Molina Devi

Acting

Born August 13, 1917, Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India [now India]

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.

Filmography

• 1973Agnibhramar
• 1973Ballad of the Wildflower — Atta Ma (Old)
• 1967Mahashweta — Charusheela - Satinath's aunt
• 1964Anustup Chhanda
• 1964Natun Tirtha
• 1963Saat Pake Bandha — Sukhendu's Aunt
• 1961Necklace
• 1960Uttar Megh
• 1958Bandhu
• 1958Joutuk
• 1958Manmoyee Girls' School
• 1957Chandranath
• 1957Nilachaley Mahaprabhu
• 1956Mahakavi Girish Chandra
• 1956Shilpi
• 1956Shyamali
• 1955Light of the Dusk
• 1955Rani Rashmoni
• 1954A Virtuous Woman
• 1954Atom Bomb
• 1954Grihapravesh
• 1954Naa
• 1954Ora Thakey Odharey
• 1954The Power of Prayer
• 1953A New Journey
• 1953Sharey Chuattar — Rajanibabu's wife
• 1951The Fellow Traveler
• 1950Baikunther Will
• 1950Michael Madhusudhan — Jahnabi Devi
• 1949Determination
• 1949Ultorath
• 1948Priyatama
• 1939Baradidi — Madhabi
• 1939Rajat Jayanti — Supta
• 1938Abhagin — Sandhya
• 1938Abhigyan — Sandhya, Playback Singer
• 1936Grihadaha — Mrinal
• 1933Rajrani Meera — Sunanda
• 1933The Devoted