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{{short description|Actress, thespian, radio performer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Gita Dey
| image = Gita Dey.jpg
| caption =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1931|8|5|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2011|1|17|1931|8|5|df=y}}
| death_place = Kolkata, West Bengal, India
| nationality = Indian
| other_names = Gita maa
| children = 3
| years_active = 1938–2008
| occupation = [[Actress]]
}}
'''Gita Dey''' (5 August 1931 – 17 January 2011) was an Indian actress in [[Cinema of West Bengal|Bengali cinema]], theatre and [[Jatra (Bengal)|Bengali folk theater]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cinestaan.com/people/gita-dey-29486|title=Gita Dey movies, filmography, biography and songs - Cinestaan.com|website=Cinestaan|access-date=26 May 2019}}</ref> She became a stage artist at the age of 6 years. She came to the film industry in 1943. Her first film release was ''[[Ahuti]]'' (1941) as a child actress. She acted in over two hundred [[Bengali language]] films and over two thousand stage shows. She acted in the movie ''[[Teen Kanya]]'' under the direction of [[Satyajit Ray]] and Rittik Ghatak's ''[[Meghe Dhaka Tara]], [[Subarnarekha (1962 film)|Subarnarekha]], [[Komal Gandhar]], [[Kato Ajanare (film)|Kato Ajanare]]''. She also acted in Hindi movies such as ''[[Parineeta (2005 film)|Parineeta]]'' (2005) with [[Vidya Balan]] and [[Sanjay Dutt]] and other movies.<ref>[http://www.indiablooms.com/NewsDetailsPage/newsDetails170111c.php Gita Dey dies at 79] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110119012330/http://www.indiablooms.com/NewsDetailsPage/newsDetails170111c.php |date=19 January 2011 }}</ref> She was associated with All India Radio for a long time doing Shruti Natok. She received the Presidential Award for Lifetime Achievement from [[Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam]] and many other awards during her lifetime.

==Early life==
She started as an actress in the [[Cinema of West Bengal|Bengali film industry]] based in Kolkata's [[Tollygunge]] since 1938. Her first role was as a child artiste when she was six years old in Ahutee directed by [[Dhiren Ganguly]].<ref name=Blooms>[http://www.indiablooms.com/NewsDetailsPage/newsDetails170111c.php Thespian Gita Dey dies at 79] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110119012330/http://www.indiablooms.com/NewsDetailsPage/newsDetails170111c.php |date=19 January 2011 }}</ref>

==Later career==
She has been associated with [[All India Radio]] since 1954, and enacted character roles in radio plays. However, her last play was ''Badsahi Chaal'' (1996), which was directed by Ganesh Mukherjee, and was staged at the Rangana theatre in north Kolkata.

She acted diverse roles in a wide variety of films, and is known for her versatile outlook in her many roles. Her acting even caught the attention of the legendary [[Laurence Olivier]].<ref>[http://www.screenindia.com/old/20001222/reins.htm Transition from a child star to character artiste]</ref>

Proficient in both negative and comic roles, Dey was brilliant in the role of torn and scheming mother in [[Ritwik Ghatak]]'s ''[[Meghe Dhaka Tara]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.screenindia.com/old/20001222/reins.htm|title=Gita Dey – Transition from a child star to character artiste|last=Mukerjea|first=Anit|work=[[Screen (magazine)|Screen]]|accessdate=4 May 2010}}</ref>

Throughout her long career, she worked with directors like [[Sisir Bhaduri]], [[Ritwik Ghatak]], [[Debaki Bose]] and [[Satyajit Ray]]. She also acted in a [[Bollywood]] musical based on [[Sharat Chandra Chatterji|Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay]]'s ''[[Parineeta (2005 film)|Parineeta]]'', starring [[Saif Ali Khan]] and [[Vidya Balan]].<ref name=Blooms />

Though ailing, she went on acting and won applause in recent films like ''[[Tolly Lights]]'' and ''[[Chirodini Tumi Je Amar]]''.

Dey died on 17 January 2011 in Kolkata, aged 79.

==Selected filmography==
*''[[Meghe Dhaka Tara]] (1960)''
*''[[Teen Kanya]] (1961)''
*''Dampati''
*''[[Indrani (film)]] (1958)''
*''Nauka Dubi''
*''[[Malyadan]]''(1971)
*''Abhaya o Srikanta''
*''Komol Gandher (1961)''
*''Abhaya o Srikanta''
*''Dainee (1961)''
*''Kathin Maya (1961)''
*''Kanchanmulya (1961)''
*''Sathi Hara (1961)''
*''Kancher Swarga (1962)''
*''Shubba Drishti (1962)''
*''Bandhan (1962)''
*''[[Saat Paake Bandha]] (1963)''
*''Dui Bari (1963)''
*''Chhaya Surya (1963)''
*''Nishipadma''
*''Sesh Porjonto (1969)''
*''[[Bagh Bondi Khela]] (1975)''
*''[[Datta (film)]]'' (1976)
*''[[Surya Sakhi]] (1981)''
*''Dui Bhai''
*''Ahoban''
*''Barnochora''
*''Pita Putro''
*''[[Mouchak]]''
*''[[Hirer Shikal]] (1988)''
*''[[Mahaprithibi]]'' (1991)
*''[[Tolly Lights]]''
*''[[Santan (1999 film)|Santan]]'' (1999)
*''[[Chirodini Tumi Je Amar]]''
* ''[[Kathavasheshan]]'' ([[Malayalam film|Malayalam]])
* ''[[Parineeta (2005 film)|Parineeta]]''

==Awards==
For her lifetime contributions to Bengali cinema, in 1998 she received a star medal from the [[University of Calcutta]] from the then [[Governor of West Bengal]] [[Saiyid Nurul Hasan]].
She also got the presidential award for lifetime contribution to Bengali cinema and theater.

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