Joydip Mukherjee

This article is about the film director. For the cricketer, see Joydeep Mukherjee.

Joydip Mukherjee is an Indian film director, actor and writer primarily associated with Bengali Film Industry. He made his directorial debut with the daily soap Ekhane Aakash Neel. He gained recognition after directing multiple India-Bangladesh joint ventures including Shikari (2016) and Nabab (2017). He gained further recognition after directing all the seasons of Eken Babu series Season 6 onwards. He is best known for directing the Ekenbabu theatrical films - The Eken (2022), The Eken: Ruddhaswas Rajasthan (2023) and The Eken: Benaras e Bibhishika (2025).^[1][2]

Joydip Mukherjee
Nationality	Indian
Occupations	Director Writer Actor
Years active	2008–present
Notable work	Byomkesh The Eken Eken Babu series Shikari Nabab Chalbaaz Bhaijaan Elo Re The Eken: Ruddhaswas Rajasthan The Eken: Benaras e Bibhishika

Career

In 2008, Joydip started his career with directed television drama serial. Then he directed two more dramas. In 2016, he debuted as a film director with the project of Indo-Bangla joint production thriller drama film Shikari share with Zakir Hossain Simanto featuring Shakib Khan and Srabanti Chatterjee, which became the highest-grossing Bengali film of 2016.^[3][4]

Filmography

Soap opera

Year	Film	Director	Story writer	Actor	Notes	Ref.
2008	Ekhane Aakash Neel	Yes			Debuted in television series
2010	Gaaner Oparey	Yes
2014	Byomkesh	Yes

Films

Year	Film	Director	Story writer	Actor	Notes	Ref.
2015	Bhengchi			Yes
2016	Shikari[5]	Yes			First directed Bengali film and first collaboration between Shakib Khan and Joydip Mukherjee pair
	Amoler Cabin			Yes
2017	Nabab	Yes	Yes		Second collaboration between Shakib Khan and Joydip Mukherjee pair after the success of the film Shikari
2018	Chalbaaz[6]	Yes			Third collaboration between Shakib Khan and Joydip Mukherjee. Second time pairing between Shakib Khan and Subhashree Ganguly after Nabab
	Bhaijaan Elo Re[7]	Yes			Fourth collaboration between Shakib Khan and Joydip Mukherjee pair
	Tumi Sudhu Amar	Yes			Filming
2019	Sharate Aaj (Web series)			Yes	On ZEE5 Platform[8][9][10][11]
2020	Detective	Yes			Released 14 August 2020 on Hoichoi
2021	FIR	Yes
2021	Golondaaj			Yes
2021	Anusandhan			Yes
2021	Bikkhov			Yes
2022	The Eken	Yes
2023	The Eken: Ruddhaswas Rajasthan	Yes
2023	Shikarpur			Yes	ZEE5 Original web series
2023	Chhotolok			Yes	ZEE5 Original web series
2024	Kaantaye Kaantaye	Yes			ZEE5 Original web series
2025	The Eken: Benaras E Bibhishika	Yes