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 | |
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![]() 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]
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]
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.
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]
No | Year | Film | Director | Role | Notes | Co-star |
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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 | ||
Year | Title | Role | Producer | Channel | Co-star | Notes |
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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 |
Year | Title | Role | Director |
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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 |
Year | Title | Director | Platform | Format | Role | Co-star | Notes |
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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 | |
Year | Title | Director | Notes |
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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 |
Year | Title | Platform | Format |
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2022-Present | Gaurav Bolchhi | Spotify | Solo/Interview |
Year | Title | Platform | Episode(s) | Director | Character | Co-star | Notes |
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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 |
Year | Brand | Director | Co-star |
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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 | |
Year | Award | Category | Film/TV show | Result |
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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 |