Mahua Roychoudhury (Bengali: মহুয়া রায়চৌধুরী), (24 September 1958 – 22 July 1986) was an indian film actress.He was born in Kolkata.

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She was a Bengali film actress in the 80s. She was born on 24 September, 1958. Her original name was Shipra Roy Choudhury. Director Tarun Majumdar named her ‘Mahua’. Tarun Majumdar discovered her and Sandhya Roy groomed her. Mahua Roychoudhury was from a lower – middle-class family of DumDum. Her father Nilanjan Roychowdhury was a dancer.

So from her childhood she had the knack of dancing. She could not pursue her studies due to the economic instability of her family. Meanwhile she made her acting debut in Tarun Majumdars Sriman Pritthiraj (1972). She had also shared screen with matinee idol Uttam Kumar in some films notable amongst being Sei Chokh, Bagh Bandi Khela etc.
She had produced hit films pairing with actors like Dipankar De, Santu Mukherjee, Samit Bhanja, Tapas Pal, Chiranjeet, Koushik Banerjee, Ranjit Mallik and even Prosenjit.
Her next-door girl type acting made her popular in Bengali household. Actresses Sabitri Chattopadhyay, Sandhya Roy groomed her acting skills which further improvised her acting style. Many few actresses of her time knew classical as well as modern dance so well.Mahua infused the art of dancing successfully in her films, a quality quite rare in those days.

She married actor Tilak Chakraborty on May 2, 1976. They had one son named Tamal. Many Bengali heroines lacked good dancing skills in the 70s. Mahua had all such qualities that could establish her as a good actress. She had a beautiful face, good acting and dancing ability. In a very short time she got fame, money everything. Many say that Mahua came from a lower-middle-class family, the taste of fame, money were unexpected for her.
She had received the Filmfare Awards for her performance in the film Dadar Kirti in 1980. Her outstanding performance in Tapan Sinhas Aadmi Aur Aurat (1984) with Amol Palekar won her critical acclaim that corrected her reputation of merely filling up the box office coffers.
There was even a time when Bengali films used to run by her name only. Within a very short span of time Mahua had met with huge success and popularity. She almost by herself had put the Bengali cinema on a comeback-trail with Lal Golap in 1983.