Subhankar Chattopadhyay

Subhankar Chattopadhyay (Bengali: শুভঙ্কর চট্টোপাধ্যায়; born 1977) is an Indian director, scriptwriter, content creator, and producer. He is a non-fiction show creator in Tollywood.He is known for directing television shows, including Dadagiri Unlimited, Dance Bangla Dance, Mirakkel and others.

Subhankar Chattopadhyay
Subhankar Chattopadhyay with Host Sourav Ganguly on the set of Dadagiri Unlimited Season 4
Born	1977 (age 47–48)1977 Baruipur, South 24 Parganas, kolkata, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation(s)	Film and television director

He directed the film Haanda & Bhonda (2010), starring Mithun Chakraborty. Chattopadhyay and his team became known in history of the world television to air their shows twice for a duration of 10 hours continuously, for Super Singer Junior finale and audition.^[1][2][3][4] He introduced remote work for a non-fiction singing reality show, Super Singer, amid the COVID-19 pandemic in India. He directed the show where the participants, hosts, and jury shot their respective parts with their mobile phones from the safety of their homes.^[5][6] He has directed 'Mohabijoyer Mohanayok', an event organized to celebrate 50 years of Bangladesh Independence & 100 years birth anniversary of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. All the prominent cultural personas like Rezwana choudhury Bannya to Swadhin Bangla betar artists were in the show, prime minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina and president of Bangladesh, Mr. Abdul Hamid and India, Mr. Ram Nath Kovind and many more esteemed guests were there to witness the show. Show was on air live in all the government and private satellite channels of Bangladesh.

Life and career

Chattopadhyay was born in Baruipur, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, in 1977. He did his schooling from Baruipur High School. He graduated from City College, Kolkata. He started his career at Little Magazine, forayed into electronic media as a scriptwriter following which he worked for Zee Bangla as an executive producer for many years before directing successful non-fiction shows.

Works

Television

Show	Channel	Notes
Mirakkel	Zee bangla	Executive Producer. Director, Producer
Dance Bangla Dance	Zee bangla	Executive Producer. Director
Dadagiri Unlimited[7]	Zee bangla	Director
Star of Bengal	Zee bangla	Director
Ke Hobe Biggest Fan	Zee bangla	Director
Banglar Shera Poribar	Zee bangla	Director
Apur Sangsar	Zee bangla	Director
Detective 2015	Zee bangla	Director, Producer
Kotha O Kahini[8]	Star Jalsha	Director
Bhyabachaka[9]	Star Jalsha	Director
Amra Na Ora	Star Jalsha	Director
Amar Bor Superstar	Star Jalsha	Director
Ebar Jombe Moja	Star Jalsha	Director, Producer
Super Singer Junior	Star Jalsha	Director, Producer
Dance Dance Junior	Star Jalsha	Director, Producer
Super Singer [10][11]	Star Jalsha	Director, Producer
Singing Star	Ruposhi Bangla	Director
Bindass Dance	Colors Bangla	Director, Producer
Abbulish	Colors Bangla	Director
Rannaghore Rockstar	Colors Bangla	Director, Producer
Gaaner Gunto[12]	Colors Bangla	Director, Producer
Pratibhara Dadagiri	Zee Sarthak	Director

Web series

Webseries	Year	Cast	Platform	Extra Notes
Case Jaundice[13][14][15][16][17]	2020	Ankush Hazra, Parambrata Chatterjee & Anirban Chakraborty	Hoichoi	Director
Tram Depot	Yet to release		Hoichoi	Director

Filmography

Film	Year	Cast	Extra Notes
Handa and Bhonda	2010	Mithun Chakraborty, Aritra Dutta Banik, Biswajit Chakraborty and Supriya Devi.	Director
Pataligunjer Putul Khela	2024	Soham Majumdar, Paran Bandopadhyay, Ditipriya Roy, Rajatava Dutta, Tanima Sen, Mir Afsar Ali and Dipankar De.	Director

Events

EVENT	NOTES	EXTRA NOTES
Mohabijoyer Mohanayok[18]	Director	This is known to be one of the most prestigious events in Bangladesh. This was organized to celebrate 50 years of Bangladesh Independence & 100 years birth anniversary of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Mirchi Music Awards Bangla	Director	Mirchi Music Awards Bangla are presented annually by Radio Mirchi to honour both artistic and technical excellence of professionals in the Bengali language film music industry of India.
Joyo Hey	Director	The entire Bengali film and television fraternity gather for a star-studded evening to celebrate the selfless efforts of the Kolkata Police
Platinum Pancham	Director	An Event celebrating the 75th birth anniversary of R.D.Burman
Jalsha Doshe Dosh	Director, Producer	On completion of 10 years of Star Jalsha
Zee Bangla Gourab Sonman	Director
Star Jalsha Poribar Awards	Director
Star jalsha Poribar Awards	Director, Producer	2021
Bangla Cine Carnival	Director	Celebration of 100 years of Bengali cinema with soul-stirring performances and a musical extravaganza in the charming country of Thailand.
Telly Academy Awards	Director	The West Bengal Tele Academy Awards cover the entire array of television productions, rewarding excellence in production, programming, photography, and technology, among others.
Gaan Priti	Director	One of Bengal's biggest Musical Concert, where six renowned musicians mesmerized everyone with their distinct styles, streamed on Hoichoi

Literary works

He has been practicing his art of writing for years; his writing has also been published in the Desh magazine quite a few numbers of times. In between the year 2000–2003, his literary pieces 'Tobu j Ami Jiggasha Chinho' and 'Prem Porjoton phaad' was published. Beside this, he was also an editor of a magazine called Poddyo Chorcha.^[19]