A student of English literature, and an eminent
personality in the arena of the performing and visual
arts, Renu Roy was the founder-Director of Kolkata’s
reputed cultural organisation Spandan.
In an illustrious career that has spanned five decades,
she has also been closely associated with theatre as an
accomplished actor, producer and director.
Spandan Films was a joint initiative with Aparna Sen
and the late Rituparno Ghosh.
Renu is the recipient of several prestigious awards
including the Bharat Nirman, Women Achievers and
Kalakar Awards, for her noteworthy contribution to the
cultural field.
A major milestone was the National Film Festival Award,
‘The Golden Lotus’ for ‘Best Film’ 1994, which she received
for her widely-acclaimed feature film Unishe April, from
the then President of India, the late Shri Shankar Dayal
Sharma.
Over the years, she has written several articles on a
wide variety of subjects and was a regular contributor to
the Telegraph’s column ‘Eye On Kolkata’.
She broke the glass ceiling when she was elected as the
first woman President of The Saturday Club, a 114-year
old institution in Kolkata.
Her passion for poetry has culminated in her third
volume of verse, The Far Side and Other Poems.
Renu lives with her husband in New Delhi.