Arpita Pal

Arpita, often called the Tolly Queen by her fans, has been an actress par excellence having acted in over 40 films in Bengali, Bhojpuri, Odia and Hindi. She took a break from acting to raise her son and then she came back with a bang - She had 12 releases in the pipeline just before the pandemic hit us in 2020. Her modeling career spans over 20 years, which started with her being crowned "Tolottama" - beauty pageant by ABP Group (previous winner were Bipashu Basu and Celinina Jaitley). She has been a loving face of on national TV for brands like Fair & Lovely, Yippi Noodles, Lacto calamine etc. She is a trained classical singer having sang duets with a maestro like Rashid Khan. A trained classical dancer, Arpita is mesmerizing on the stage. Her recent solo musical stage - My Name Is Jaan has won unprecedented accolades from Media and Critics. Arpita is also a serial entrepreneur. Flo, FICCI Women's outfit felicitated Arpita as an entrepreneur. She is often invited to speak in prestigious forums Post marriage, she set up a production house partnering with her husband which later on grew to be a leading production house in Kolkata. She has produced numerous award winning fiction and non-fiction shows for leading Bengali channels like Star, Zee, Colors etc. In her next stint as an entrepreneur, she set up a start up partnering with a friend and media industry stalwart Barun Das (IIT, IIM, LSE Alumni and current the Chief executive officer of tv9 Network). The Heath-TECH-content start up which earlier raised funds from SREI group, was recently acquired by a leading TV network. She is in the process of launching her fresh venture Tumbaga Media Pvt Limited in Delhi, which will focus on production of fiction web-series based on real incidence.