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{{Infobox person | name = Tripti Mitra | image = <!-- just the filename, without the File: or Image: prefix or enclosing [[brackets]] --> | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Tripti Bhaduri | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1925|10|25}} | birth_place = [[West Dinajpur district|Dinajpur]], [[Bengal]], [[British India]] | death_date = 24 May 1989<!-- {{Death date and age|df=yes|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} or {{Death-date and age|df=yes|Month DD, YYYY|Month DD, YYYY}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place =Kolkata | nationality =Indian | known_for ="Bohurupee" |spouse=[[Sombhu Mitra]]| awards = [[Padma Shri]] in 1971| occupation = theatre actor, director | children= [[Shaoli Mitra]]}}<br />
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'''Tripti Mitra''' (née '''Tripti Bahaduri'''; 25 October 1925 – 24 May 1989) was a popular [[India]]n actress of [[Bengali language|Bengali]] theatre and films, and wife of [[Sombhu Mitra]], noted theatre director, with whom she co-founded pioneering theatre group ''Bohurupee'' in 1948. She has acted in films like ''[[Jukti Takko Aar Gappo]]'' and ''[[Dharti Ke Lal]]''.<br />
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She was awarded [[Sangeet Natak Akademi Award]], the highest Indian recognition given to practicing artists, given by [[Sangeet Natak Akademi]], India's National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama in 1962 for Theatre acting, and the [[Padma Shri]] in 1971 by [[Government of India]] in Arts field.<br />
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==Early life and education==<br />
Tripti Mitra was born in Dinajpur ([[British India]]) on 25 October 1925. Her father was Ashutosh Bhaduri and mother was Shailabala Debi. In Dinajpur Minor School she studied up to class six, then she came to Kolkata and got admission in Pyaricharan School. After passing [[Higher Secondary Examination]] from that school, she got admission in [[Ashutosh College]]. But she could not complete her studies since she got a job. She married [[Sombhu Mitra]] in December, 1945. She has a daughter [[Shaoli Mitra]], who is also an actress and director.<ref name="Tripti Mitra Gomolo Article">{{cite web|title=Tripti Mitra Gomolo Article|url=http://www.gomolo.com/tripti-mitra-biography/15204/708910|publisher=Gomolo|access-date=6 March 2012}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Tripti Mitra had been acting in theatre since her teens. She first acted in her cousin [[Bijon Bhattacharya]]'s play ''Agun'' (Fire) in 1943. After watching her stage performance in noted [[Indian People's Theatre Association|IPTA]] play, ''[[Nabanna (play)|Nabanna]]'' (Harvest) based on [[Bengal famine of 1943]], director [[Khwaja Ahmad Abbas]] took her to Bombay to act in Gana Natya Sangha’s film ''[[Dharti Ke Lal]]'' in 1943, partly based on the play. Her first Bengali film was ''Pathik'' in 1953, the film was directed by [[Debaki Bose|Debaki Kumar Basu]]. She also acted in [[Ritwik Ghatak]]'s last film, ''[[Jukti Takko Aar Gappo]]'' (1974).<br />
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In 1948, Shombhu and Tripti Mitra founded their own theatre group named [[Bohurupee]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Bohurupee|url=http://dramafest-smca.8k.com/groups.html|access-date=8 March 2012}}</ref> She acted in innumerable plays mostly along with her husband [[Sombhu Mitra]],a colossus in the field of theatre, to become one of the most legendary beings of Bengali theatre, most famous for her role as Nandini, the protagonist of Rabindranath Tagore's ''[[Rakta Karabi]]''. She also acted in ''Jago Hua Savera'', a 1959 Urdu movie produced in Dhaka, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), based on a Manik Bandopadhya's classic novel ''Padma Nadir Majhi''.<br />
Tripti Mitra died on 24 May 1989.<br />
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==Filmography==<br />
*''[[Jukti Takko Aar Gappo]]'' (1974)<br />
*''Charankabi Mukunda Das'' (1968)<br />
*''Seba'' (1967)<br />
*''Kanchanranga'' (1964)<br />
*''Suryasnan'' (1962)<br />
*''[[Manik (1961)|Manik]]''<br />
* ''[[The Day Shall Dawn]]'' (1959)<br />
*''Shubha Bibaha'' (1959)<br />
*''Asha'' (1956)<br />
*''Joy Maa Kali Boarding'' (1955)<br />
*''Rickshaw-Wala'' (1955)<br />
*''[[Moyla Kagaj]]'' (1954)<br />
*''Pathik'' (1953)<br />
*''Bodhodoy'' (Short) (1951)<br />
*''[[Gopinath (film)|Gopinath]]'' (1948)<br />
*''[[Dharti Ke Lal]]'' (1946)<ref>{{IMDb name|0080153|Tripti Bhaduri}}</ref><br />
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===Plays===<br />
*Agun<br />
*Nabanna<br />
*Jabanbandi<br />
*Gopinath<br />
*Ulukhagra<br />
*Chaar Adhyay (based on [[Rabindranath Tagore]]'s novella of the same name)<br />
*[[Rakta Karabi]] (Tagore's "Red Oleander")<br />
*Raja (Tagore's "The King of the dark chamber")<br />
*Baki Itihaas<br />
*Daakghor (she produced and directed Tagore's [[The Post Office (play)]])<br />
*Sutorang<br />
*Aparajita<br />
*Visarjan<ref>{{cite book|last1=Dharwadker|first1=Aparna Bhargava|title=Theatres of independence : drama, theory, and urban performance in India since 1947|date=2005|publisher=Univ. of Iowa Press|location=Iowa City|isbn=0877459614|pages=490 pages|edition=[Online-Ausg.]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mLQaz-12Eo8C&q=bisarjan+bohurupee+tripti+mitra&pg=PA407|access-date=13 February 2018}}</ref><br />
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==Awards==<br />
*[[Sangeet Natak Akademi Award]] in 1962<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sangeetnatak.org/sna/awardeeslist.htm|title=SNA: List of Akademi Awardees|publisher=[[Sangeet Natak Akademi]] Official website|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217185616/http://www.sangeetnatak.org/sna/awardeeslist.htm|archive-date=17 February 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref><br />
*[[Padma Shri]] in 1971<ref>{{cite web|title=Padma Awards Directory (1954-2009)|publisher=[[Ministry of Home Affairs (India)|Ministry of Home Affairs]]|url=http://www.mha.nic.in/pdfs/LST-PDAWD.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510095705/http://www.mha.nic.in/pdfs/LST-PDAWD.pdf|archive-date=10 May 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref><br />
*[[Kalidas Samman]] by [[Madhya Pradesh Government]] in 1989<ref>{{cite web |title=Kalidas Award Holders (Theatre)|url=http://www.mpculture.in/html/kalidasaward-theater.asp |publisher=Department of Culture, [[Government of Madhya Pradesh]] }}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Bengali theatre]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{IMDb name|0593974}}<br />
{{Bengali Theatre}}<br />
{{Padma Shri Award Recipients in Art}}<br />
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