Sabitri Chatterjee is an Indian actress who primarily works in Bengali theatre, television, and cinema. She has won the BFJA Awards twice. In 1999, she was conferred with the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for her contributions to Bengali theatre. In 2013, the Government of West Bengal honored her with its highest civilian award, the Banga Bibhushan. In 2014, the Government of India conferred upon her the Padma Shri, the country's fourth-highest civilian award.
Sabitri Chatterjee was born on February 21, 1937 in the small town of Kamalapur in the Comilla District of present-day Bangladesh. She is the youngest among ten sisters. Her father, Sashadhar Chatterjee, belonged to a distinguished Kulin Rarhi Brahmin family from Kanaksar, a Kulin Brahmin village in Bikrampur, and worked as a station master in Indian Railways. During the Partition of Bengal, young Sabitri was sent to the safety of her older, married sister's house in Kolkata, located in Tollygunge—the hub of filmmaking in the city. Growing up in Tollygunge, she often had the opportunity to see film stars of that time.
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