Bhaswar Chatterjee

Bhaswar Chatterjee (born 8 March 1975) is a Bengali film and television actor.^[1][2] He attended high school at South Point School and graduated in bioscience from Asutosh College. Before getting his first job in GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals in 1996, he obtained a diploma in marketing and sales management from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan.

Bhaswar Chatterjee
Chatterjee in 2012
Born	(1975-03-08) 8 March 1975 (age 50) Calcutta, West Bengal, India (present-day Kolkata)
Nationality	Indian
Education	Graduated in bio-science
Alma mater	Ashutosh College Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan South Point School
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1998–present
Known for	Playing Batukeshwar Dutt in The Legend of Bhagat Singh (2002)
Spouse	Nabamita Chatterjee ​ ​ (m. 2014; div. 2020)​
Parents	Nripen Chatterjee (father) Aparna Chatterjee (Late) (mother)
Relatives	Bheemchandra Chatterjee (great grandfather)

In 1998, his first appearance on television was in Jaltaranga followed by Bishnu Pal Chowdhury's Kanakanjali. Chatterjee established himself in the Bollywood industry with The Legend of Bhagat Singh in 2002 by playing Batukeshwar Dutt, and with the daily soap Janmobhumi in 2003. As of 2020^[update], he has appeared in 57 daily soaps and a total of 111 serials in the Bengali language.

He was a member of Indian censor board from 2014 to 2017.^{[3][better source needed]}

Early life

He was a student of South Point School for his high school years, and graduated in bioscience from Asutosh College.^{[citation needed]} Before getting his first job in GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals in 1996, he obtained a diploma in marketing and sales management from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan.^[4]

Family

Bhaswar's great grandfather, the late Bhimchandra Chatterjee, though an electrical engineer, was the architect of the Benares Hindu university (on insistence of the late Madan Mohan Malviya). His Elements of applied electricity books were in circulation a few years back. He was the Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Benaras Hindu University in 1936.^[5]

Though he belongs to a family of four generations of engineers, he always wanted to be an actor. Probably his acting genes comes from his mother's side whose uncle Devi Mukherjee was a star actor in the 1940s.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography and television

Some of the major daily soaps featuring Chattopadhyay which garnered high "TRPs"^[a] (ratings) are Joy Baba Loknath,^[7] Shree Krishna Bhakto Meera,^[8] as well as:

• Janmobhumi
• Ek Akasher Niche
• Sonar Horin
• Maa....Tomay Chara Ghum Ashena (Maa)
• Agnipariksha
• Ishti Kutum
• Keya Patar Nouko
• Bhakter Bhogobaan Shri Krishna
• O m Sai Ram
• Binni Dhaner Khoi
• Kache Aye Shoi
• Potol Kumar Gaanwala
• Karunamoyee Rani Rashmoni
• Advocate Anjali Awasthi

OTT

Bhaswar also is being active on ott platforms like Hoichoi, he did the successful Paap season 1&2 and Six and The Adventures of Gogol for Addatimes. His next ott release is Roktokarobi for Zee5 streaming from 3 February.Bhaswar played Ajit for the super successful Byomkesh O Pinjrapol for Hoichoi.On 20 April his first Hindi Webseries Tooth Pari When love bites started streaming on Netflix.

Films

• The Legend of Bhagat Singh (2002)
• Alo (2003)
• Raj Mahal (2005)
• Rabibarer Bikalbel (2006)
• Shakal Sandhya (2006)
• Ballygunge Court (2007)
• Krishnakanter Will (2007)
• Ratbhor (2007)
• Blood (2008)
• Chirosathi (2008)
• Eti (2008)
• Takkar (2008)
• Royal Bengal Rahasya (2011)
• Teen Tanaya (2011)
• Chupkatha (2012)
• Jekhane Bhooter Bhoy (2012)
• Shudhu Tomake Chai (2012)
• Namte Namte (2013)
• Bhoot Bhooturey Samuddurey (2014)
• Gogoler Kirti (2014)
• Abby Sen (2015)
• Amar Prithivi (2015)
• Bhrasto Taara (2015)
• Binodoner Du Adhyay (2015)
• Goraa (2015)
• Onnyo Apola (2015)
• Manabpremi Mahapurush (2016)
• Adhunik (2017)
• Comrade (2017)
• Tumi Robe Nirobe (2017)^[9]
• Aha Re (2019)
• Bobbyr Bondhura (2019)
• Mahalaya (2019)
• Micchil (2020)^[10]

● Mahanagar theke Doore (2023)

Television

• Ek Akasher Niche (2002-2005)
• Agnipariksha (2008)
• Maa....Tomay Chara Ghum Ashena (Maa) (2009 - 2014)
• Potol Kumar Gaanwala (2015 - 2017)
• Jai Kali Kalkattawali (2017 - 2019)
• Binni Dhaner Khoi (2009)
• Ishti Kutum (2011 - 2015)
• Keya Patar Nouko (2011)
• Kache Aye Shoi (2012)
• Bhakter Bhagaban Shri Krishna (2017)
• Karunamoyee Rani Rashmoni (2019-2021)
• Joy Baba Loknath (2019)
• Shree Krishna Bhakto Meera (2021)
• Gouri Elo (2022)
• Godhuli Alap (2022)
• Geeta LL.B (2023–Present)
• Jogomaya (2024)
• Advocate Anjali Awasthi (2024-present)

Philanthropy

Bhaswar Chatterjee runs an NGO, "Aparna Foundation" in his mother's name, which assists the poor and needy. The foundation started collecting used clothes and accessories and distributed them to different parts of Kolkata and its outskirts. Later in 2021 during pandemic, it worked extensively in Kolkata where it fed the pavement dwellers for continuous 22 days along with Puri, Katra and specially Kashmir.The Ngo supplied a month’s ration to ghorawalas and pitthuwalas of Vaishnodevi Temple, to the houseboat caretakers in Srinagar, helped in marriage of a Kashmiri girl, build a house for a poor family. It also helps a number of girl children with studies in Kashmir.^[11]

Notes

1. TRPs are "Television Ratings Points", a viewing audience metric used in India.^[6]