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Jamuna Barua (10 October 1919 – 24 November 2005) was a leading Indian actress. Early life. Jamuna was the fourth of the six daughters of Puran Gupta, a resident of a village near Agra, India. Each of the sisters was named after an Indian river like Ganga, Jamuna, Bhagirathi etc.
Jamuna Barua was a famous heroine in the 1930’s who played the lead role of Parvathy in the first and second talking version of Devdas, one of the most memorable romantic novels made on screen several times. Both the versions were scripted and directed by none other than her husband, P. C. Barua.
Oct 8, 2021 · Jamuna Barua is the first Paro of the talkies era. She was only fourteen when she got the role in 'Devdas. 'The actress was married to legendary actor-director Prathamesh Barua with whom she had three sons— Deb Kumar, Rajat Kumar and Prasun Kumar.
Jamuna also acted outside Barua direction in three Bengali films Debar (1943) and Nilanguriya (1943) where she proved herself without Barua's influence. Her last film Malancha (1953) was also outside Barua's direction.
Nov 23, 2005 · Jamuna Barua, a leading Bengali actress of yesteryears and wife of legendary actor Pramathesh Barua, died at her south Kolkata residence Thursday. She was 86 and is survived by four sons.
Memorable for being the first Paro of the Indian talkies, having played the female lead in Devdas (1935), Jamuna Barua went on to work in several films in Assamese, Bengali and Hindi.
Jamuna is best known for her role of Paro in P.C. Barua’s masterpiece “Devdas”. She did a lot of hit films after that, and even won awards for them, but to film-goers down the ages she is synonymous with Paro
