Parambrata Chattopadhyay (born 27 June 1980) is an Indian actor and director. Parambrata started his career with Bengali television and films. He has acted as the fictional character Topshe from Feluda under
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Personal life
Parambrata was born in
Kolkata
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,
West Bengal
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, India. His father was a journalist and mother a renowned film critic. He is the son of Satinath Chatterjee and Sunetra Ghatak, maternal grandson of Ashish Chandra Ghatak and Indira
Ghatak, and grandnephew of filmmaker
Ritwik Ghatak
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. Bengali author and activist
Mahasweta Devi
Mahasweta Devi (14 January 1926 – 28 July 2016) ''
is Parambrata's aunt.
He has often been targeted by fundamentalists for his secularist views. He was previously in a relationship with actress
Swastika Mukherjee
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, and also with Ike Schouten, a doctor from The
Netherlands
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, for nearly a decade. Parambrata studied at Patha Bhavan School, Kolkata. He holds a bachelor's degree in English literature from
Jadavpur University
Jadavpur University ( abbr. JU) is a public state funded research university with its main campus located at Jadavpur, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It was established on 25 July in 1906 as ''Bengal Technical Institute'' and was converted into ...
. He also obtained a master's degree in Film and Television from the
University of Bristol
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.
On 27 November 2023, he married Piya Chakraborty, a singer-social worker in a private ceremony.On 1st June,2025,they were blessed with a baby boy.
Career
Chatterjee has acted in many television series, tele-films, short films and films. His directorial debut feature film is '' Jiyo Kaka'' (2011) starring Rituparna Sengupta and Rudranil Ghosh. His second directorial venture was '' Hawa Bodol'' (2013). Seven months after the success of '' Kahaani'', he was signed by Jeffrey D. Brown, who won an
Academy Award
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for his debut short film in 1986, for his film ''Sold''.
On 30 May 2011, he became a producer along with colleague, Rudranil Ghosh, by launching their own production house, Workshop Productions Pvt. Ltd, in association with Dipak Raha of Durgandh Group.
Along with his business partner Aritra Sen, he currently runs their production house Roadshow Films.
For the movie '' Abhijaan'' Poulami Bose accused director Parambrata of blatant misrepresentations of original events, ignoring important people and aspects of his life and using her son's accident in the film. Parambrata said the depictions were endorsed by the actor himself.