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| name = Uma Dasgupta<br />
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| birth_date = {{Birth Date|1941|9|12|df=y}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Bengal_Presidency#Districts_of_Bengal_Presidency_1937–1947|Pabna]], Bengal, British India {{small|(present-day [[Pabna]], Bangladesh)}}<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|2024|11|18|1941|9|12|df=yes}}<br />
| death_place = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]] <br />
| known_for = [[Pather Panchali]]<br />
| occupation = Actress<br />
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| alma_mater = [[Jogamaya Devi College]]<br />
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'''Uma Sen''' (née '''Dasgupta'''; 12 September 1941 – 18 November 2024) was an Indian [[Bengalis|Bengali]] actress who acted the role of 'Durga' in [[Satyajit Ray|Satyajit Ray's]] [[Bengali language|Bengali]]-language drama film ''[[Pather Panchali]]'' in 1955.<ref name="thehindu">{{cite news |title=Actor Uma Dasgupta, one of 'Pather Panchali's pivotal characters, dies at 84 |url=https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/actor-uma-dasgupta-one-of-pather-panchalis-pivotal-characters-dies-at-84/article68882307.ece |access-date=19 November 2024 |website=[[The Hindu]]}}</ref><br />
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== Background ==<br />
Uma Dasgupta graduated from [[Jogamaya Devi College]], an affiliate of the [[University of Calcutta]]<ref>{{cite web |title=History of the College |url=http://jogamayadevicollege.org/history.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726210012/http://www.jogamayadevicollege.org/history.htm |archive-date=26 July 2011 |access-date=19 November 2024}}</ref> She was a school teacher by profession from 1984 to 2000 in nursery and primary section of [[Jadavpur Vidyapith]],<ref name="abp">{{cite web |date=19 November 2024 |title=উমা চলে গেলেও 'দুর্গা'র মৃত্যু নেই,স্মৃতির কোলাজ বুনল স্কুল |url=https://mepaper.anandabazar.com/imageview_80800_6524291_4_71_19-11-2024_8_i_1_sf.html |access-date=19 November 2024 |website=[[Anandabazar Patrika]] |archive-date=13 December 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241213205826/https://mepaper.anandabazar.com/imageview_80800_6524291_4_71_19-11-2024_8_i_1_sf.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Kolkata.<br />
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Sen died on 18 November 2024, at the age of 84 in her house in Kolkata. She was cremated at the Keoratala crematorium, Kolkata on the same day. Her daughter is Srimayee Sen Ram.<ref name="spd2">{{cite web |date=19 November 2024 |title=তথ্যে ভুল রয়েছে', 'অপরাজিত' দেখে অভিযোগ পথের পাঁচালীর 'দুর্গা'র মেয়ের |url=https://www.sangbadpratidin.in/entertainment/cinema/daughter-of-pather-panchali-actress-uma-dasgupta-slams-aparajita-for-misinformation/ |access-date=19 November 2024 |website=[[Sangbad Pratidin]]}}</ref><br />
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== Pather Panchali ==<br />
{{Main|Pather Panchali}}<br />
''[[Pather Panchali]]'', the Bengali drama film was adapted from [[Pather Panchali (novel)|the novel of the same name]] by [[Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay]]. Satyajit Roy was looking for someone who could play the character of Durga. At the age of 12, while studying in eighth standard in a school, Uma was chosen for the character Durga by Satyajit Ray with the help of Ashish Burman, the Assistant Headmaster of her school <ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050315/asp/calcutta/story_4492664.as|date=15 March 2005 |title=Golden memories of 50 years ago|access-date=19 November 2024 |website=The Telegraph|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161107202536/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050315/asp/calcutta/story_4492664.as |archive-date=7 November 2016 }}</ref> It was Uma's first film, as it was also for [[Subir Banerjee]], who portrayed the title character of ''[[The Apu Trilogy]]'' in this installment of the trilogy. <ref name="Robinson1989">{{cite book|last=Robinson|first=Andrew|title=Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye|url=https://archive.org/details/satyajitrayinner00robi_0|url-access=registration|year=1989|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-06946-6|pages=[https://archive.org/details/satyajitrayinner00robi_0/page/79 79]}}</ref><br />
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