She received a Best Actress Award nomination for the film Devdas (1955), which was her first Hindi movie. She has acted in 30 of her 60 films with Uttam Kumar.

They went on to become the icons for Bengali dramas for more than 20 years, becoming almost a genre unto themselves. It was a box-office hit and is remembered for launching Uttam-Suchitra as a leading pair. The following year saw her act opposite Uttam Kumar in Sharey Chuattor, a film by Nirmal Dey. Suchitra Sen made her debut in films with Shesh Kothaay in 1952, but it was never released. According to persistent but unconfirmed reports in the Bengali press, her marriage was strained by her success in the film industry. Sen had made a successful entry into Bengali films in 1952, and then a less successful transition into the Hindi movie industry. Her industrialist husband invested greatly in her career and supported her. Suchitra's father-in-law, Adinath Sen, was supportive of her acting career in films after her marriage. She had one daughter, Moon Moon Sen, who is a former actress. Here she married Dibanath Sen, son of wealthy industrialist Adinath Sen, in 1947, at the age of 15 years. The violence of Partition in 1947 brought her family to West Bengal, which was comparably a safe zone for Hindus. She received her formal education in Pabna Government Girls High School. She was a granddaughter of the poet Rajonikant Sen. Sen was their fifth child and second daughter.

Her father, Korunamoy Dasgupta was a headmaster in a local school in Pabna. Suchitra Sen was born on 6 April 1931, in a Bengali Baidya family of Bhanga Bari village of Belkuchi Upazila, now in Sirajganj District. She was catapulted to stardom after she was cast as Vishnupriya by Devaki Kumar Bose in his Bhagaban Shree Krishna Chaitanya (1953). Her first official release was Sukumar Dasgupta's Saat Number Kayedi (1953). In 2012, she was conferred the West Bengal Government's highest honour: Banga Bibhushan. In 2005, she refused the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, the highest cinematic award in India, to stay out of the public eye. From 1979 on, she retreated from public life and shunned all forms of public contact for this she is often compared to Greta Garbo. In 1972, she was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award in India. Sen was the second Indian actress to receive an award at an international film festival when, at the 1963 Moscow International Film Festival, she won the Silver Prize for Best Actress for Saat Pake Bandha.

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