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| name = Bhanumati Devi<br />
| image = <!--Bhanumati Devi.jpg--><br />
| caption =<!--ଭାନୁମତୀ ଦେବୀ--><br />
| birth_name = <br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|1934|5|15|df=y}} <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.orissapost.com/bhanumati-leaves-the-stage/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130216144938/http://www.orissapost.com/bhanumati-leaves-the-stage/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 February 2013 |title=Bhanumati leaves the ‘stage’ &#124; Orissa Post |work=orissapost.com |year=2013 |quote=Born May 15, 1934, in Burma, Bhanumati had returned Orissa |access-date=5 January 2013 }}</ref><br />
| birth_place = [[Sittwe]], [[Rakhine State]], Burma<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|2013|01|04|1934|05|15|df=y}}<br />
| death_place = [[Puri]]<br />
| resting_place = <br />
| nationality = [[India]]n<br />
| occupation = Theater And Cinema Actress<br />
| years_active = 1953–1987<br />
| children = Swarnalata<br />
| parents = Sarati Pattnaik <br> Pattadei<br />
| relatives = <br />
| awards = [[Odisha State Film Awards|Jayadeba Award]] <br />
| imagesize = 150px<br />
| spouse = Harihara Panda<br />
}}<br />
'''Bhanumati Devi''' (15 May 1934 – 4 January 2013) was a [[Burma|Burmese]]-born [[India]]n [[film]] and [[theater]] [[actress]].<ref name=ie>{{cite news |title=Veteran Actor Bhanumati Devi dead |url=http://newindianexpress.com/states/odisha/article1408447.ece |work= [[The Indian Express]] |date=2013-01-05 |access-date=2013-01-16}}</ref><ref name=timesofindia>{{cite news |title=Bhanumati Devi cremated in Puri |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-01-06/bhubaneswar/36173696_1_bhanumati-devi-odia-cinema |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130216074115/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-01-06/bhubaneswar/36173696_1_bhanumati-devi-odia-cinema |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-02-16 |date=2013-01-06 |work=[[The Times of India]] |access-date=2013-01-16}}</ref><br />
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Devi was born in [[British rule in Burma|British Burma]] on 15 May 1934.<ref name=orissatimes>{{cite news|title=Bhanumati leaves the ‘stage’|url=http://www.orissapost.com/bhanumati-leaves-the-stage/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130216144938/http://www.orissapost.com/bhanumati-leaves-the-stage/|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-02-16|work=[[Orissa Times]]|date=2013-01-05|access-date=2013-01-16}}</ref> She moved to [[Puri]], [[Odisha]], [[India]], with her Indian family following [[World War II]].<ref name=timesofindia/><ref name=orissatimes/><br />
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Devi began acting in the theater in 1942 when she was just seven years old.<ref name=orissatimes/> Some of her best reviewed stage roles were in ''Lakhye Hira'' and ''Napahu Rati Namaru Pati’''.<ref name=orissatimes/> Devi appeared at the [[Annapurna Theatre]] in [[Cuttack]] for more than forty years.<ref name=ie/><br />
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She made her film debut in 1954 in ''[[Amari Gann Jhia]]'' when she was nineteen years old.<ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.telegraphindia.com/1121126/jsp/odisha/story_16236996.jsp#.UPk-ZGdP9tZ |title=Arclights out, actresses fight poverty |first=Namita |last=Panda |work=telegraphindia.com |quote=She started her film career at the age of 19 in 1953 with Aama Gaan Jhua, |access-date=18 January 2013 |location=Calcutta, India |date=26 November 2012}}</ref> She was especially active in the [[Cinema of Odisha]] during the 1950s and 1960s. Devi's was cast in a lead role in more than a dozen Indian films.<ref name=ie/> Some of her most prominent roles include her character, Harabou, in the 1966 [[Odia film]], ''[[Matira Manisha]]'', for which she won a [[National Film Award (India)|National Film Award]].<ref name=ie/> Her last film was ''[[Jaydeb]]'', which was released in 1986.<ref name=ie/><br />
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Devi was awarded the [[Sangeet Natak Akademi Award]] from the [[Sangeet Natak Akademi]] in 1985.<ref name=ie/> In 2005, she received the Jaydev Award for Lifetime Achievement at the Odisha State Film Awards.<ref name=ie/><br />
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Bhanumati Devi died at her home on Red Cross Road in [[Puri]], [[Odisha]], [[India]], on 4 January 2013, at the age of 78.<br />
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[[Category:1934 births]]<br />
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[[Category:Indian film actresses]]<br />
[[Category:Indian stage actresses]]<br />
[[Category:Recipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award]]<br />
[[Category:Burmese emigrants to India]]<br />
[[Category:People from Puri district]]<br />
[[Category:Burmese people of Indian descent]]<br />
[[Category:Actresses in Odia cinema]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian actresses]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Burmese actresses]]<br />
[[Category:Burmese film actresses]]<br />
[[Category:Burmese stage actresses]]</div>>Walter Görlitz