Education
She studied at Mount Carmel school, and later graduated in History from Lady Brabourne College.
She studied at Mount Carmel school, and later graduated in History from Lady Brabourne College.
Having garnered the National Film Award in 1998 for her work in Dahan, she is known for portraying very bold and sensuous characters. Rituparna was interested in the arts since a young age and learned painting, dancing, singing and handicrafts at a painting school, called Chitrangshu. She began studying Modern History for an Master of Arts at University of Calcutta, but had to interrupt studies to concentrate on her career as an actress.
Her first film was Shwet Patharer Thala with Aparna Senator who played her mother-in-law. in Her Hindi debut was North North Sippy"s Teesra Kaun directed by Parto Ghosh.
Hema Malini picked her for a negative supporting role in Zee"s home-production Mohini, starring Madhu and Sudesh Berry. In 2013, she will be making her Malayalam debut with Sohanlal"s Kadhaveedu.
In July 2013, Sengupta was entering Canada for a festival to showcase her new film, Mukti Director Reshmi, when she was allegedly stopped by immigration officials, who harassed her for over 6 hours. She had reported that she was entering Canada on a legal and valid visitor"s visa, when the immigration officials said that her visa was expired and that she would have to leave the country without being allowed into Canada.