Jaya Seal Ghosh (née Seal) is an Indian actress and dancer.[2] She was trained in Bharatanatyam from an early age by Guru Indira P. P. Bora for five years.she was also acting in Assamnee television and plays with Assamnee theatre personalities from NSD like Dulal Roy and Baharul Islam (actor) who inspired her. She studied at the National School of Drama in New Delhi where she had completed her three-year course in the year 1997.

Jaya Seal
Born
NationalityIndian
Occupation(s)Actress, dancer
Years active1999–present
SpouseBickram Ghosh[1]

Jaya went on to act in 19 feature films in 8 languages, and appeared in several ad commercials. Some of the .Jaya's films received National and International Awards in Venice and Pusan Film Festivals. Among her best films, she holds Uttara, by Buddhadeb Dasgupta. She was nominated for best actress in the year 2000 for the film Uttara. She was also seen in ‘Kahani Ghar Ghar Ki’ in 2004. Some of her well-known films are Chal & Xcuse Me (Hindi), Penninmanathaithottu (Tamil) opposite Prabhu Deva, Samurai (Tamil) opposite Vikram, Bahala Channa Gide (Kannada) opposite Shivraj Kumar, Magunido Sagodo (Odiya) which won the National Award for best Odiya film in 2003, Thilaadanam (Telugu) Which won National Award for best debut director to the late 6 time National and International award-winning Film Critic and Director K.N.T. Sastry and also won best foreign film and New Currents Award award in Pussan film festival in 2003, Shesh Thikana (Bengali) etc. She has worked in more than thirty ad commercials like Dettol, Colgate, Clinic plus oil n shampoo, Sun drop oil etc.

She received the Best Actress Award at the Assam Prag Cine Awards for the Assamnese film Shrinkhol in 2014.

Throughout this phase, she also continued her primary passion - dance. While she was in Mumbai she was trained by Guru Vaibhav Arekar and Guru Rajeshri Shirke at Lasya academy. Later she was trained by Guru Naresh Pillai.

After shifting to Kolkata, Jaya joined Kalamandalam under the guidance of Guru Thankamani Kutty in the year 2005. she continued her learning under Bidushi Rama Vaidyanathan. Jaya has performed as a dancer at many prestigious venues. She regaled audiences at Detroit's Cobo Arena at the inauguration of the 2007 Bengali Sammelan & Muscat show in May 2015.

Jaya also worked with renowned theatre personality Usha Ganguly as the main lead in her production Chandalika. She acted in the film Arshinagar directed by Aparna Sen. Film Alifa in Bengali language shot at Guwahati directed by Deep Choudhury which was selected in the year 2016,For 22nd Kolkata International Film Festival received best debut director award in 2017 national award and Best film in OTTAWA film FEST. She won the best actress award for the film Alifa in Lonawala Film Festival (LIFT). In 2018 and received best actress award in Hyderabad ((Bengali film)) festival for the film Alifa.[3][4]

Filmography

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Year Film Role Language Note
1999 Amrita Hindi
2000 Pennin Manathai Thottu Sunitha Tamil
2000 Shesh Thikana Sriradha Bengali
2000 Uttara Uttara
2000 Thilaadanam Telugu
2001 Kalakalappu Thilaga Tamil
2001 Bahala Chennagide Kannada
2002 Magunira Shagada Odia
2002 Samurai Kavitha Tamil
2002 Evare Atagaadu Sneha Telugu credited as Jaya[5]
2002 Magunira Shagada Odia
2002 Chhal Padmini Hindi
2002 Desh Devi Gayatri
2003 Xcuse Me Monica Khurana
2004 Hotath Neerar Jonnyo Rani Bengali
2011 Katakuti Sudeshna
2012 Quartet 1 Hindi
2014 Sringkhal Ambika Assamese Prag Cine Awards for Best Actress
2015 Arshinagar Madhu Mitra Bengali
2016 One Little Finger English
2018 Alifa Fatima Bengali
2018 Dawshobhuja- A Durgachitra cameo appearance
TBA Flowers of the Mountain TBA Hindi

Television

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References

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  1. ^ "Without discussing with Bickram, I don't take any financial decision: Jaya Seal Ghosh - Times of India". The Times of India. 24 October 2018. Archived from the original on 12 October 2020. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
  2. ^ "Jaya Seal Ghosh to perform at ICCR - Times of India". The Times of India. 9 August 2019. Archived from the original on 30 August 2019. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
  3. ^ "Assam: Party not over for Alifa, Jaya Seal yet". NORTHEAST NOW. 29 June 2018. Archived from the original on 3 July 2018. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
  4. ^ "Jaya Seal Ghosh's big win - Times of India". The Times of India. 29 June 2018. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
  5. ^ Srihari, Gudipoodi (14 January 2003). "Triangular match". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007.
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