Subrat Dutta

Subrata Dutta (born 16 November 1975) is an actor who appears in Indian films. He is best known for his role in Bollywood films like Talaash, Tango Charlie, Zameen, The Shaukeens, Rakhcharitra, Bhootnath Returns and Bengali films Chaturanga,^[1] Bibar and Jor.

Subrata Dutta
Subrata Dutta in 2018
Born	(1975-11-16) 16 November 1975 (age 49) Bankura, West Bengal
Nationality	Indian
Alma mater	National School of Drama
Occupation	Actor
Height	5 ft 8 in (173 cm)
Spouse(s)	Robijita Gogoii ​ ​ (m. 2006; div. 2018)​
Children	1

Early life and education

Subrat Dutta^[2] was born in Bankura district of West Bengal. Eldest of three brothers, he completed his schooling from Bankura Christian Collegiate School and bachelor's degree from Bankura Sammilani College with major in Zoology.

Hailing from a non-filmy background Subrat Dutta^[3] had no planning to join films and he was preparing for his MBA, when suddenly an advertisement about a theatre workshop caught his attention. The 40 day long workshop organised by National School of Drama in Berhampore, West Bengal made him change his mind and he decided to join the school. After completing his master's degree from National School of Drama he received a scholarship from Charles Wallace Trust, New Delhi and joined Central School of Speech and Drama, London. Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Swanand Kirkire and Chittaranjan Tripathy were his National School of Drama batchmates.

He started his acting career as a theatre artist for NSD Repertory Company^[4] and played lead role in 35 plays before joining films.

Subrat Dutta^[5] has learnt dance from PranatI Sengupta and continued to take part in Tagore Dance Drama. He tried to learn Kathak but left after few months. He has also worked in amateur "Jatra".

Acting career

He made silver screen debut with Hindi film Karvaan^[6] by Pankaj Butalia as the main protagonist in 1999. His first Bengali film was Uttara by Buddhadev Dasgupta where he played a small role of a Hindu militant.

In the beginning of his career he has worked for many television series too. His work was noticed in Bengali teleseries Shudhu Tomari Jonyo.^[7] He has worked in few episodes of the series "Tehreer…Munshi Premchand Ki”^[8] by Gulzar, based on stories of Munsi Premchand directed . He was also featured in few episodes of the thriller series Kagaar on Sahara One. Later he returned to television once with Yash Raj Films series Powder in 2010. After making his debut in both Bollywood and Bengali film, he went on to work in both the industries together. Bollywood films like 88 Antop Hill (2003), Zammen (2003) and Bengali film Swapner Feriwala (2002) were some of his early works.

Subrat Dutta^[9]’s fame came with his portrayal of a common man Biresh in Bengali film Bibar directed by Subrata Sen, based on Samaresh Basu’s novel with the same name in the year 2006. He won Best Actor at the Osian’s Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema His next Bengali ventures Jor (2008) and Chaturanga (2008) were completely different from Bibar, that proved his prowess as an actor. He played the main villain Indrajit in Swapan Saha’s commercial film Jor, remake of the super hit Telugu film Okkadu, whereas Suman Mukhopadhay’s period drama Chaturanga^[10] was based on Rabindranath Tagore’s novel. He later also starred in the Hindi remake of Okkadu, Tevar^[11] (2015) in a different role, allowing Manoj Bajpayee to play the main villain.

In 2009 he was awarded Best Actor at Cairo International Film Festival, Egypt for his portrayal of the main protagonist Madholal in the film Madholal Keep Walking^[12][13] by Jai Tank.^[14] The film received positive reviews from critics and Subrat Dutta’s character was highly praised that gave him lead roles in many commercial and independent films in later years.

His next venture was Ram Gopal Varma’s magnum opus, Rakhcharitra part I and &II^[15] (2010), where he was noticed for playing the character of AK in Hindi & Telugu simultaneously. In the same year he appeared in Bengali films Achin Pakhi^[16] and Antim Shash Sundar^[17][18] opposite Indrani Haldar. He next worked in Talaash(2012), Bengali project Koyekti Meyer Golpo^[19] (2012), and some independent Hindi films like Oass (2012), Kaphal^[20] (2012) and Baromas^[21] (2013), before bagging the role of engineer ghost in super hit film Bhootnath Returns (2014). He next appeared as the main villain Bheera in Roar: Tigers of the Sundarbans^[11] (2014) based on tiger poaching in Sundarbans and film director Basu in Akshay Kumar starrer Bollywood film TheShaukeens^[11][22] (2014). In both the films his role received critical acclaim. He also appeared in films like Bumper Draw (2015), Charlie Kay Chakkar Mein (2015) and played lead role as ATS Chief in Sameer^[23][24] (2017) and Gandhian Divakar in Humne Gandhi Ko Mar Diya^[25] (2018). His next release was multilimgual III Smoking Barrels^[26] where he played the character of a Bangladeshi refugee^[27] earned him immense applause from pan Indian audience and critics. His character Mukhtar^[28][29] turns the victim of illegal Elephant poaching where his every move and actions got praised by the critics.

Subrat Dutta was part of Bengali popular series Byomkesh also. He played a noticeable role in Har Har Byomkesh in 2015. Later he played Ajit for Byomkesh^[30] series of popular Bengali online channel Hoichoi.^[31] He has played the lead character in the emotional drama Bhairavi^[32] which was released exclusively on Muvizz.com in 2016. Apart from Bollywood and Bengali films he has also appeared in Marathi film Lalbaugchi Rani (2016), Bhojpuri films Tujhse Laagi Lagan, Pistol Ego Prem Kahani and American production English language film Behind the Trees.^[33]

Subrat Dutta has acted in more than 45 films. Most of his films like Uttara, Kaphal: The Wild Berries,^[34] Chaturanga, Bibar, Madholal Keep Walking^[13] were shown in prestigious National & International Festivals & also won couple of prestigious National and International awards. He has often been referred 'chameleon' as he changed his appearance for every film and experimented with his look for each character he played.

Aasma^[35] by Sudipto Sen^[36], T for Tajmahal by Kireet Khurana, Bengali film Sitara^[37][38] opposite Raima Sen and Brishti tomake Dilam^[37][38][39] opposite Jaya Ahsan are some of his upcoming films.

Subrat Dutta appears in TV and web commercials regularly. Some of his notable commercials are Parle G,^[40] Wonder cement,^[41] Aircel IP^[42]L Commercial, OLX.^[43] and Google Paise.^[44]

Personal life

Subrat Dutta is a Yoga expert^[45] and practitioner. He was married to theatre director Robijita Gogoii from 2006 to 2018 whom he met in National School of Drama. After long year of courtship they got married on 29 August 2006. Together they have a daughter named Aatreyi born on 8 June 2010.

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Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Language	Role	Director
1999	Karwaan[6]	Hindi	Gautam
2000	Uttara	Bengali	As Hindu militant
2001	Lajja	Hindi	Cameo
2002	Swapner Feriwala	Bengali	Shome	Subrata Sen
	Dharini	Hindi
2003	88 Antop Hill	Hindi	Prashant
	Sala Bandar![47]	Hindi Short film	Gulshan	Roop Singh Sood[48]
	Zameen	Hindi	Major Puri
2005	Tango Charlie	Hindi	As revolutionary leader
	Mangal Pandey: The Rising	Hindi	Mangal's friend
	Light House (Sudhu Tomari Jonno)	Bengali		Debangshu Sengupta
2006	Bibar	Bengali	Biresh	Subrata Sen
2008	Jor	Bengali	Indrajit
	Shaurya	Hindi	Colonel Malhotra	Samar Khan[49]
	Tomar Jonyo	Bengali	Rahul Roy	Nilanjan Banerjee
	Chaturanga	Bengali	Sachish
	10:10	Bengali	Apratim	Arin Paul[50]
2009	Thanks Maa	Hindi		Irfan Kamal
	Madholal Keep Walking[13]	Hindi	Madholal Dubey	Jai Tank[14]
2010	Achin Pakhi[16]	Bengali	Achin
	Antim Swash Sundar[18]	Bengali	Prem Sengupta	Kris Alin[51]
	Rakhta Charitra I	Hindi/Telugu	AK
	Rakhta Charitra II	Hindi/Telugu	AK
2012	Koyekti Meyer Golpo[19]	Bengali	Ashesh	[
	Oass	Hindi	Jhukki	Abhinav Shiv Tiwari[52]
	Taalash	Hindi	Shashi Nayak
	Lattoo[53]	Bengali	Aarjo	Ashish Roy[53]
2013	Meridian Lines[54]	Hindi	Romeo	Venod Mitra[55]
	Kaphal: Wild Berries[20]	Hindi	Kailash	Batul Mukhtiar[56]
	Baromas[21]	Hindi	Eknath Tanpure	Dhiraj Meshram[57]
	Target Kolkata[58]	Bengali	Surjo	Kartick Singh[58]
2014	Bhootnath Returns	Hindi	Engineer Ghost	Nitesh Tiwari
	ROAR: Tigers of the Sundarbans	Hindi	Bheera	Kamal Sadnah
	The Shaukeens	Hindi	Ranjit Basu	Abhishek Sharma
2015	Tevar	Hindi	Kaakdi	Amit Ravindernath Sharma
	Pakaram[59]	Bengali	Dipak	Shankar Debnath[60]
	Bumper Draw[61]	Hindi	Villium	Irshad Khan
	Charlie Kay Chakkar Mein	Hindi	Sohail	Manish Srivastav[62]
	Har Har Byomkesh	Bengali	Narmadashankar	Arindam Sil
2016	Ardhangini Ek Ardhsatya	Bengali	Sandeep	Reema Mukherjee
	Lalbaugchi Rani	Marathi	Drunk guy	Laxman Utekar[63]
	Bhairavi[32]	Hindi		Suhail Tatari[64]
2017	Sameer	Hindi	Desai, ATS Chief	Dakxin Bajrange[65]
2018	Humne Gandhi Ko Mar Diya	Hindi	Divakar	Naeem A Siddiqui
	W[66]	Hindi Short Film	unknown	Sushant Panda[66]
	III Smoking Barrels[26]	Multilingual	Mukhtar	Sanjib Dey[67]
2019	Dotara[68]	Bengali	Debdutta[69]	Amitabha Dasgupta[70]
	Sitara	Bengali	Manab Sarkar	Ashish Roy
	Brishti Tomake Dilam[39]	Bengali		Arnab Paul
	Dhuusar	Bengali	Prashanta Guha	Snehashish Mondal, Soumi Saha
	Junction Varanasi	Hindi	Sadhu's Associate	Dheeraj Pandit
	Josef – Born in Grace	Hindi	Josef	Susant Misra
	Behind the Trees	English	Navin	Vikram Jayakumar
	Dhumkkudiya	Hindi	Kamal	Nandlal Nayak
2020	Uraan	Bengali	Arif Alam	Tridib Raman
	Harami	Hindi	Dhiren Yvas	Shyam Madiraju
	Banaras Vanilla	Hindi		Sumit Mishra
	Lucknow Times	Hindi	Kallol Ghosh	Sudipto Sen
2020	Uraan	Bengali	Arif Alam	Tridib Raman
	Harami	Hindi	Dhiren Yvas	Shyam Madiraju
	Banaras Vanilla	Hindi		Sumit Mishra
	Lucknow Times	Hindi	Kallol Ghosh	Sudipto Sen
2023	Guthlee Ladoo[71]	Hindi	Mangru (father of Guthlee )	Ishrat R Khan
2024	Bastar: The Naxal Story	Hindi		Sudipto Sen

Upcoming Films

Year	Film	Language	Character	Director
Upcoming	T for Tajmahal	Hindi	Bansi	Kireet Khurana
	Lucknow Times[72]	Hindi	Kallol Ghosh	Sudipto Sen[36]
	Josef- Born In Grace[73][74][75]	Hindi	Josef	Susant Misra
	Aasma[35]	Hindi	Intekab	Sudipto Sen[36]
	He Man	Hindi	Jack	Puneet Issar
	Dhuusar (Grey)	Bengali	Prashanta Guha	Snehashish Mondal, Soumi Saha
	Behind the Trees[76]	English	Navin	Vikram Jayakumar[77]
	Flowers of the Mountain	Hindi	Parijat Mukherjee	Shuvro Roy
	Battle of Chhuriyaan	Hindi	Turram	Ravi Singh

TV series

Year	Title	Episodes/Character	Channel
2002-2003	Shudhu Tomari Jonyo[7]	Shankar Dada Onyo Rong[7]	Etv Bangla
2002-2003	Tehreer…Munsi Premchand Ki[8]	Namak Ka Daroga[8] Sawa Sher Gehu[78]	DD National[79]
2002	Kagaar	Operation Rameswaram	Sahara One
2010	Powder	As Zonal Inspector Bose	Sony Entertainment Television

Web series

He has played the character of a broker in Netflix Original Series Selection Day. He has also appeared as Ajit in Hoichoi TV’s popular show Byomkesh^[30] for three seasons from 2017-2018.

Year	Series	Character	Web channel
2018	Selection Day	Season 1: Broker	Netflix
2017-2018	Byomkesh	Season 1: Satyanweshi and Pather Kanta as Ajit/Makorshar Rosh and Arthamanartham as Ajit Season 2: Rokter Dag and Roktomukhi Nila as Ajit Season 3: Sajarur Kanta as Ajit	Hoichoi[80]
2019	Montu Pilot	Season 1	Hoichoi[80]
2020	Lalbazaar[81]	Season 1: A.C Port Gaurav Dutta	Zee5
	Shobdo Jobdo	Season 1: Dr. Amitabha Mitra	Hoichoi
	High	Season 1: Dr. Roy	MX Player
2022	Feludar Goyendagiri	Season 1:Mahadev Verma	Hoichoi
2023	Honeymoon (2023 web series)	Season 1: Shekhar	Klikk
2024	Kaantaye Kaantaye		ZEE5

Awards

• Best Actor: Cairo International Film Festival, Egypt, 2009
• Best Actor: at Osian's-Cinefan, New Delhi, 2006
• Best Actor: Dehradun International Film Festival, 2021^[82] (Josef – Born in Grace)
• Best Actor: Manikarnika International Film Festival, 2022^[83] (Josef – Born in Grace)