Rudranil Ghosh is an Indian actor who works primarily in

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films.

Education

Rudranil Ghosh completed his early education at

Santragachi Kedarnath Institution, Howrah Santragachi Kedarnath Institution (or Santragachi K.N. Institution) is a government sponsored, Bengali language, higher secondary school in Howrah in the state of West Bengal, India. The first Bengali language medium school of Howrah district, ...

under West Bengal State Board. He graduated from the Narasinha Dutt College, which is affiliated with the

University of Calcutta The University of Calcutta, informally known as Calcutta University (), is a Public university, public State university (India), state university located in Kolkata, Calcutta (Kolkata), West Bengal, India. It has 151 affiliated undergraduate c ...

, in 1995.

Political career

Initially he was a student leader of the Left Front. He later joined in the

Trinamool Congress The All India Trinamool Congress (; AITC), simply known as Trinamool Congress, is an Indian political party that is mainly influential in the Federated state, state of West Bengal. It was founded by Mamata Banerjee on 1 January 1998 as a Lis ...

and became the chairman of the West Bengal State Council of Vocational Education and Training. Thereafter in 2021, he became a member of

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; , ) is a political party in India and one of the two major List of political parties in India, Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. BJP emerged out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's ...

and contested Bhabanipur Assembly constituency in the

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against AITC leader

Sovandeb Chatterjee Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay is an Indian politician representing Trinamool Congress and is the first elected MLA of the party (elected in 1998). He was the founder president of INTTUC, the labour wing of his party Trinamool Congress. He is one of ...

and lost by a margin of 28,719 votes.

Controversy

In January 2004, while performing the play ''Fyataru'', Ghosh was charged with rape, cheating, and promise to marry by his alleged live-in partner actress Oindrila Chakraborty. The case was filed in Regent Park police station. After 10 years, the

Alipore Alipore is a neighbourhood of Kolkata, South Kolkata in Kolkata district in the Indian States and union territories of India, state of West Bengal. It is flanked by the Tolly Nullah to the north, Bhowanipore to the east, the Diamond Harbour R ...

court acquitted Ghosh in July 2014.

Works

Films

Television & Web Series

Awards

* 2007: BFJA - Best Supporting Actor Award for both ''

Kantatar ''Kantatar'' (, Barbed Wire) is a 2005 Bengali film directed by Bappaditya Bandopadhyay, featuring Sreelekha Mitra, Sudip Mukherjee, and Rudranil Ghosh. It received NETPAC Award at Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema, 2007 fo ...

'' and ''

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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 ...

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