Karuna Banerjee

Karuna Banerjee was a Bengali actress immortalized by her roles in Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy as the long suffering mother, Sarbajaya. She was nominated for Best Actress at the 1959 BAFTA Awards for her performance in Aparajito , the second part of The Apu Trilogy. She appeared in a number of other films after that, including Ray's Devi and Kanchenjungha .