Anirban Bhattacharya (born 7 October 1986) is an Indian actor, theatre actor, singer and director. Bhattyacharya won

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Sera Bangali Award in 2022. In 2017, Bhattacharya won WBFJA Awards for Best Promising Actor of The Year.

Career

His first successful theatre production was ''Debi Sarpamasta'', written by

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, directed by

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), ''Jara Agun Lagay'', ''Bisorjan'', ''FM Mahanagar'', ''Karu Basana'', ''Awdyo Shesh Rajani'', ''Athoi'' etc. In 2017, he got the Mahindra Excellence Theatre Awards (META) as Best Actor in a Leading Role (Male) for ''Awdyo Shesh Rajani''. In 2015, he started his film career with the

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telefilm ''Kader Kuler Bou''. He got fame for his character as Bishan Roy from the film '' Eagoler Chokh''. For playing this role, he was picked up as the

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for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 2017. In 2019, He got his first Best Actor Award for the role of ''Nikhilesh Chowdhury'' from the movie

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which was immensely praised by critics and audiences. He made his directorial debut through the Bengali crime drama web series '' Mandaar'', which is inspired by

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. His second direction Ballavpurer Roopkotha was released on 21 October 2022.

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has voted him as one of the top 10 ''Most Desirable Men'' in 2017.

Early life

Anirban Bhattacharya was born on 7 October 1986 in

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. He did his schooling from Nirmal Hriday Ashram Catholic Church High School in

. After that, in 2004 he moved to

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to study

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from

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. He completed his Master's in drama and received the Young Artist Scholarship in 2009 from the cultural ministry of the

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Filmography

Bhattacharya started his career in

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s in 2015 with ''Zee Bangla Cinema Originals'' such as ''Kader Kuler Bou'', ''Jodi Balo Hyan'' and ''Ebhabeo Phire Asa Jay''. He hit the big screen in

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's ''

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'' in a supporting role. In 2016, he appeared in

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's '' Eagoler Chokh'' portraying a different character named "Bishan Roy" and was appreciated for his performance. He received the BFJA ''Most Promising Actor Male'' award and the

for the ''Best Actor in a Supporting Role'' for essaying Bishan Roy in that film. Bhattacharya was awarded with the ''Best Debutant Actor ''award at the International Bengali Film Award (IBFA). He played the role of a radio jockey in ''

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''. He was awarded the ''Ajeyo Samman 2017'' by the newspaper ''

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'' for becoming the most praised actor in 2016.

Theatre

He acted in various theater productions between 2005 and 2010. In 2008, Bhattacharya acted in the workshop based theatre production ''Jhunki'' (The Risk), conducted by Steve Clorfiene, student of Yergi Grotowski. It was a collaboration of American Council and

. He acted in three productions like ''Raja Lear'', ''Debi Sarpomosta'' and ''Chandragupta''. He resigned from Minerva Repertoire in January 2013 and started his career as a professional freelance theatre actor.

Direction

In 2010, he formed his theatre group, ''Sangharam Hatibagan''. He directed ''Guru'', ''Chowmatha'', ''Udorniti'' (a short play translated from the play ''Out At Sea'' by '' Slawomir Mrozek'' ), ''Pontu Laha 2.0'' (an adaptation of the play''

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'' by ''

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''), and ''Mondar'' (an adaptation of William Shakespeare's ''

''). In 2022 he directed Bengali movie Ballavpurer Rupkotha which was an adaption of a play of same name, created by legendary Bengali theater personality Badal Sarkar.

Television

Anirban has worked in a non fictional television comedy show '' Apur Sangsar'', along with

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, which has started to air on

from 26 January. He has appeared in popular shows of

like '' Didi No. 1'' as guest and Dadagiri Unlimited Season 7 as celebrity contestant. The play ''Awdyo Shesh Rajni'' (Anirban as lead) was aired on

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. He hosted a crime show ''Hushiar Bangla'' on

. Anirban has now starred in a limited television series '' Bhoomikanya'' (approximately 200 episodes), which is produced by

and has started to air on

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. In this series, Anirban has played the role of the male lead "Ankush", who is a fearless and honest forest ranger.

Web series

Anirban works on the web series '' Byomkesh'', where he portrays the title character, Satyaneshi

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, written by

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. This brand new web series airs on Hoichoi Originals (a web platform of

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) from 14 October 2017.

Playback and Voice-over

In 2018, for the first time Anirban has done a playback in his career. The versatile actor has lent his voice for the song "Kichchu Chaini Ami" from the movie '' Shahjahan Regency'', which is directed by

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. He has delivered sheer magic in his playback debut and the song has gained immense popularity ever since it was released. The actor who is not a professional singer was stunned and overwhelmed with the response. He also has lent his voice for the song "Priyotoma" from the movie "Dracula Sir" in 2020. This song is also very beautiful and the audience praised his work.

Playback

* "Kichchu Chaini Ami" from '' Shahjahan Regency'' * "Priyotama" from '' Dracula Sir'' * "Badal Sircar Er Gaan" from '' Ballabhpurer Roopkotha'' * "Bibagi Phone" from '' Dilkhush'' * "Dana Kata Pori" from '' Indubala Bhaater Hotel'' * "Jaaney Hridoy Reprise" from '' Mitthye Premer Gaan'' * "Tomar Aamar Golpo" from '' The Cloud and the Man'' (Manikbabur Megh)

Voice-over

* Karnasubarner Guptodhon * '' Dilkhush''

Awards

Theatre * Nirad Baran Memorial Award * BIG Bangla Rising Star award from BIG FM for the best theatre actor (Male) for the role of

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in the drama ''Raja Lear'' by

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. * Syamal Sen Smriti Samman by theatre group Swapna Sandhani for his dual role in ''Devi Sarpamasta''. * Sudrak Samman for Best Actor for ''Devi Sarpamasta''. * Sundaram Samman * META Award for Excellence in theatre, Best Actor for playing Amiyo in ''Awdya Shesh Rajani'' in 2017 * Zee Bangla Gaurab Award for Best Actor for his dual role in '' Nagamandala'' in 2014 Film * WBFJA Awards for Best Promising Actor of The Year in 2017 *

for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for playing Bishan Roy in '' Eagoler Chokh'' in 2017 * Ajeyo Samman by ''

'' newspaper in 2017 * Best Debutant Actor award at International Bengali Film Award (IBFA). * Bharat Bangladesh Film Awards-(BBFA) for Best Playback Singer( Male) for the song ''Kichchu Chaini Ami'' from the movie Shahjahan Regency in 2019 * Telangana Bengali Film Festival(TBFF Aayna)- Best Actor Award for the movie

in 2019 * WBFJA Awards for Best Playback Singer( Male) for the song ''Kichchu Chaini Ami'' from the movie Shahjahan Regency in 2020 * WBFJA Awards for Best Actor in a Comic Role for the movie Bibaho Obhijaan in 2020 *

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for Best Actor (Popular Choice) for '' Dwitiyo Purush (film)'' in 2022 *

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for Best Actor (Critic's Choice) for '' Dwitiyo Purush (film)'' in 2022 OTT * Hoichoi Awards- Most loved Character for the role of ''Byomkesh Bakshi'' from Byomkesh web series in 2020 *

Anandalok Awards Anandalok Puraskar or Anandalok Awards ceremony is an award ceremony for Bengali film in India. The '' Anandalok'', only film magazine in Bengali language, published from Ananda Publishers and ''Ananda Bazar Patrika'' presents this award (Purask ...

for Best Director of An Web-Series for Mandaar in 2022 * OTTplay Award for Best Dialogue (Series) for Mandaar in 2022 Others *

Sera Bangali Award: 2022

References

External links

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