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Anirban Bhattacharyya is an Indian television producer, author, standup comedian, and actor.

Anirban Bhattacharyya
Anirban Bhattacharyya
Born	Kolkata, West Bengal
Occupation	Bestselling Author Television Producer Standup Comedian Actor Director
Years active	1998–present

Early life

He was born on 26 October in Kolkata. He studied in a boarding school in Kalimpong called Dr. Graham's Homes. He then did his Bachelor of Arts in English literature from St. Xavier's College, Kolkata. He acquired his Master's Degree in Mass Communication from the A.J.K. Mass Communication Research Centre, New Delhi.

Television career

He began his career in television by working in TV18. He worked in the music channel of Star India called Channel V where he was the Executive Producer and the Head of Content. He worked on various shows, including co-editing and Associate Directing the 2nd season of the Indian version of Popstars. He was the Head of Non-Fiction Content at The Walt Disney Company where he directed the popular flagship show Studio Disney. He partnered in a Production House called RowdyRascal and began to produce content for Indian Television channels. He co-created and produces one of India's most popular crime shows on television called Savdhaan India on Life OK which has subsequently been branded as Star Bharat. He co-created and produced Ishq Kills which aired on Star Plus. He is also the Series Producer of the longest running crime show on Indian television Crime Patrol. He has also written and produced the third season of Fear Files: Darr Ki Sacchi Tasvirein His company also produced the Indian adaptation of the Emmy Award-winning reality show MTV True Life for MTV India. Anirban also directed two music videos. The first was for the song Rok Sako To Rok Lo by Euphoria & Mehnaz_Hoosein and the second was for Aasma's superhit song Chandu Ke Chacha.

Author

Anirban released his debut book entitled The Deadly Dozen: India's Most Notorious Serial Killers[1] which is published by Penguin India. It went on to become a No.1 bestseller on Amazon India. The book was launched[2] by film-director Anurag Kashyap. The book has been endorsed by actors John Abraham, Ayushmann Khurrana, Ronit Roy and film directors Kiran Rao, Shashanka Ghosh, and writer Jayant Kripalani. The book is a true-crime non-fiction account about 12 of the deadliest serial killers of India.

Dec 2021 Anirban's second book Mumblings & Musings was published by Petals Publishers and Distributors. It is a collection of modern poetry and photographs. The book has received rave reviews from celebrities like actor Sushant Singh, actor and supermodel Dipannita Sharma, actor and author Jayant Kripalani, bestselling author Vish Dhamija and poet Dr. Santosh Bakaya.

June 2022: Anirban's third book was published entitled The Adventurous 6: The Sinister Summer Holiday by Om Books International. It is the debut adventure for the 5 siblings and their dog. Anirban had written the book in 1985 when he was 11 years old in Kalimpong. It is a tribute to the adventures of The Famous Five (novel series) by Enid Blyton which he read while growing up. Instead of getting celebrities to endorse the book, Anirban shipped the manuscript to kids across the world who reviewed the manuscript and gave their quotes which are printed in the book.

August 2022: Anirban's fourth, true crime book India's Money Heist: The Chelembra Bank Robbery was published by Penguin India. The book is about one of India's biggest bank robberies - Chelembra Bank Robbery which took place in Malappuram district in Kerala and the investigation that was led by P Vijayan The book was launched [3] in Kochi by superstar actor Mohanlal and Ranjith (director) The book became a No.1 Bestseller on Amazon India within 1 week of its publication.

Actor and voice actor

Anirban made his Bollywood debut in the Yashraj hit "Sui Dhaaga: Made in India"[4] (2018) starring Varun Dhawan and Anushka Sharma, and directed by Sharat Katariya. He also appeared in Mission Mangal (2019).[5]^{[third-party source needed]} He is also a voice performer and dubbing artist and has dubbed for the Indian (Hindi language) versions of Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar movies Cars 2 (2011) Planes (film) (2013) and The Wild (2006). In Cars 2 he dubbed for the main villain Professor Zündapp.

Anirban has acted in Opium (2022) [6] along with Vinay Pathak, Sharib Hashmi and Manu Rishi which premiered at the 2022 Tokyo International Film Festival [7]

Standup comedy

Anirban was the winner of the first-ever open mic to be held at The Comedy Store in Mumbai in 2011. Since then he has toured all over the country with his solo show Don't Mess With The Bong.

References

External links

• Anirban's Amazon Author Page
• Anirban Bhattacharyya at Penguin India
• BooksByAB on Facebook
• Anirban's Standup Comedy on Youtube
• Anirban's Standup Comedy on Facebook
• Anirban Bhattacharyya on IMDB
• Anirban's Twitter

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