Bengali Actress Sreelekha Mitra is well known for her roles in Bengali movies and TV serials.
Sreelekha Mitra has acted in several notable movies, including:
· Hothat Brishti (1998)
· Kantatar (2006)
· Aschorjo Prodip (2013)
· Swade Ahlade (2015)
· Choukath (2015)
· Rainbow Jelly (2018)
· Mayanagar (2021)
She is an actress, known for Once Upon a Time in Calcutta (2021), Rainbow Jelly (2018) and Apon Holo Por (2000).
She worked in Basu Chatterjee's Hothat Brishti (1998).
Initially she worked in Taj Hotel, Kolkata.
In Jun 2020 claiming that she never had a significant elevation in her career even after the remarkable success of Hothat Brishti (1998) since she never reciprocated to the love proposal of Prosenjit Chatterjee who then had a monopolistic foothold in Bengali cinema.
She said that Rituparna Sengupta rode the crest of her career so easily as she had a love affair with Chatterjee in the late 1990s.
Mee too allegation
On 23 August 2024, in the wake of Hema Committee report, Sreelekha Mitra levelled accusations against Indian filmmaker Ranjith at Ernakulam Town Police Station. The complaint alleges that in 2009, during discussions about a film role, Ranjith made inappropriate physical advances towards her (Hindustan Times Sep 1, 2024).
The actor also claimed that she had been kept out of work in the industry for years. In a separate Facebook post, she wrote, “I was effectively banned for the last ten years by the TMC and the so-called artists who rule the industry.”
Swarup Biswas, brother of former West Bengal sports minister Arup Biswas, was arrested on Thursday night by officers from New Alipore police station following a complaint filed by a makeup artist from Kolkata’s Regent Park area.
According to police, the woman alleged that she had been without work for nearly two years and was asked to pay money when she approached for job opportunities. She further claimed that she was threatened when she failed to meet the demand (News18).
Sreelekha Mitra was married to Shiladitya Sanyal. They married in 2003 but separated after ten years in 2013.
Sreelekha Mitra had friendship with Ferdous Ahmed, the popular actor from Bangladesh! She had suggested Ferdous's name to Basu Chatterjee for the film ‘Hothat Brishti’.
When TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee was allegedly attacked in Sonarpur, South 24 Parganas, she had remarked “KARMA”.
ALT Sreelekha Mitra in Anant Ambani’s wedding