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The Tragic and Mysterious Death of Bengali Actress Mahua Roychoudhury
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News18•15-10-2026, 13:15
The Tragic and Mysterious Death of Bengali Actress Mahua Roychoudhury
- •Renowned Bengali actress Mahua Roychoudhury met a tragic and mysterious death at the tender age of 27
- •She won the hearts of viewers with blockbuster films like Dadar Kirti and Sriman Prithviraj
- •At the age of 18, she eloped and married Tilak Chakraborty, later becoming a mother to a son named Gola
- •On a fateful night in 1985, she suffered severe burn injuries under mysterious circumstances that remain unsolved
- •Director Rajdeep Ghosh and producer Rana Sarkar are bringing her life story to the screen in the film Gun Gun Kore Mahua
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Mahua Roychoudhury died in 1985 at the age of 26 or 27 after sustaining severe burn injuries. While family members claimed she suffered an accident while heating milk for her son when a stove burst, subsequent investigations found no kerosene in the stove, though her body smelled of kerosene and bore signs of injury.
Television actress Ankita Mallick has been cast to play the role of Mahua Roychoudhury in the biographical film 'Gun Gun Kore Mahua' directed by Rajদীপ Ghosh and produced by Rana Sarkar under DAG Creative Media.
Mahua Roychoudhury eloped and married her lover Tilak Chakraborty at the young age of 18 in 1976. She gave birth to her son, Tamal (nicknamed Gola), on September 24th of the following year.
