Shekhar Chattopadhyay

Known for ActingCalcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India [now India]

Shekhar Chatterjee (1924–1990) was an Indian actor and film director. Chatterjee was born in Kolkata in 1924. He began his career in the Bengali theatre in the 1950s. He was associated with several leftist theatre groups, including the Communist Party's Indian People's Theatre Association, Utpal Dutt's Little Theatre Group, and Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop, as well as his own group, Theatre Unit, which he formed in 1958. As a stage actor, he was well known for his Shakespearean roles and for playing Shardul Singh in Dutt's 1965 play Kallol. His directorial work focused on works by German-language playwrights Bertold Brecht, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Peter Handke, and Franz Xaver Kroetz. Chatterjee's Brecht productions were rarely adapted to a local setting, and while critics unanimously praised this approach as "authentic", his colleague Dutt attacked it for failing to communicate Brecht's political symbolism to an Indian audience.Read more

Movies & web series

Marjina Abdulla

The Sage from the Sea

Maa

Sangsar Simantey

Nishimrigaya

Sangini

The Wish Fulfilment

The Survivor

Basanta Bilap

Gandhi

The Expedition

Interview

The Royal Hunt

An Unfinished Story

Bhuvan Shome

The Final Truth

Chorus

The Zoo

Kuheli

Vasundhara

Tagari

Barbadhu

Pratima

Raktatilak

Rodon Bhara Basanta

Sansar

Aleyar Alo

Garh Nasimpur

Joradighir Chowdhury Paribar

Portrait of a Princess