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Umasashi was born on 1915 <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://moviechat.org/nm0880810/Umasashi#discover |title=Umasashi Discussion |website=moviechat.org}}</ref> in a poor Brahmin family of Calcutta. Her father Nilmani Chattopadhyay's ancient home was in [[Dhaka]], East Bengal, British India but he later settled in Calcutta. He was a [[Kirtan]] artist and sometimes act as a [[Jatra (theatre)|Jatra]] artist in a local Jatra group. As a child Uma received a very little formal education in a local school due to poverty.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10182-3073795/umasashi-in-biographical-summaries-of-notable-people |title=Umasashi |website=myheritage.com}}</ref> She received dance and music training from the age of four. Miss Satkari Ganguly was her first music and dance teacher. As Satkari Ganguly was an actor she took her on stage where she started work as a group dancer in theatre like Minerva, Alfred and Russa. Soon she played minor roles in the stage and became a part of a touring Jatra group from Kolkata to different parts of undivided Bengal like Chittagong, Cox's Bazar etc. She was a perfectionist at her time. She had appointed several Hindi, Urdu and English tutor for perfect pronunciation of those languages. After her Debut in Bangabala a silent movie she had to quit the stage because the authorities would not allow their paid staff to work in films.

Umasashi married Mr Guru Prasad Dev an attorney by profession and a member of the [[Shobhabazar Rajbari]] on the top of her career. In those days it was not easy for a glamorous actress to become a member of such a conservative family.  So she had to wait for quite some time to allowed into the ancestral house of the Deb's. Her husband was already married and Umasashi had to share the house of her husband with his first wife. There was another problem to left the glamour world as she had a contact with the [[New Theatres]] which was not over yet. But the proprietor of [[New Theatres]] [[Birendranath Sircar|Mr B.N. Sircar]] was very kind hearted and gladly given the necessary permission and his blessings to the newly wed couple. Later she becomes a mother of three sons and a daughter. After her marriage she mostly remained outside the film industry. At an advanced age she gives interviews to the print and electronic media for occasionally and attended film functions for twice.{{Citation needed|date=February 2022}}