Koushik Sen (born 19 September 1968) is an Indian actor of film, television and theatre based in

Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , List of renamed places in India#West Bengal, the official name until 2001) is the Capital city, capital of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of West Bengal, on the eastern ba ...

. He is the director of the well-acclaimed theatre group Swapnasandhani. He has won the

BFJA awards Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards commonly referred as BFJA Awards, is given by The Bengal Film Journalists' Association. The BFJA is the oldest association of film critics in India, founded in 1937 to serve the developing film journalism ...

for best supporting actor for his performance in the

Mrinal Sen Mrinal Sen (''Beng.'' মৃণাল সেন; 14 May 1923 – 30 December 2018) was an Indian film director, and screenwriter known for his work primarily in Bengali, and few Hindi and Telugu language films. Regarded as one of the finest Ind ...

directed film ''Aamar Bhuvan''.

Personal life

Koushik Sen was born on 19 September 1968. He is the son of actress

Chitra Sen Chitra Sen is an Indian actress and dancer who works in Bengali language films and television series. She has worked mainly in theatres, but she has also worked in films and on television. She started her career under Jnyanesh Mukhopadhyay. She ...

and actor Shyamal Sen. He studied at the

Julien Day School Julien Day School (JDS) is a co-educational primary, secondary and senior secondary school based in Kolkata, West Bengal, India and its outskirts. It is run by The Julien Educational Trust, a private organisation of people of the Anglo-India ...

, and graduated from

Scottish Church College Scottish Church College is a college affiliated by Calcutta University, India. It offers selective co-educational undergraduate and postgraduate studies and is the oldest continuously running Christian liberal arts and sciences college in ...

, both in

. Sen is married to Reshmi Sen (a theatre personality) and has a son,

Riddhi Sen Riddhi Sen is an Indian film actor who predominantly works in Bengali films. He is a regular actor of the theatre group Swapnasandhani and is an alumnus of South Point school, Kolkata. In 2010, he received a special talent award from his school ...

Stage performance

From 1992, he is the director of Bengali theatre group '' Swapnasandhani''. The group has staged more than 35 plays and they mainly perform in Sujata Sadan. Koushik has acted with

Soumitra Chatterjee Soumitra Chatterjee (also spelt as Chattopadhyay; 16 June 193515 November 2020) was an Indian film actor, play-director, playwright, writer, thespian and poet. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors in the history of ...

in the play ''Tiktiki''. In 2010, the group staged the play '' Birpurush'', which was inspired by

Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore (; bn, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He resh ...

's poem, but it was a political play and dealt with the contemporary context of West Bengal. The play stirred up some controversies.

Works

Filmography

Plays

* ''Taraye Taraye'' based on

Srijato Srijato Bandopadhyay is an Indian poet of the Bengali language. He won the Ananda Puroskar in 2004 for his book ''Udanta Sawb Joker: All Those Flying Jokers''. In 2014, he won the Filmfare Awards East for Best Lyricist for the song 'Balir Shoh ...

's Tara Bhora Akasher Niche * ''Nirbhaya'' based on

Bertolt Brecht Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a ...

Mother Courage and Her Children ''Mother Courage and Her Children'' (german: Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder, links=no) is a play written in 1939 by the German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956), with significant contributions from Margarete Steffin. Four theatrica ...

* ''

Macbeth ''Macbeth'' (, full title ''The Tragedie of Macbeth'') is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It is thought to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those w ...

'' (also performed at

Bharat Rang Mahotsav Bharat Rang Mahotsav (BRM) (भारत रंग महोत्सव) or the National Theatre Festival, started in 1999, is the annual theatre festival organised by National School of Drama (NSD), New Delhi. The festival was started to showcas ...

) * ''Jal Chhabi'' (debut) * ''Tikitiki'' * ''Punoscho'' * ''Bhalo Rakkhosher Golpo''

Television

* ''Kalpurush'' * ''Asamapto'' (2005) * ''E Kamon Meye'' (2005) * ''Tiktiki'' * ''Uro Megh'' * ''

Gaaner Oparey ''Gaaner Oparey'' () is an Indian Bengali television serial which aired on Star Jalsha from 28 June 2010 to 16 April 2011. This TV musical marked the beginning of a yearlong celebration of the 150th birth anniversary of the great Indian poet Rab ...

'' * ''Swapath'' * ''Raaikishori'' (2014) * ''

Byomkesh (2014 TV series) ''Byomkesh'' was a 2014 Indian Bengali crime fiction television series based on the Bengali sleuth ''Byomkesh Bakshi'' created by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay. The series starred Gaurav Chakrabarty, Saugata Bandyopadhyay and Ridhima Ghosh as Byom ...

'' * '' Sindoorkhela'' *Moinaker er Upakhyan * '' Godhuli Alap''

Web series

Awards

*2003 BFJA Award in the category best actor in supporting role, for the film Aamar Bhuvan.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sen, Kaushik Living people Male actors in Bengali cinema Bengali male actors Bengali Hindus Film directors from Kolkata Male actors from Kolkata Scottish Church College alumni University of Calcutta alumni Indian theatre directors Indian male stage actors 1968 births Bengali theatre personalities Indian male film actors 20th-century Indian male actors 21st-century Indian male actors