Vidushi Jaya Seal Ghosh

Jaya Seal Ghosh, the renowned actress and dancer, started learning Bharatnatyam at a very young age under Guru Indira P.P. Bora in Guwahati, from whom she learned for five years. Simultaneously, she was also acting on Assamese television and doing plays with noted Assamese theater personalities from NSD like Dulal Roy and Baharul Islam, who inspired her. To pursue this interest, she went to the National School of Drama in New Delhi, where she subsequently completed her three-year course in 1997.

Thereafter, she shifted her base to Mumbai and emerged as one of the leading actresses in the country. She went on to act in 19 feature films in 8 languages, besides appearing in several ad commercials. Some of Jaya’s films received national and international awards at film festivals like Venice, Pussan, etc. Among her noteworthy films, she holds Uttara by Buddhadev Dasgupta close to her heart. She was nominated for best actress in the year 2000 for Uttara. She has acted in the South Indian film industry opposite Prabhu Deva, Vikram, Shivraj Kumar, etc. She also played the lead role in the popular Hindi serial Kahani Ghar Ghar Ki (2004). Throughout this phase, she also continued her primary passion, dance. While in Mumbai, she trained under Guru Vaibhav Arekar and Guru Rajeshri Shirke at Lasya Academy. Later, she trained under Guru Naresh Pillai in Mumbai.

After her marriage to music star Bickram Ghosh and subsequently shifting her base to Kolkata, Jaya joined Kalamandalam under the guidance of Guru Thankamani Kutty in 2005.

Jaya is now continuing her learning under Vidushi 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 theater personality Usha Ganguly as the main lead. She received the Best Actress Award at the Assam Prag Cine Awards for the Assamese film Shrinkhol in 2014. Film Alifa in Bengali language, shot at Guwahati, directed by Deep Choudhury, received the best debut director award in the 2017 national award and the best film in the OTTAWA film FEST. She won the best actress award for the film Alifa at the Lonawala Film Festival (LIFT). In 2018, she received the best actress award at the Hyderabad Bengali Film Festival for the film Alifa. Last year, she acted in two Hindi short films, The Green Window and Soch. Both films were directed by Indira Dhar Mukherjee and received a lot of accolades on respectable festival circuits. She has also worked in Ashram season 3, directed by Prakash Jha, which is going to come soon on OTT. She has opened her production house now in the name of Jaya Seal Ghosh Productions. She has received the Best Actress award for the film Soch at the 7th International Bengal Film Festival in Kolkata. She has also started acting in Hindi theater after a 12-year gap with Padatik Theatre Group of Kolkata.