Bollywood actor Arya Banerjee was found dead in her Kolkata flat on Friday. The 33-year-old was the daughter of the late sitarist Nikhil Bandyopadhyay. Police ruled that her death was not ’a homicide’ on Sunday. Here’s a look at the late actor’s life.
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Banerjee is best known for her stint as adult star Shakeela in the 2011 film ‘The Dirty Picture’, which also starred Vidya Balan and Emraan Hashmi.
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Her other acting credits include 'LSD: Love Sex Aur Dhoka' (2010). Banerjee, who had also worked as a model, was an alumni of Anupam Kher’s acting school.
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Banerjee worked as a model in Mumbai and in 2014 had appeared in an episode of Indian crime series 'Savdhaan India'.
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The model-actor had a musical bent of mind. Like her father, she had studied classical music and had a masters degree in classical music.
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‘Target Kolkata’ actor Bidita Bag, who is Banerjee’s former roommate, spoke about the late actor, calling her:“A very talented girl…who used to sing and dance like a rock-star. She amazed us with her acting and dancing stint in films like LSD, Dirty picture.”
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Actor Chandan Roy Sanyal meanwhile revealed that she was a fan of movies and the duo often watched films by Woody Allen, Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, Mrinal Sen, Ritwik Ghatak and the like.
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Kolkata Police Joint Commissioner (crime) Murlidhar Sharma was quoted by IANS as saying that the actor-model was suffering from cirrhosis of liver, at the time of her death. She lived alone in her Jodhpur Park residence along with her pet.
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