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National Award winning actress and glamour queen of Bengal, Rituparna Sengupata has bagged two more of her prestigious project in Bollywood. She has signed a mega film opposite Punjab da puttar Sunny Deol in Ashwin Choudhery's 'Gurudakshina'. Rituparna has also signed a film with Kalpana Lazmi where she plays the role of a queen, whilst Isha Koppikar plays the role of a courtesan in a woman centric film. Incidentally item girl Masumi Udeshi also has a role in Lajmi's film for which she has reportedly done two backless scenes. Talking about Rituparna, well let's tell you more about Sengupta in her own words: People: My Grandmother & Subhash Chandra Bose. Actors (International): Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise & Gregory Peck Actors (Indian): Amitabh Bachchan, Uttam Kumar, Naseeruddin Shah, Aamir Khan Actresses (International): Julia Roberts, Winona Ryder, Audrey Hepburn. Actresses (Indian): Rekha, Shabana Azmi, Suchitra Sen, Supriya Debi Directors (International): Akiro Kurosawa, Alfred Hitchcock Directors (Indian): Gulzar, Satyajit Ray, Kundan Shah, Ritwik Ghatak. Movies (International): The Sound Of Music, The Last Emperor, Operation Daybreak. Movies (Indian): Masoom, Umrao Jaan, Ijaazat Books: The short stories of Guy De Maupassant & O'Henry, Birds Authors: Daphne Du Maurier, Margaret Mitchell, Jeffrey Archer, Sunil Ganguli Sports: Badminton Sportspeople: Ravi Shastri, Leander Paes, Saurav Ganguli Politicians: None Clothes: Saree, Jeans Colours: Red, Black, Yellow Food: Continental Snacks: Fried Fish with Tartar Sauce Her columns used to appear in Anandalok. She used to write for Bangladesher Hriday . Speaking about her writings, she says, 'I wrote more often when I was younger but now my writing has become more sporadic. Most of my writing, both in Bengali and English is very personal and has not been published.' Rituparna on Theatre: People from a theatre background normally have a lot of mature acting experience and skills. The stage is an incredible training ground and it is the best medium when it comes to communicating with an audience. It is fulfilling for an actor to be on stage because you get an instant response from the audience. It teaches you how to be spontaneous, stage free, makes you comfortable with the lights and on the whole makes you technically very sound and gives you the inherent confidence to look up to something better. On Rituparno Ghosh: Meeting him changed the entire flow of my career. It took me to a place where I had never seen myself before. Up till this time, I had always been seen as a very glamourous actress, but now, people started taking my performance skills very seriously. Rituparno Ghosh changed my image so drastically. He totally deglamourised me in 'Dahan'. The film was very difficult and challenging. Another film that brought out my acting skills to the fullest was 'Paromitar Ek Din'. Mrinal Sen complemented me by saying that my performance was very balanced. Important year, 1998: 42nd National Film Festival of India Award for Best Actress (film-Dahan), conferred by His Excellency The Honorable President of India R.K. Narayanan and Sushma Swaraj.
Little known facts about RD Burman
Pancham introduced the twin track effect in 'Baharon Ke Sapne', which he later used to create the mesmerizing 'Qatra Qatra Miltee Hai' [Ijaazat] and a few more songs. He also pioneered the use of electronic organ in Indian Films with the song 'O Mere Sona Re' [Teesri Manzil] RD was, as Gulzar says, as good a craftsman as a musician. In 'Chura Liya' he used the sound of a spoon hitting a glass For the 'Kitaab' song, 'Master Ji Ki Aa Gayee Chitthhi', he brought some desks from a classroom in the studio while recording and used them as a percussion In 'Abdullah' he used the sound of a bamboo whistle with a balloon tied to it for a song Once to get the sound of raindrops, he spent the whole rainy night in his house's balcony recording the sound he wanted In the song 'O Manjhi Re' from the movie 'Khushboo', RD Burman used bottles with water filled at different levels and created a hollow sound by blowing into them and this sound effect was used with the orchestra During the recording of 'Hum Dono Do Premi' [Ajnabee] the musicians were on strike. So he improvised the song with emptied-out musical interludes and just listen the song Out of his 331 released movies 292 were in Hindi, 31 in Bangla, 3 in Telugu, 2 each in Tamil & Oriya and 1 in Marathi. RD also composed for 5 TV serials in Hindi and Marathi. He also scored a large number of non-film songs in Bangla [also known as Pooja songs or modern songs], which are available in different albums. He did a song for a small documentary film called 'Maa Ki Pukar' too, in 1975. Starting independent music company in 1961 with 'Chote Nawab', he did 331 films and 4 non-film albums. Before coming onto his own, he assisted his father S.D. Burman for long. Dada Burman used Pancham's tune 'Ae meri topee palat ke aa' in 'Fantoosh'. Pancham was only 9 when he composed the tune. For Pyaasa, SD used his son's 'Sar Jo Tera Chakraye', which became a huge hit Amit Kumar, Abhijeet and Shabbir Kumar were given their first breaks by Pancham R.D. Burman made his acting debut in Mehmood's 'Bhoot Bangla'. Later in 'Pyaar Ka Mausam' toohe gave a hilarious performance as Mr. Popat Lal. R.D played the mouth organ for his friends Laxmikant Pyarelal in a song in 'Dosti' and also in a movie for Kalyanji Anandji. The mouth organ played in the song 'Hai Apna Dil To Awara' sung by Hemant Kumar in the film 'Solva Saal' is played by RD Burman himself Both Lata and Bhupinder won a National Award for the song 'Beeti Na Bitaaye Raina' from 'Parichay', and this song was composed in a hotel room in no time R.D. Burman won the Filmfare award only 3 times [Sanam Teri Kasam, Masoom, 1942-A Love Story] while being nominated 16 times for the award