Samrat Chakrabarti is a British-American film actor and musician of Indian descent.

Career

Acting

Having acted all through school, Chakrabarti's feature film debut came in 2004 in

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's '' She Hate Me''. Early in his career, he starred opposite Molly Shannon in ''The Wedding Weekend'' and then in Manish Acharya's '' Loins of Punjab Presents''. He also had a role in the Australian film, '' The Waiting City''. His film, '' The War Within'', was nominated for an Indie Spirit Award while ''Bombay Summer'', starring Tannishtha Chatterjee won Best Film at the 2009 MIAAC Film Festival. Chakrabarti starred opposite Rebecca Hazelwood in '' Kissing Cousins'' and made an appearance in the Yash Raj-produced

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film, '' New York''. Chakrabarti played the character Rishi, a menacing gangster in Ajay Naidu's ''Ashes''. He will be seen soon in ''Murder in the Dark'', produced by ''

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''s Chris Wyatt. Chakrabarti has also appeared in television productions. He has appeared on ''

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) as Irrfan Khan's son, ''

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, '' Bored to Death'' (HBO), '' Blue Bloods'' ( CBS) opposite Tom Selleck, '' Law & Order: Criminal Intent'' (NBC) opposite Chris Noth, ''

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'' (NBC), '' Love Monkey'' ( CBS), ''

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, and ''

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''. Chakrabarti was a recurring character on FX's ''

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Music

Samrat Chakrabarti is also an established international musician. In 1994, he founded

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's award-winning all male

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group, VoiceMale, for which he continues to contribute arrangements and original compositions, including "Please Don't Go," which appears on the album ''Suit Up'' and arrangements for the national a cappella compilation ''Voices Only 2009''. He won a U.S. CARA for Best Original Pop/Rock Song for his composition "What's It all About". He is a former member of the a cappella group Five O' Clock Shadow. He was also a part of the group '' The Hyannis Sound''. In 1998, Chakrabarti produced an untitled album for his musical group, JYDE, and composed the song "Startving". Chakrabarti has also composed the theme song "Dhol Beat" for ''Loins of Punjab'', and Sundaram Tagore's ''Natvar Bhavsar: Poetics of Color''.

Filmography

Television roles

Videogames

External links

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Samrat Chakrabarti official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Chakrabarti, Samrat 1975 births 21st-century American male actors American male actors of Indian descent American male film actors American male television actors American people of Bengali descent Brandeis University alumni English emigrants to the United States Harvard University alumni Living people