Person
Molina Devi
Acting · 1917–1977 · Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India [now India]
Biography
Molina Devi (13 August 1917 — 13 August 1977) was an Indian Bengali actress of Bengali and Hindi film and theatre. As an actress, she played a wide variety of parts, later frequently playing matronly parts, especially Rani Rashmoni, patroness of the 19th-century Bengali mystic Sri Ramakrishna. She acted in several dozen films, mostly in Bengali and Hindi. With actor Gurudas Banerjee, she also directed a Calcutta-based theatre troupe, M. G. Enterprises.
Known for
Determination
1949
The Code of Secrecy
Rajanibabu's wife
Nilachaley Mahaprabhu
1957
Mahashweta
Charusheela - Satinath's aunt
Manmoyee Girls' School
1958
The Devoted
1933
Rani Rashmoni
1955
Rajrani Meera
Sunanda
Chandranath
1957
The Power of Prayer
1954
Filmography
- 1973Agnibhramar
- 1973Ballad of the WildflowerAtta Ma (Old)
- 1967MahashwetaCharusheela - Satinath's aunt
- 1964Anustup Chhanda
- 1964Natun Tirtha
- 1963Saat Pake BandhaSukhendu's Aunt
- 1961Necklace
- 1960Uttar Megh
- 1958Joutuk
- 1958Manmoyee Girls' School
- 1958Bandhu
- 1957Chandranath
- 1957Nilachaley Mahaprabhu
- 1956Shilpi
- 1956Shyamali
- 1956Mahakavi Girish Chandra
- 1955Rani Rashmoni
- 1955Light of the Dusk
- 1954The Power of Prayer
- 1954The Housewarming Day
- 1954A Virtuous Woman
- 1954They Live on the Other Side
- 1954Naa
- 1954Atom Bomb
- 1953A New Journey
- 1953The Code of SecrecyRajanibabu's wife
- 1951The Fellow Traveler
- 1950Michael MadhusudhanJahnabi Devi
- 1950Baikunther Will
- 1949Ultorath
- 1949Determination
- 1948Priyatama
- 1939BaradidiMadhabi
- 1939Rajat JayantiSupta
- 1938AbhaginSandhya
- 1938AbhigyanSandhya
- 1936GrihadahaMrinal
- 1933Rajrani MeeraSunanda
- 1933The Devoted
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