Suchitra Sen's last journey

She wanted to go home and the doctors were planning to discharge her on Saturday. But, it was her mortal remains that left the hospital on Friday morning. Around 8.30am, Suchitra Sen the queen of Bengali cinema suffered a massive heart attack and passed away in Kolkata’s Belle Vue Clinic.
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Her body was first taken to her Ballygunge Circular Road residence, where the actress had led the life of a recluse for the past 35 years, and then moved on to Keoratala Ghat where she was given a gun salute before being cremated.
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Her daughter, actress Moon Moon Sen, who was accompanied by her husband Bharat Dev Varma and daughters Riya and Raima, performed the last rites. It was all done quietly and away from media glare, just as the fiercely private Suchitra had wanted. Present at the cremation ground were West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee and actors Prosenjit Chatterjee, Dev, June Malia, Roopa Ganguly, Jeet, directors Haranath Chakrabarty and Srijit Mukherjee.