Sumita Devi

History

Nilufar Begum, better known by her stage name Sumita Devi, was a Bangladeshi actress. In 45 years of her career, she acted in around 200 films and 150 radio and television dramas. She was an artist at the Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra in 1971.

Profile

Movies

Behula

Behula is a 1966 Bengali film directed by Zahir Raihan and stars Razzak and Shuchanda as lead pair. It was based on the Hindu mythology of Behula, who fights vehemently to goddess Manasa for her husband Lakhindar's life.

The Glass Wall

The story is about a girl who grows up almost like an orphan in a joint family of two brothers and their families. She has lost her mother (a sister of the brothers) in childhood and her father is a habitual gambler with a bad luck. She develops romance with one of the two cousins in the house.

Never Came

Marium

The emergence of the educated middle-class. Shawkat’s life as a bohemian artist perfectly illustrates the life of an artist in Dhaka during the 60s. When Shawkat’s father loses his job, and eventually dies, the reality of living in a capitalist society as an artist dawns on him