the old man's property that she inherits after the marriage, but truth is different. The secret behind this unexpected marriage forms the rest of the gripping family story.
Tata Manavadu (1973)
Directed by Dasari Narayana Rao
Actors Samarla Venkata Ranga Rao, Anjali Devi, Potti Veeraiah, Kaikala Satyanarayana, Raja Babu, Rajasulochana
Rating78%
Rangaiah (Ranga Rao) is a labourer. He is determined to educate his son Anand (Satyanarayana) and make him a doctor and marry Anand with his sister's daughter Suguna (Chandrakala) as promised to his sister on death-bed. Anand promises to marry Suguna and makes her pregnant. He loves a rich girl Geeta (Rajasulochana) and marries her. They neglect and insult their parents. Suguna gives birth to a daughter, Laxmi. Geeta gives birth to a son, Giri (Raja Babu). Rangaiah becomes blind and Seetammma works as housemaid. Giri and Rani (Gummadi daughter-Vijaya Nirmala) are classmates The grandson grows up and with the help of Rani teaches them lesson.
Papam Pasivadu (1972)
Genres Drama, Thriller, Adventure
Actors Samarla Venkata Ranga Rao, Devika, Nagesh, Kaikala Satyanarayana, Suryakantam, Raja Babu
Rating77%
Venugopal (Ranga Rao) and Janaki (Devika) are loving couple. They get a baby boy with lot of happiness in their heart. During the childhood, he is attacked by Tuberculosis. He was planned to get the best treatment. According to the advice of their family doctor (Nagaiah) and send him to Europe with pilot (Nagesh). The plane crashes in a desert due to sudden heart attack to the pilot. The boy has to face several obstacles and finally survives to meet the parents happily.
Zindagi Zindagi (1972)
Directed by Tapan Sinha
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Waheeda Rehman, Ramesh Deo, Farida Jalal, Sunil Dutt, Ashok Kumar, Iftekhar
Rating61%
Sampoorna Ramayanam (1971)
Directed by Bapu
Themes Films based on mythology, Films about religion
Actors Shobhan Babu, Chandrakala, Gummadi Venkateswara Rao, Chittor V. Nagaiah, Kaikala Satyanarayana, Samarla Venkata Ranga Rao
Roles Mandhara
Rating82%
The story is the complete Ramayana from the birth of Lord Rama to his Pattabhisheka after completing his exile.
Pratham Kadam Phool (1970)
, 1h10Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Soumitra Chatterjee, Tanuja, Subhendu Chatterjee, Chhaya Devi, Bhanu Bandyopadhyay
Roles Sukanto's mother
Rating68%
Sukanta meets kakali in a library reading room and discovers his passion for her though lrejected initially by Kakali. Prantas wife i.e the sister in law of Sukanta has susected the truth yet she does not dare to encourage the affair since Sukanta is not established. Again on another day both Kakali and Sukanta become stranded in a lift of the library for long hours for the want of power. Here they come closer to each other now they start meeting frequently here and there. Once they enjoy a picnic together along with the friends of sukanta .One day sukanta comes to the house of kakali but her parents do not approve of her. After a long interval Sukanta meets Baren his school friend who is now very well off. Baren works in a European firm in a high post He has his own four wheeler and a handsome flat where he stays with his widowed mother. When Sukanta visits her Baren's mother expresses her wish to give her son a pleasant bride. Kakali one day comes to the house of sukanta. Her maiden appearance moved every single member of Sukantas family. In fact mother Sukanta want them to marry. The parents of Kakali refuse. So kakali left the house and property of her father . Kakali joins Baren as a receptionist. And trouble starts in Sukanta's family. Sukanta the research scolar misjudges the relation of Kakali and Baren .Kakali leaves one day after a heated exchange and takes. The nephew of Sukanta who loves his aunt misses her .He goes missing. . In the meantime Baren comes to everything from Kakali and he takes the initiative to solve. Ultimately Kakali comes to the police station where a happy reunion takes place.
The Fiancee (1969)
Directed by Ajoy Kar
Genres Drama
Actors Soumitra Chatterjee, Moushumi Chatterjee, কমল মিত্র, Gita Dey, Chhaya Devi, Bijon bhattacharya
Rating83%
Apanjan (1968)
, 2h15Directed by Tapan Sinha
Genres Drama
Actors Chhaya Devi, Rabi Ghosh, Sumita Sanyal, Bhanu Bandyopadhyay, Chinmoy Roy
Roles Anandamoyee
Rating80%
Anandamoyee (Chhaya Devi) is a childless widow in a Bengal village. One day a man turns up, claiming to be her nephew. He takes her to live with him and his family in Calcutta. In the city, she experiences something akin to culture shock, as she encounters children begging on the streets and day-to-day violence. She finds the idea of women working at office jobs very strange, and even wearing any kind of footwear is new for her. The couple with whom she lives want her to look after their child, which she does gladly since they are her "own people". However, eventually she realises that she is being exploited as an unpaid nanny. She moves out to a downbeat area of the city, to look after two street children. They are part of the 'family' of Robi (Swaroop Dutta), the leader of a gang of educated young men who are active participants in the street violence that engulfs the city. With these outsiders, Anandamoyee feels a sort of kinship, and even a sense of being in a family, which she never enjoyed with her actor husband. Robi's gang is always at daggers drawn with a rival gang led by Chheno (Samit Bhanja). The two gangs are enlisted by cynical politicians, to serve their own ends. The gang war continues, albeit with an ostensibly political colour, reaching a melodramatic climax, with a tragic resolution.