Chittaranjan Tripathy

Chittaranjan Tripathy (born in 1971^[1]) is an Indian actor, director, writer and music director who predominantly works in Hindi and Odia films. He is best known for his role as Trivedi in the Netflix series Sacred Games.

Chittaranjan Tripathy
Tripathy while presenting film Courtroom Nautanki in IFFI, 2010
Director of National School of Drama
Incumbent
Assumed office 6 October 2023
Preceded by	Ramesh Chandra Gaur
Personal details
Born	Chandabali, Bhadrak, Odisha, India
Height	5 ft 7 in (170 cm)
Education	Ravenshaw College University of Hyderabad National School of Drama Guildford School of Acting
Occupation	Actor, director, writer, music director, lyricist

Early life and education

Tripathy was born in Chandabali in Odisha. He did his graduation from Ravenshaw College, Cuttack & completed his master's in sociology from University of Hyderabad in 1992.^[2] Further, he acquired a Diploma in Acting from the prestigious NSD, Delhi in 1996.^[3] Actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui was his batchmate there. He has done a specialization course in musical theater direction from Guildford School of Acting, London under a Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship.^[4]

Career

In 2007, Tripathy came to the Odia movie industry with his film Dhauli Express, for which he was producer, director, scriptwriter, music director, lyricist and playback singer. The film received three Odisha State Film Awards. He made another movie Mukhyamantri in 2009. Other than this he has made^{[clarification needed]} more than 50 plays,^{[citation needed]} including the NSD Rep's premiere production of Taj Mahal Ka Tender (for which he directed as well as wrote lyrics and music).^[5][6][7][1] He has directed episodes of television soaps Dhund Legi Manjil Hume, Ye isk he, Jaani Pehchani Si Ajnabi, Mano Ya Na Mano, and Savdhan India.^[8] He has acted in Hindi movies Delhi 6, Fantom, Sandar, Talvar, and Tera mera tedha medha.^[9] Tripathy has composed over 500 songs for plays.^[8] His last success was playing the role of Trivedi in the popular Netflix web-series Sacred Games. He also played the negative character in the latest ALT Balaji and ZEE5 web-series M.O.M - Mission Over Mars (2019). In 2020, he starred in Odia movie Adrushyam made by S3 Movies along with Samaresh Routray, Saanu, Ankita Mishra and Lipsa Mishra.^[10]

On 6 October 2023, Chittaranjan Tripathy became the Director of his own alma mater, National School of Drama.^[11]

Honours and awards

• 2007 - Mohana Sundara Dev Goswami Award - Dhauli Express
• 2007 - Odisha State Film Award for Best Music Director - Dhauli Express
• 2007 - Odisha State Film Award for Best Singer - Dhauli Express
• 2016 - Odisha State Film Award for Best Comedian - Love You Jessica

Filmography

Films

Year	Film	Role	Director	Notes
2007	Dhauli Express	Munna Bhai MBA	Chittaranjan Tripathy	Story Writer, Director, Producer, Lyricist, Music Director
2009	Mukhyamantri	Naidu Babu	Chittaranjan Tripathy	Story Writer, Director, Producer, Lyricist, Music Director
2009	Delhi 6	Ramleela Announcer	Rakesh Omprakash Mehra
2015	Phantom	Prisoner	Kabir Khan
2015	Shaandaar	Vinay Arora	Vikas Bahl
2015	Talvar	Basu	Meghna Gulzar
2015	Tera Mera Tedha Medha	Mangal	Chittaranjan Tripathy
2016	Pramod Gupta J.E.	Promod Gupta	Chittaranjan Tripathy
2017	Shubh Mangal Saavdhan	Mudit's father	R.S. Prasanna
2017	Mukkabaaz	Shravan Railway Boss	Anurag Kashyap
2017	Jagga Jasoos	Mr. Bahadur	Anurag Basu
2018	Prem Kumar: Salesman of the year	Sarojkant	Tapas Sargharia
2019	Kanpuriye	Dr. Mohan Mishra	Ashish Aryan
2020	Indoo Ki Jawani	Uncle Pran Loha	Abir Sengupta
2022	Dasvi	Tandon; IAS officer and Ganga Ram's secretary	Tushar Jalota
2024	Yodha	S N Dhingra	Sagar Ambre, Pushkar Ojha
2024	Do Patti	Advocate Kumar	Kanika Dhillon

Television

Year	Title	Role	Network	Notes
2018–present	Sacred Games	Trivedi	Netflix
2019	M.O.M. - Mission Over Mars	Binayak Mohanty	ALTBalaji, ZEE5
2020–present	Raktanchal	Bechan Singh	MX Player
2021-	Runaway Lugai	Dashrath Pandey	MX Player
2023-	Farzi	Lawyer Kumar	Amazon Prime