Portrait of Molina Devi

Molina Devi

Acting

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.

Born: August 13, 1917

Place of Birth: Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India [now India]

Filmography

1973
Bonpalashir Padabali

as Atta Ma (Old)

1967
Mahashweta

as Charusheela - Satinath's aunt

1963
Saat Pake Bandha

as Sukhendu's Aunt

1958
1958
1956
1954
1953
Sharey Chuattar

as Rajanibabu's wife

1950
Michael Madhusudhan

as Jahnabi Devi

1939
Baradidi

as Madhabi

1939
1938
Abhagin

as Sandhya

1938
Abhigyan

as Sandhya

1936
Grihadaha

as Mrinal

1933
Rajrani Meera

as Sunanda