Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Satarupa Sanyal is a Bengali Indian independent or parallel cinema film director, producer, actress, poet and social activist, based in Kolkata, India. She is well known for her feminist social stances that inform her films. She was born on November 12, 1962, to professor Tarun Sanyal and Keya Sanyal, in Burdwan, West Bengal. She got her school education at the St. Margaret's School in Kolkata, and later attended the Scottish Church College. Later she graduated from the Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya.