She is married to Probal Basu since 2007. They divorced in 2004 at a family court in Cuttack and she subsequently left the Odia Film Industry. She has also made several Odia films, mostly with Siddhanta Mahapatra, her first husband.īanerjee was married to actor and politician Siddhanta Mahapatra. She appeared in 35 Bengali films with Prosenjit Chatterjee, of which 32 were declared 'Superhits'. Later she has successes acting opposite established Indian cinema actors, including Amitabh Bachchan, Chiranjeevi, Upendra Rao, Mithun Chakraborty, Siddhanta Mahapatra, Prosenjit Chatterjee and Tapas Paul. Banerjee's breakthrough role was with director Sukhen Das who changed her name to Rachana (which Das found in 'Rabindra Rachanabali'). Her fame led her into films and she was spotted by Chidananda Dasgupta for his second Bengali feature film Amodini (1995). In 1992 she missed out of the Miss India contest grand finale where Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was crowned. She entered several beauty pageants before starting her acting career and was often declared 'Miss Beautiful Smile'. Banerjee won the Miss Calcutta contest in 1990 when she was still in her 2nd year of graduation course from South City College.
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