Sumita Devi

Acting

Sumita Devi

Born — Died

1936-02-04 — 2004-01-06

Place of birth

Manikganj District, Bengal Presidency, British India

Known for

Acting

Credits

20 titles

Nilufar Begum, better known by her stage name Sumita Devi, was a Bangladeshi actress. In 45 years of her career, she acted in around 200 films and 150 radio and television dramas. She was an artist at the Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra in 1971.

Known for

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10.0

A boy orphaned at birth grows up making his flower garden, trancing a flower fairy of that garden as his illusioned mother. Like a fresh flower, he scents the world inside him apart from the realities of society. But when his flower is plucked eventually by the force of his fate, he discovers friendship, love, passion and finally hatred that drowns him, tearing his petals, under the water.

Flower Child

2000

Devdas poster
3.5

Devdas is a Bengali-language film based on the Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay novel Devdas. It is the first Bangladeshi version of the story and the first colour film version in Bangladesh. It was the first of two versions directed by Chashi Nazrul Islam.

Devdas

1982

Asiya poster
NR

The first film shot and developed in FDC (Film Development Corporation), Asiya was directed by Fateh Lohani. Focusing on the life of a village belle, the asset of the film was its music, composed by legendary folk artiste Abbasuddin Ahmed (Samar Das and Abdul Ahad also composed numbers for the movie after Abbasuddin's demise during the making of the film). Featuring Sumita Devi, Qazi Khaleque and Shaheed, the film received the prestigious President Award of Pakistan in 1961.

Asiya

1957

The Great Hero poster
NR

A regular man steps into petty crimes and gets involved in a series of events that unveils love, morality, dilemma, and fate while he portrays as the 'Mohanayok' (great hero) of his own story.

The Great Hero

1984

Never Came poster
8.0

The emergence of the educated middle-class. Shawkat’s life as a bohemian artist perfectly illustrates the life of an artist in Dhaka during the 60s. When Shawkat’s father loses his job, and eventually dies, the reality of living in a capitalist society as an artist dawns on him

Never Came

1961

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NR

A man leaves the city and takes a job as a forest officer believing society, himself included, to have been unjust to his father.

Beiman

1974

Film credits

1990s · 1 titles

1960s · 8 titles

Never Came poster
8.0

The emergence of the educated middle-class. Shawkat’s life as a bohemian artist perfectly illustrates the life of an artist in Dhaka during the 60s. When Shawkat’s father loses his job, and eventually dies, the reality of living in a capitalist society as an artist dawns on him

Never Came

1961

13 Number Feku Ostagar Lane poster
8.7

In a home, hassle was a daily routine between homeowners and lodgers. The lodgers & their servant was determined that they wouldn't pay their rent. Both of them separately called in their brother & sister to rise courage in quarrel.

13 Number Feku Ostagar Lane

1966

Alibaba poster
NR

A Bengali-language drama directed by Nazrul Islam, starring Inam Ahmed, Sumita Devi, and Sirajul Islam.

Alibaba

1967

Behula poster
NR

Behula is a 1966 Bengali film directed by Zahir Raihan and stars Razzak and Shuchanda as lead pair. It was based on the Hindu mythology of Behula, who fights vehemently to goddess Manasa for her husband Lakhindar's life.

Behula

1966

The Glass Wall poster
NR

The story is about a girl who grows up almost like an orphan in a joint family of two brothers and their families. She has lost her mother (a sister of the brothers) in childhood and her father is a habitual gambler with a bad luck. She develops romance with one of the two cousins in the house.

The Glass Wall

1963

Apon Dulal poster
NR

A Bengali-language film directed by Nazrul Islam, starring Nasima Khan, Azeem, and Inam Ahmed.

Apon Dulal

1966

Sonar Kajol poster
NR

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Sonar Kajol

1962

Sangam poster
6.5

Sangam is a Pakistani Urdu film released in 1964, directed by Zahir Raihan starring Rosy Samad, Khalil, Haroon Rashid and Sumita Devi. This is the first full-length colour movie made in entire Pakistan. This was the fourth film by Zahir Raihan (1935-1972) who later went on to direct more films in Urdu and Bengali during the 1960s. Zahir Raihan became one of the most important filmmakers of East Pakistan, which later became Bangladesh in 1971. Although Sangam was an Urdu film, but most of the cast, playback artistes and crew were from the Bengali-speaking Eastern province.

Sangam

1964