Krishnendu Adhikari

Krishnendu Adhikari

Born	Krishnendu Adhikari (1982-01-02) 2 January 1982 (age 43) Tamluk, West Bengal, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation(s)	Actor, Director, Producer in Theatre and Film
Years active	2012–present
Notable work	Ags'uddhi, Code Red, Mrityusangbad, Niruddesh/Adrift, Tope - The Bait, Jara Jege Thake, Indur O Manus, The Senapatis

Born in Tamluk, West Bengal, Adhikari is the youngest of three siblings. He completed his Bachelor's degree in English literature from Midnapore College, West Bengal.^[when?] In 2012, Adhikari began his career as an actor and photographer with the Rang Roop theatre group in Kolkata, India.^[1] Over the next five years, he trained as an actor. Adhikari also learned the Tamil martial art Kalaripayattu under Arka Mukhopadhyay.^[2]^{[relevant? – discuss]}

In 2016, Adhikari participated in the Bharat Rang Mahotsav theatre festival in Delhi, India, as actor and production manager in Rajar Mrityu (Bengali: রাজার মৃত্যু; directed by Sudipto Chatterjee)^[3] and Raajrokto (Bengali: রাজরক্ত, directed by Debasish Dutta).^[4] In the same year, Adhikari acted in two Bengali productions: Ags'uddhi (Bengali: আগশুদ্ধি; adapted from the Arthur Miller play The Crucible; directed by Sudipto Chatterjee) and Indur O Manush (Bengali: ইঁদুর ও মানুষ; adapted from the John Steinbeck novel Of Mice and Men; directed by Debasis Biswas).^[5] Adhikari's portrayal of Chhotu Mandi (Bengali: ছোটু মান্ডি), the lead character in Ags'uddhi, received critical acclaim.^[6] In 2018, Adhikari headlined a theatrical production titled Mrityusangbad (Bengali: মৃত্যুসংবাদ; a play by Mohit Chattopadhyay, directed by Partha Sarathi Raha).^[7]^[8] Following his participation in the "Stranger", Adhikari and his team travelled to Mysore, India, with Mrityusangbad as part of the 20th Bharat Rang Mahotsav festival in 2019.^[9]

In 2016, Adhikari co-founded Behala Project Prometheus with Indudipa Sinha. In 2017, they premiered Code Red - a theatre and dance presentation, adapted from Rabindranath Tagore's poem Sishutirtha (Bengali: শিশুতীর্থ ), directed by Sinha. Adhikari served as ensemble member, production manager, and assistant director to this critically hailed production,^[10] which travelled nationally as part of the 8th Theatre Olympics in Bhopal, India (2018)^[11] and the fifth C.G.K. Rashtriya Rangothsava in Bengaluru, India (2018).^[12]

Adhikari had his directorial debut at the Short and Sweet theatre festival in Kolkata in 2015 with a ten-minute play titled One Two Three.^[13]

In 2016, Adhikari acted in the Bengali film Tope - The Bait, directed by Buddhadeb Dasgupta,^[14] which travelled to the Toronto International Film Festival, the 60th BFI London Film Festival, and the 21st Busan International Film Festival.^[15] In 2017, Adhikari made his debut in the commercial Bengali Film Industry as a supporting character in Birsa Dasgupta's One.^[16] Adhikari has also featured in independent Bengali short films, including Niruddesh/Adrift (Bengali: নিরুদ্দেশ; directed by Saptarshi Bhattacharya) and Banshi (Bengali: বাঁশি; directed by Kaushik Sengupta).^[17] In 2018, Niruddesh/Adrift, with Adikari in the lead, was selected and screened as part of the Hyderabad Bengali Film Festival in Hyderabad, India,^[18] the India Shorts Competition organised by the 9th Jagran Film Festival in Delhi, India,^[19] and an international screening organised by The Tannenbusch House in Bonn, Germany.^[20]^[21] In 2019, Niruddesh/Adrift was selected to be screened as part of the Second South Asian Short Film Festival in Kolkata, India.^[22]

Adhikari, along with Behala Project Prometheus, premiered a Bengali theatre production in 2018 titled Jara Jege Thake (Bengali: যারা জেগে থাকে), with allegorical references to the present political climate in West Bengal and India.^[23]

In 2019, Adhikari starred in the first installment of a Bengali web series titled The Senapatis as sub-inspector G. R. Neogi on the Indian web entertainment platform Addatimes.^[24]^[25]

"... O Onyanya Kuyasha" (Bengali: ... ও অন্যান্য কুয়াশা) [Lead performer], premiered in 2022
Anandamath (Bengali: আনন্দমঠ) [Lead performer], premiered in 2018
Jara Jege Thake (Bengali: যারা জেগে থাকে) [Lead performer and producer with Behala Project Prometheus, premiered in 2018
Mrityusangbad (Bengali: মৃত্যুসংবাদ) [Lead performer], premiered in 2018
Ekti Shohoj Khuner Golpo (Bengali: একটি সহজ খুনের গল্প) [Lead performer and producer with Behala Project Prometheus, premiered in 2017^[26]
Code Red [Ensemble/lead performer, production manager, and assistant director with Behala Project Prometheus, premiered in 2017
Indur O Manush (Bengali: ইঁদুর ও মানুষ) [Performer], premiered in 2016^[27]
Ags'uddhi (Bengali: আগশুদ্ধি) [Lead performer], premiered in 2016
Ordhek Jeebon (Bengali: অর্ধেক জীবন) [Lead performer and producer with Behala Project Prometheus, premiered in 2016
Page Four/4 [Lead performer], premiered in 2016
Rajar Mrityu (Bengali: রাজার মৃত্যু) [Performer and production manager], premiered in 2015
A Good Deed for Mr. Stinky [Lead performer], premiered in 2015^[28]
One Two Three [Director], premiered in 2015
Raajrokto (Bengali: রাজরক্ত) [Lead performer], premiered in 2014

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