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

Kolkata Kolkata, also known as Calcutta ( its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal. It lies on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River, west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary ...

. He is the founder and director of the theatre group

Swapnasandhani Swapnasandhani (Bengali: ) is a Bengali theater group from Kolkata. The group was founded on 29 May 1992. Swapnasandhani has been marked by the acting and direction of Kaushik Sen. Performance From 2006, Swapnasandhani began performing on a r ...

. He won the Bengal Film Journalists' Association Award for best supporting actor for his performance in the

Mrinal Sen Mrinal Sen ( ; 14 May 1923 – 30 December 2018) was a Bengali film director and screenwriter known for his work primarily in Cinema of West Bengal, Bengali, and a few Hindi cinema, Hindi and Telugu cinema, Telugu language films. Regarded as on ...

directed film ''Aamar Bhuvan''. He was awarded Girish Purashkar 2023 by the Cultural Department of the Government of West Bengal for his extraordinary contributions to theatre. In 2024 he was awarded Telly Academy Best Actor Award for Godhuli Alap series.

Personal life

Kaushik Sen was born into a

Baidya Baidya or Vaidya is a Bengali Hindu community located in the Bengal region of Indian subcontinent. A caste (''jāti'') of Ayurvedic physicians, the Baidyas have long had pre-eminence in society alongside Brahmins and Kayasthas. In the coloni ...

Brahmin family on 19 September 1968. He is the son of actress Chitra Mondal Sen 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, and operates four branches in Kolkata (Elgin Road), ...

, 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 Asia. ...

, both in

. Sen is married to Reshmi Sen and has a son,

Riddhi Sen Riddhi Sen is an Indian film actor who predominantly works in Bengali films along with a few Hindi films. He is the youngest actor in India to receive the National Film Award for Best Actor for his performance in the film ''Nagarkirtan''. He i ...

. He is a Vice President of the "West Bengal Motion Picture Artists' Forum" along with

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and Sumanta Mukherjee.

Stage performance

Since 1992 he has been the director of Bengali theatre group ''

''. The group has staged around fifty plays and perform regularly in all the major theaters at Kolkata and in major countries all around the globe. Their most recent plays are ''Hamlet'' and ''Taray Taray''. They recently performed Hamlet at Chicago NABC2024. It was hugely appreciated with standing ovation. Soon they will travel Australia with their newest production "Andhar Ghonay". In 2010, the group staged the play '' Birpurush'', which was inspired by

Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Thakur (; anglicised as Rabindranath Tagore ; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengalis, Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter of the Bengal Renai ...

's poem. It was a political play and dealt with the contemporary context of West Bengal. The play stirred up some controversies. Sen appeared with

Soumitra Chatterjee Soumitra Chatterjee (also spelt as Chattopadhyay; ; 19 January 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 histor ...

in the play ''Tiktiki''.

Filmography

Sen made his acting debut in 1979 with

's ''

Ek Din Pratidin ''Ek Din Pratidin'' ( Bengali: এক দিন প্রতিদিন, lit: "A Day Like Any Other," English title: "And Quiet Rolls the Dawn") is a 1979 Bengali drama film directed by Mrinal Sen, who also wrote the screenplay based on an Am ...

'' as a child actor. He has acted in more than seventy films. His best known performances in films are: ''ChalChitra (1981), Wheel Chair'' (1995), ''Aamaar Bhuvan'' (2002), ''Shunyo E Buke'' (2005), ''BankuBabur Bandhu'' (2006), ''Dwando'' (2009), ''Iti Mrinalini'' (2011), ''Charulata 2011'' (2011), ''Piyalir Password'' (2012), ''Abar Byomkesh'' (2012), ''Goynar Baksho'' (2013), ''Rupkotha Noy'' (2013), ''Kolkata Calling'' (2014), ''Bhengchi'' (2015), ''Babar Naam Gandhiji'' (2015), ''Rajkahini'' (2015), ''Kahaani 2'' (2016), ''Lion'' (2016), ''Zulfiqar'' (2016), ''Jawker Dhan'' (2017), ''Durga Sahay'' (2017), ''Raktokarobi'' (2017), ''Laboratory'' (2018), ''Rasogolla'' (2018), ''Barunbabur Bandhu'' (2019), ''Durgeshgorer Guptodhan'' (2019), ''Ekannaborti'' (2021), ''Belashuru'' (2022), ''Kaberi Antardhan'' (2023), ''Ardhangini'' (2023), ''Dabaru ''(2024) and Shotyi Bole Shotyi Kichhu Nei (2025).

Plays

* Marx in Kolkata based on Howard Zinn's Marx in Soho * Hamlet * ''Taraye Taraye'' based on

Srijato Srijato Bandyopadhyay 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 2014, Filmfare Awards East for Best Lyrici ...

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

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

Mother Courage and Her Children ''Mother Courage and Her Children'' () is a play written in 1939 by the German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956), with significant contributions from Margarete Steffin. Four theatrical productions were produced in Switzerland and ...

* Antigone * ''

Macbeth ''The Tragedy of Macbeth'', often shortened to ''Macbeth'' (), is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, estimated to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the physically violent and damaging psychological effects of political ambiti ...

'' (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 showca ...

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

Television

Web series

Awards

*2003 BFJA Award in the category best actor in supporting role, for the film Aamar Bhuvan. *2023 Girish Purashkar for extraordinary contributions in Theatre by the Cultural Department of Government of West Bengal *2023 Best Actor Telly Academy Award for Godhuli Alap television series

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