Anirban Chakrabarti

Not to be confused with Anirban Chakraborty.

Anirban Chakrabarti is an Indian Bengali film actor best known for portrayal of the character of Ekenbabu in a film franchise and separate web series under the same name.^[1] He has acted in several other thriller films including Kakababur Protyaborton (2022), Khadaan and Chaalchitro: The Frame Fatale (2024).^[2]

Anirban Chakrabarti
Occupation	Actor
Known for	Eken Babu, Jatayu
Notable work	Eken Babu Khadaan Kakababur Protyaborton The Eken The Eken: Ruddhaswas Rajasthan The Eken: Benaras e Bibhishika

He has played the character of Jatayu in a web series directed by Srijit Mukherji and also acted in the internationally multiple award winner film Once Upon a Time in Calcutta directed by Aditya Vikram Sengupta.^[3][4] He is popular for his portrayal of the role of "Ekenbabu" in the films The Eken (2022), The Eken: Ruddhaswas Rajasthan (2023) and The Eken: Benaras e Bibhishika (2025).

Career

In 2021, Chakrabarti acted in the internationally multiple award winner film Once Upon a Time in Calcutta. Between 2018 and 2021, Chakrabarti played the lead character Ekenbabu in the Eken Babu web series. His portrayal of the character received positive reception. He also acted in another web series Robindronath Ekhane Kawkhono Khete Aashenni (2021). After the success of Ekenbabu web-series, a film titled The Eken was released in 2022, in which he played the role of Ekenbabu.^[5][6][7][8] Following its success, he reprised his role of Ekenbabu in The Eken: Ruddhaswas Rajasthan (2023), which also became a box-office success.^[9][10] In 2023, he also played the lead negative role in Pradhan.^[11] In 2024, he acted in a number of films including Shastri and Khadaan, among which the latter went on to become one of the highest grossing Bengali films of all time.

Filmography

Films

Key

†	Denotes film or TV productions that have not yet been released

Year	Film	Role	Director	Ref.
2021	Mukhosh	Adrish Burman	Birsa Dasgupta	[12]
	FIR	Inspector Paritosh Bairagi	Joydip Mukherjee	[13]
	Once Upon a Time in Calcutta	Pradipta	Aditya Vikram Sengupta	[14]
2022	Kakababur Protyaborton	Amal De	Srijit Mukherji	[15]
	The Eken	Ekenbabu	Joydip Mukherjee	[16]
	Bhotbhoti		Tathagata Mukherjee	[17]
	Kolkata Chalantika	Shibaji	Pavel	[18]
2023	Jai Kali Kalkattawali		Sudeshna Roy & Abhijit Guha	[19]
	The Eken: Ruddhaswas Rajasthan	Ekenbabu	Joydip Mukherjee	[20]
	Cheeni 2		Mainak Bhaumik	[21]
	Pradhan	Jatileshwar Mukherjee	Avijit Sen	[11]
2024	Shastri	Dipu	Pathikrit Basu	[22]
	Khadaan	Balai Mandi	Soojit Dutta	[23]
	Chaalchitro: The Frame Fatale	Naseer	Pratim D. Gupta	[24]
2025	Oporichito	Inspector Avik Dutta	Joydip Mukherjee	[25]
	Shotyi Bole Shotyi Kichhu Nei	Gaurang Aggarwal	Srijit Mukherjee	[26]
	The Eken: Benaras e Bibhishika	Ekenbabu	Joydip Mukherjee	[27]
	Chandrabindoo	Uncle Paw	Raja Chanda	[28]
	Santa †	TBA	Anshuman Pratyush	[29]

Web series

Year	Film	Role	Director	Ref.
2018–2025	Eken Babu web series (Season 1–8)	Ekenbabu	Anirban Mallik, Anupam Hari, Abhijit Chowdhury, Joydip Mukherjee, Surajit Chatterjee
2019	Water Bottle		Joydip Mukherjee
2020	Lalbazaar		Sayantan Ghosal
	Feluda Pherot (Season 1)	Jatayu	Srijit Mukherji
2021	Maradonar Juto		Mainak Bhaumik
	Robindronath Ekhane Kawkhono Khete Aashenni	OC Tapan Sikder	Srijit Mukherji
2022	Byadh	Bishu	Abhirup Ghosh
	Shob Choritro	Abinash Mitra	Debasish Sen Sharma
	Feludar Goyendagiri (Season 1)	Jatayu	Srijit Mukherji
2023	Dugdugi		Joydeep Mukherjee
2024	Feludar Goyendagiri (Season 2)	Jatayu	Srijit Mukherji
	Fasco	Sujit Bose	Anjana Basu

Awards

• West Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards- Best Performance In A Negative Role for FIR^[30]
• OTTplay Award Best Actor in a Comic Role –Series for Eken Babu -Season 6^[31]