'Subho Nobo borsho' to all our Bengali artists from Fridaymoviez! Here's wishing a Happy and Shining New Year to Bollywood's brilliant Bengali fraternity! There is absolutely no denying the niche that has been carved out in B-Town by our talented and graceful Bengali actors and brilliant film-makers!
Be it the rugby player-cum-actor Rahul Bose, the legendary dancer Mithunda, or lovely veteran actresses like Moushmi Chatterjee, Jaya Bhaduri and Sharmila Tagore� all have contributed immensely to the art and craft of filmmaking.
And let's not forget our more current Bong-Bombshell-Brigade - Kajol, Rani Mukherjee, Bipasha Basu, Sushmita Sen, Konkona Sen Sharma and Riya Sen, who have won over millions of hearts across the globe and made India very proud!
For those of you who would like to know just how enormous the Bengali-impact has been on Bollywood, check out the following list of better known Bengali artists in B-Town:
� Kajol Mukherjee�Bollywood actress.
� Tanushree Dutta-Former Miss India and Bollywood actress
� Utpal Dutt�Bengali actor
� Mamata Shankar - Bollywood and Bengali actress
� Mithun Chakraborty�Bollywood and Bengali film actor
� Moushumi Chatterjee�Bollywood actress
� Biswajit Chatterjee�Bengali and Bollywood actor
� Raakhee Gulzar�Bollywood actress
� Bipasha Basu�A Bengali Bollywood actress
� Seema Biswas�Bollywood actress
� Bobita - Bangladeshi film actress
� Rahul Bose�Bengali and Bollywood actor and rugby player
� Priyanshu Chatterjee-Bollywood actor
� Shefali Chowdhury�Hollywood actor, seen in Harry Potter movies as Parvati Patil
� Koena Mitra-Former channel V VJ and Bollywood actress
� Jaya Bhaduri�Bollywood actress and wife of Amitabh Bachchan
� Victor Banerjee�Bengali and Bollywood actor
� Rhona Mitra-Half-Bengali actress in Britain
� Sabyasachi Chakraborty - Bollywood and Bengali actor
� Preeti Ganguly- Bollywood actress
� Rupa Ganguly-Bengali and Bollywood actress
� Shahana Goswami- Bollywood actress
� Raakhee Gulzar�Bollywood actress
� Imran Khan�Bollywood actor
� Saif Ali Khan- Bollywood actor. Half Bengali.
� Soha Ali Khan- Bollywood actress. Half Bengali.
� Ashok Kumar�Bollywood actor
� Kishore Kumar -Bollywood singer, actor, music composer
� Uttam Kumar�Bollywood and Bengali film actor
� Rituparna Sengupta- Bollywood and Bengali actress
� Shayan Munshi- Bollywood and Bengali actor
� Tannishtha Chatterjee -Bollywood and Bengali actress
� Pradeep Kumar�Bollywood actor
� Diya Mirza�Bollywood actress. Part Bengali.
� Koena Mitra-Former channel V VJ and Bollywood actress
� Sabyasachi Chakraborty - Bollywood and Bengali actor
� Kajol Mukherjee�Bollywood actress.
� Kamalini Mukherjee- Bollywood & Tollywood actress
� Tanisha Mukherjee�Bollywood actress.
� Rani Mukerji�Bollywood actress and superstar, Multiple Filmfare award winner.
� Lisa Ray�Model & actress. Half Bengali & Half Polish
� Reena Roy�Bollywood actress
� Debashree Roy�Bollywood actress
� Deep Roy-Hollywood Actor
� Nandana Sen�Bollywood actress, daughter of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen
� Raima Sen�Bengali Film and Bollywood actress
� Reema Sen- Bollywood & Kollywood actress
� Rimi Sen�Bollywood actress
� Riya Sen�Bollywood actress
� Suchitra Sen�Bollywood and Bengali film actress
� Sushmita Sen�Bollywood actress, India's first Miss Universe
� Amala- Bollywood actress
� Konkona Sen Sharma�Bollywood Actress
� Sharmila Tagore�Bollywood and Bengali film actress
� Rituparna Sengupta- Bollywood and Bengali actress
� Shayan Munshi- Bollywood and Bengali actor
� Tannishtha Chatterjee -Bollywood and Bengali actress
� Joy Mukherjee -Bollywood actor
And check out the list of some of the better known Bengali film-makers in Bollywood: � Anurag Basu - filmmaker
� Aparna Sen film maker
� Anjan Dutta film maker, actor, musician
� Basu Bhattacharya Film maker
� Basu Chatterjee film maker
� Bimal Roy - late film maker
� Dibakar Banerjee - filmmaker
� Gautam Ghose filmmaker
� Hrishikesh Mukherjee filmmaker
� Ken Ghosh
� Mrinal Sen
� Partho Sen-Gupta
� Pradeep Sarkar
� Rituporno Ghosh
� Ritwik Ghatak
� Satyajit Ray (Bharat Ratna in 1992, Academy Honorary Award in 1992 for lifetime achievement and received the L�gion d'honneur award of France).
� Shakti Samanta
� Tapan Sinha
� Sujoy Ghosh
� Satyen Bose
� Sachin Bhowmick