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Gaurav Chakrabarty is an Indian Bengali film and television actor best known for his portrayal of the character Prodipto Lahiri in the Bengali musical TV series Gaaner Oparey that aired on Star Jalsha from 28 June 2010 to 16 April 2011.[1] Chakrabarty is also known for acting in the Bengali classic periodic thriller TV series Byomkesh (2014-2015), where he played the role of iconic Bengali detective Byomkesh Bakshi. He hails from a family which has had a legacy of association with the Bengali cultural arena, starting from Jochhon Dastidar and Chandra Dastidar (his paternal great uncle and aunt), Bijon Bhattacharya (his paternal great uncle), Jagadish Chandra Chakrabarty & Monika Chakrabarty (his paternal grandparents), and his parents Sabyasachi Chakrabarty & Mithu Chakrabarty. He debuted on the big screen Kaushik Ganguly's Rang Milanti one of the most appreciated films of the year 2011.[2]

Gaurav Chakrabarty
Gaurav in 2019
Born	(1987-03-06) 6 March 1987 (age 35) Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Other names	Niki
Alma mater	Assembly of God Church School, Park Street St. Xavier's College, Kolkata Film and Television Institute of India, Pune
Occupation	Actor Editor Podcast Host
Years active	2007–present
Known for	Role Prodipto Lahiri in Gaaner Oparey Role Byomkesh Bakshi in Byomkesh
Notable work	Rang Milanti Laptop Apur Panchali Eagoler Chokh Colkatay Columbus Double Feluda Aschhe Abar Shabor Parineeta Purba Paschim Dakshin Sagardwipey Jawker Dhan Dwitiyo Purush Abar Kanchanjungha
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Spouse	Ridhima Ghosh(m. 28 November 2017)
Parent(s)	Sabyasachi Chakrabarty (father) Mithu Chakrabarty (mother)
Relatives	Jagadish Chandra Chakrabarty (grandfather) Monica Chakrabarty (grandmother) Arjun Chakrabarty (brother)

He is part of the ensemble cast of the ZEE5 cop drama web series, Lalbazaar.[3]

Calcutta Times voted him as one of the 10 Most Desirable Men in 2015.[4]

Education

Chakrabarty had his schooling at the Assembly of God Church School in Kolkata. He subsequently earned a degree in Mass Communication and Videography from St. Xavier's College, Kolkata and completed his postgraduation in Video Editing from Film and Television Institute of India at Pune.[5]

Early life

Gaurav got involved in theatre from a young age as part of the group Charbak, where he not only assisted in the backstage work (audio technician in the play Rong, Doodh Kheyechhe Meow and the runaway success Cholo Potol Tuli), but also acted as 'Topshe' in the play Apsara Theatre-er Mamla based on Satyajit Ray's thriller of the same name, under the direction of his father, who himself played the role of Feluda. During his St. Xavier days, he played the lead in a documentary on HIV-Aids, Isolation, by teenage filmmaker Sangbit Samaddar, who was at that time, only a Class 12 student of South Point High School.[6]

His acting debut on the small screen happened post his FTII stint, when he was given a small role in the telefilm BaghNokh by Kaushik Ganguly, which aired on ETV Bangla as part of a weekly series.However, his claim to fame was through the critically acclaimed Bengali musical TV series Gaaner Oparey which also saw the debut of his sibling Arjun Chakrabarty as the male lead Gora.

Career

Gaurav debuted on television, along with his younger sibling Arjun Chakrabarty, in the Star Jalsha megaserial Gaaner Oparey produced by Ideas Creations Pvt. Ltd, the production company helmed by the Tollywood hero Prosenjit Chatterjee. Gaaner Oparey was conceived by the channel as a tribute to the poet laureate Rabindranath Tagore on his 150th birth anniversary, and would explore his applicability in the increasingly Westernized modern Bengali society.With a script penned initially by actor and director Rituparno Ghosh and later by Anuja Chattopadhyay (who had previously worked on other serials like Ekhane Aakash Neel), the serial is widely credited for having brought back the educated Tagore-loving, intellectual Bengali audience in front of the television. Even though it ran for only about ten months, the show catapulted the young cast, primarily Gaurav, Arjun and Mimi Chakrabarty (who played the female lead) to fame within that short span of time. Chakrabarty's character 'Prodipto Lahiri', in spite of not being the official male lead, found a cult following, largely due to its controlled and understated portrayal.[7]

Gaurav made his silver screen debut with the film Rang Milanti, a romantic comedy directed by Kaushik Ganguly, that released in September 2011 to wide critical and commercial acclaim. He played the character 'Rik', a serious and docile software engineer in love with an ad-agency employee Kamalika (Ridhima Ghosh).[8] He also featured in the ensemble cast for Kaushik's movie, Laptop (released on 13 April 2012), which was selected for screening at the Indian Panorama section of the 42nd International Film Festival of India at Goa (IFFI 2011: 23 Nov. – 3 Dec.).[9] The film also had an international premiere at the Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF 2011), where it competed for the Muhr AsiaAfrica Awards for feature films.[10] Laptop found Gaurav in the garb of a computer science master's student Jiyon, who also doubled up as the personal tutor of Ridhima Ghosh's character Raya, an aspiring model. That apart, he plays a Muslim lad Anwar, in love with a singer Kuhu (Ridhima Ghosh again), in Abhijit Dasgupta's Aashbo Aar Ekdin, co-directed by Arindam Sil. The ensemble cast has other big names like Abir Chatterjee, Swastika Mukherjee, Roopa Ganguly, Alokananda Roy, and others. He also appears as Indrajit Pratap Roy in Haranath Chakraborty's Chhayamoy based on Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay's story of the same name, and as Prasit in Atanu Ghosh's upcoming directorial venture (his fourth overall on big screen) Rupkatha Noy.[11]

Besides films, Gaurav has been keeping up with his theatre work and can be seen regularly as 'Topshe' in Apsara Theatre-er Mamla. He also starred in the Star Jalsha tele-serial Adwitiya which wrapped up recently (2 March 2012). There, he played the role of Robi Kiran Choudhury, the elder brother to protagonist Chandra Kiran Choudhury, played by Indrasish Roy. Robi Kiran, a far cry from the likes of Prodipto and Rik, was a power-hungry but educated village chief, whose life was governed by the schemes he designed to establish and maintain his political and social supremacy over his native village in the Sundarbans.[12]

Filmography

No	Year	Film	Director	Role	Notes	Co-star
1	2011	Rang Milanti	Kaushik Ganguly	Rik	Debut Film	Ridhima Ghosh
2	2012	Laptop	Kaushik Ganguly	Jiyon Ghosh	National award-winning film	Ridhima Ghosh
3	2013	Chhayamoy[13]	Haranath Chakraborty	Indrajit Pratap Roy	Based on a novel same name written by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay	Sabyasachi Chakrabarty & Deepankar De
4	2013	Rupkatha Noy	Atanu Ghosh	Prasit		Sohini Sarkar
5	2013	Aashbo Arek Din	Abhijit Dasgupta & Arindam Sil	Anwar		Ridhima Ghosh
6	2014	Apur Panchali	Kaushik Ganguly	Arko	Based on the life of Subir Banerjee, the actor who played Apu in Pather Panchali (1955),the first film of Satyajit Ray's Apu trilogy[14]	Ardhendu Banarjee
7	2014	Highway[15]	Sudipto Chattopadhyay	Dhrubo	Extended cameo	Parambrata Chatterjee
8	2014	Aagun	Joydip Mukherjee	Binoy	Unreleased	Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, Rajatava Dutta, Arindam Sil, Abir Chatterjee, Indrasish Roy, Sudipa Basu & Ridhima Ghosh
9	2015	Fakebook[16]	Sanjay Bardhan	Suman Naskar		Ridhima Ghosh
10	2016	Eagoler Chokh[17]	Arindam Sil	SI Sanjib Das	Special appearance; Based on a story of same name written by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay	Saswata Chatterjee, Subhrajit Dutta & Anirban Bhattacharya
11	2016	Gangster	Birsa Dasgupta	Ajay	Guest appearance	Yash Dasgupta
12	2016	Colkatay Columbus[18]	Saurav Palodhi	Balahori Roy aka Roy		Mir, Tanusree Chakraborty & Anirban Bhattacharya
13	2016	Double Feluda	Sandip Ray	Ranajit Bandyopadhyay	Film series of Feluda[19]	Sabyasachi Chakrabarty & Saheb Bhattacharya
14	2017	The Bongs Again	Anjan Dutt[20]	Anindya		Parno Mitra[21]
15	2018	Aschhe Abar Shabor	Arindam Sil	SI Sanjib Das	Based on the story Prajapatir Mrityu O Punorjonmo written by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay	Saswata Chatterjee & Subhrajit Dutta
16	2018	Crisscross[22]	Birsa Dasgupta	Ahan[23]	Based on Smaranjit Chakraborty's best seller Crisscross	Nusrat Jahan, Priyanka Sarkar & Arjun Chakrabarty
17	2019	Bhootchakra Pvt. Ltd.[24]	Haranath Chakraborty	Nimai Bose aka Nimo	Loosely inspired by 2017 Telugu film Anando Brahma	Soham Chakraborty & Bonny Sengupta[25]
18	2019	Parineeta	Raj Chakraborty	Ranadev Sen		Subhashree Ganguly, Falaque Rashid Roy & Ritwick Chakraborty
19	2019	Purba Paschim Dakshin[26]	Raajhorshee De	Atin[27]	Based on Ebong Inquisition	Eshika Dey & Rudraprasad Sengupta
20	2019	Sagardwipey Jawker Dhan[28]	Sayantan Ghosal	Kumar	A sequel to Jawker Dhan and the second film	Parambrata Chatterjee & Koel Mallick
21	2020	Dwitiyo Purush	Srijit Mukherji	Rajat Chakrabarty[29]	A sequel to Baishe Srabon and the second film	Parambrata Chatterjee & Ridhima Ghosh[30]
22	2020	Cholo Potol Tuli	Arindam Ganguly	Mainak	Based on Cholo Potol Tuli by Shibram Chakraborty	Arindam Ganguly
23	2021	Flyover[31]	Abhimanyu Mukherjee	SI Amit Sen	Remake of 2016 Kannada film U Turn	Koel Mallick
24	2021	Ei Ami Renu[32]	Soumen Sur	Sumit	Based on a novel same name written by Samaresh Majumdar	Sohini Sarkar
25	2021	Nirbhaya[33]	Anshuman Pratyush	Ritwik Dutt[34]		Hiya Dey & Priyanka Sarkar
26	2022	Swastik Sanket	Sayantan Ghosal	Priyam	Based on Debarati Mukhopadhyay's novel Narak Sanket[35]	Nusrat Jahan[36]
27	2022	Abar Kanchanjungha	Raajhorshee De	Rohit Deb		Arpita Chatterjee, Kaushik Sen, Rahul, Padmanabha Dasgupta & Devlina Kumar
28	2022	Bismillah	Indraadip Dasgupta	Shibu		Riddhi Sen & Anindita Raychaudhury
29	2022	Ajker Shortcut	Subir Mandol	Abesh		Parambrata Chatterjee & Apu Biswas
30	Upcoming	Mayaa[37]	Raajhorshee De	Michael	Releasing on 4th November; Based on Macbeth written by William Shakespeare
31	Upcoming	Tenida and Co.	Sayantan Ghosal	Kyabla	Post Production; Based on Narayan Gangopadhyay's novel Jhau-Bunglow Rahasya[38]
32	Upcoming	Saralakkha Holmes[39]	Sayantan Ghosal	TBA

Television

Year	Title	Role	Producer	Channel	Co-star	Notes
1988	Shei Shomoy	Young Chandranath	Jochhon Dastidar	Doordarshan	Kheyali Dastidar	TV Series; First appearance on Television
1995	Ekushe Paa[40]	Younger Neel Mukherjee (Child Actor)		Zee Bangla	Anjan Dutt & Anashua Majumdar	TV Series
2010	Bagh Nokh	Mandaar (Secondary character)	Ramoji Rao	ETV Bangla	Ardhendu Banarjee & Kanchana Mallick	Telefilm
2010-11	Gaaner Oparey	Prodipto Lahiri/Deep (Parallel lead)	Prosenjit Chatterjee	Star Jalsha	Arjun Chakrabarty & Mimi Chakraborty	TV Series
2011-12	Adwitiya	Rabikiran Chowdhury/Rabi (Lead antagonist)	Prosenjit Chatterjee	Star Jalsha	Sohini Sarkar & Indrasish Roy	TV Series
2014–15	Byomkesh[41]	Byomkesh Bakshi (Lead role)	Rana Sarkar	Colors Bangla	Ridhima Ghosh	TV Series; Based on the Bengali sleuth Byomkesh Bakshi created by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay
2016	Mahanayak	Biswanath (Based on actor Biswajit Chatterjee)	Shrikant Mohta & Mahendra Soni	Star Jalsha	Prosenjit Chatterjee	TV Series; Loosely based on the life of megastar Uttam Kumar
2019	Gupi Gayen[42]	Host (Cameo appearance)	Zee Entertainment Enterprises	Zee Bangla Cinema	Rwitobroto Mukherjee	Telefilm
2019	Shesh Mess[43]	Aditya (Lead role)	Zee Entertainment Enterprises	Zee Bangla Cinema	Kheya Chattopadhyay	Telefilm

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Director
2007	Apsara Theatre-er Mamla	Topshe	Sabyasachi Chakrabarty
2008	Cholo Potol Tuli	Mainak	Arindam Ganguly
2013	Ekhon Tokhon	Baradakanto	Arindam Ganguly
2016	Chitey Gur	Siddhartha	Arindam Ganguly
2017	Mushkil Ashaan	Saralakkha Home	Arindam Ganguly
2017	Shironaam	Ambarish	Kheyali Dastidar
2019	Bheeti O Shubhechcha	Rono	Kheyali Dastidar

Short films and web series

Year	Title	Director	Platform	Format	Role	Co-star	Notes
2018	Shrimoti Bhoyonkori	Robiul Alam-Robi	Hoichoi	Web Original Film	Binoy	Ritabhari Chakraborty
2018	Saiyaan[44]	Abhiroop Basu	YouTube	Musical Short Film	Hero	Anindita Bose	Kolkata's first musical short film
2019	Mukhomukhi	Partha Sen	YouTube	Short Film	Siddhartha	Rafiath Rashid Mithila	Indo-Bangladesh project
2019	Bhalobashar Shohor (Pori)[45]	Aritra Sen, Rohan Ghosh & Nandini Kundu	ZEE5	Web Series	Aditya	Ridhima Ghosh
2019	Parking[46]	Saurav Palodhi		Short Film	Sarwar
2020	Lalbazaar[47]	Sayantan Ghosal	ZEE5	Web Series	Inspector Sabir Ahmed	Kaushik Sen
Upcoming	7[48]	Anjan Dutt	ZEE5	Web Series	TBA	Ridhima Ghosh & Rahul
Upcoming	Chhotolok[49]	Indranil RoyChowdhury	ZEE5	Web Series	TBA	Indrani Halder

As editor

Year	Title	Director	Notes
2010	Shobar Shera Gorumara	Sabyasachi Chakrabarty	Documentary on Gorumara National Park
2013	C/O Sir	Kaushik Ganguly	Co-edited song Dekhchi Shetai
2017	Bumper	Rwitobroto Mukherjee	Short Film

Podcast

Year	Title	Platform	Format
2022-Present	Gaurav Bolchhi	Spotify	Solo/Interview

Audio drama

Year	Title	Platform	Episode(s)	Director	Character	Co-star	Notes
2020	Sunday Suspense	Mirchi Bangla (98.3 FM)	Darjeeling Jomjomat	Agnijit Sen (Agni)	Samiran Majumdar	Sabyasachi Chakrabarty	Adapted from Satyajit Ray's novel Darjeeling Jomjomat; Best Audio Book-Fiction(WINNER-2021) at New York Festivals Radio Awards
2021	Sunday Suspense	Mirchi Bangla (98.3 FM)	The Count of Monte Cristo (Part 1 & 2)	Deepanjan Ghosh (Deep)	Edmond Dantes	Anirban Bhattacharya & Mir	Adapted from Alexandre Dumas's adventure novel The Count of Monte Cristo
2022	Sunday Suspense	Mirchi Bangla (98.3 FM)	The Three Musketeers (Part 1 & 2)	Deepanjan Ghosh (Deep)	Athos	Rwitobroto Mukherjee	Adapted from Alexandre Dumas's historical adventure novel The Three Musketeers

TVCs

Year	Brand	Director	Co-star
2017	Anjali Jewellers	Anindya Chatterjee	Ishaa Saha
2018	Myntra	Indranil Roychowdhury	Ridhima Ghosh, Mithu Chakrabarty, Arjun Chakrabarty, Sabyasachi Chakrabarty
2018	Hiland Riverside Project	Anindya Chatterjee	Ridhima Ghosh
2019	Sunrise Spices	Anik Dutta	Madhumita Sarcar
2020	Sparkle Dishwash	Sayantan Ghosal	Ridhima Ghosh
2020	Utalika Luxury-Phirey Paowa	VIK
2021	Jovees Herbal[50]	Sayantan Ghosal	Ritabhari Chakraborty
2022	P.C. Chandra Jewellers		Ridhima Ghosh
2022	Admission Tree		Ridhima Ghosh

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Film/TV show	Result
2012	Star Jalsha Parivaar Awards	Sobcheye Priyo Khalnayak	Adwitiya	Won
	Star Guide Bengali Film Awards	Best Male Debut	Rang Milanti	Won
	International Bangla Film Academy Awards	Promising Face of the Year		Nominated
2015	Tele Academy Award	Best Actor in a Leading Role	Byomkesh	Won
2016	Solo Room Award	Best Young Talent	Contribution in Bengali Film Industry	Won
2019	AAHAN International Short Film Festival	Best Editing	Bumper	Won
2021	Films and Frames Digital Film Awards	Best Supporting Actor Male (OTT)	Lalbazaar	Won
		Trendsetting Performance of the Year-Male (Jury)	Flyover	Nominated

References

External links

• Gaurav Chakrabarty on Medium
• Gaurav Chakrabarty at IMDb

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