Srijit Mukherji (born 23 September 1977) is an Indian film director and screenwriter who predominantly works in Bengali cinema. His regular collaboration with veteran actor

Prosenjit Chatterjee Prosenjit Chatterjee (born 30 September 1962) is an Indian actor and producer. He is widely regarded as one of the leading actors of modern Bengali cinema. He predominantly works in Cinema of West Bengal, Bengali cinema. He is the son of Bollyw ...

brought him into the limelight. His first feature film ''

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'' (2010), was a critical and commercial success, where he had written the script with Chatterjee in mind. His fifth film, ''

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,'' won four national awards at India's

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(2014). He won the

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and

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for his sixth film, ''

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,'' at India's 62nd National Film Awards. His eighth film, '' Rajkahini'' had been remade into a Hindi film titled, '' Begum Jaan'', starring

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in 2017. His 2018 release Ek Je Chhilo Raja won the 'Best Bengali Film' Award at India's

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. His 2019 film Gumnaami won him the Best Bengali Film and Best Adapted Screenplay Awards at the

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Early life

Mukherji was born and brought up in Bhawanipore in Kolkata. He completed his schooling till 10th standard from Dolna Day School, Kolkata and 12th from South Point School,

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, before studying BA economics at

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. He went on to complete his MA and MPhil in

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, parallelly working as a social scientist in the Urban Transport and Pollution Sector with TERI in

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. He quit his Ph.D. while in his first year, to join IRI Symphony,

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as an econometrician and business analyst. After working in Bangalore and a brief stint in

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, he quit his job to actively pursue theatre and films.

Career

Even while working as an economist and statistician, he was actively involved with the English professional theatre circuit in

and Bangalore. He has acted in ''Madness'', adapted from

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's ''

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'';

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's ''The Orchard of Banchharam'';

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's ''The Other Side of History''; Sunil Ganguly's ''Pratidwandi – The Adversary'', adapted for the stage from

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's film of the same name and ''Lucknow 76''. He wrote and directed ''Mindgame'', an Indian adaptation of

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's ''

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'', at the Alliance Francaise De Bangalore in 2006. In April 2008, he formed his own troupe, Pandora's Act, whose first production, ''Feluda Pherot!'' at Rangashankara in July 2008 was a runaway success and was the first ever non-canonical dramatisation of Satyajit Ray's sleuth

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, Ray's leading man in ''Seemabodhho'', and

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, the screen

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and film youth icon, starred in this production. In 2009, he wrote, directed and acted in the English play ''Checkmate'', a non-canonical re-interpretation of

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's sleuth. He was an assistant director, lyricist and actor in both

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's ''

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'' and

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's '' Iti Mrinalini'', in 2009. He has also written lyrics for films like '' Cross Connection'', ''

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'' and ''Josh'', TV serials like ''Coffee and More'' and '' Dadagiri'' and non-film albums of

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2010–2012

In 2010 Mukherji directed his debut feature film, the award-winning blockbuster – ''

'' (starring

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and

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) which was both critically acclaimed and commercially successful. The film won 41 awards and was an official selection at Abu Dhabi International Film Festival 2010, MIAAC Film Festival in New York 2010, Glasgow International Film Festival 2011 and

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scripted mega serial '' Gaaner Opare'', produced by Ideas Entertainment. His work in 2011 included a major role in Anindya Banerjee's ''Chaplin'' starring

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and his second film, starring

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and

Gautam Ghose Goutam Ghose (also spelled Gautam Ghosh; born 24 July 1950) is an Indian film director, actor, music director and cinematographer who works primarily in Cinema of West Bengal, Bengali cinema. He is the only Indian to have received the "Vittorio ...

, who returned to acting after a hiatus of 29 years. was recently the official selection at the Dubai International Film Festival and the closing film at the London Indian Film Festival, and had a 105-day run at the box office making it the biggest blockbuster of the year. has won 41 awards. His third feature film was ''

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'', a romantic satire set at the backdrop of a school which teaches aspirants how to successfully commit suicide. It featured Parambrata Chatterjee and

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and won 21 awards.

2013–2016

Mukherji's fourth film, '' Mishawr Rawhoshyo'', based on

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with Prasenjit Chattopadhyay playing the lead character and

playing the role of Hani Alkadi, has been declared as one of the biggest blockbusters ever and the highest earning urban mainstream film. He has acted in films like '' Dutta Vs Dutta'', '' Bapi Bari Jaa'' and the national award-winning '' Shobdo''. His fifth film ''

'', featuring

and

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, is generally considered to be the best in his career and most critically acclaimed. It is the musical bridge between two centuries of Bengali culture and a biopic cum a musical cum a reincarnation drama. At the 61st National Awards 2014, the highest film honour in India, it won 4 national awards for Music Direction, Playback Singing, Costume and Make up. This was the highest tally for a film in India this year, and the second highest ever for a Bengali film. It also swept the Mirchi Music Awards in 2015 winning 7 awards. The following year at the 62nd National Awards 2015, Chotushkone won him the Best Director and Best Original Screenplay awards, along with winning the Best Cinematography. He also received the Young Achiever Award from Rotary International, the prestigious Shera Bangali Award from ABP Anando and the Shoilojanando Mukhopadhyay Memorial Award in 2012 for his contribution in the field of film direction. In 2013 he received the Uttam Kumar Memorial Award from the Government of West Bengal becoming the youngest director to achieve this. He has also received the oldest film award in India, the BFJA award, for remarkable contribution to Bengali Cinema in the last few years.

2017–2020

Mukherji has made his directorial debut in

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with the film '' Begum Jaan'' which is a remake of his earlier

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film Rajkahini.

plays the lead role of a brothel's madam during the partition of India in 1947. He had two releases in 2018,

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and Ek Je Chhilo Raja. Both featured

and were box office superhits. The former went to 10 film festivals around the world and won 6 awards while the latter won 23 awards and went to 7 film festivals around the world including Palm Springs International Film Festival. In 2018, it was reported that Mukherji will be directing a Junglee Pictures produced yet to be titled web-series in Hindi, based on the novel of noted novelist and blogger Arnab Ray, The Mahabharata Murders. This will be his first foray into web-series direction. In 2019, he has three releases Shahjahan Regency, Vinci Da and Gumnaami, the last two being both critical and commercial successes along with being a festival favourite. Gumnaami won the Best Bengali Feature Film and Best Adapted Screenplay Awards at the 67th National Film Awards. He has also completed another web-series, ''Feluda Pherot'', which is based on two

stories written by Satyajit Ray, ''Chhinomostar Obhishaap'' and ''Darjeeling Jomjomat''.

2021–present

After no films in 2020 due to

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, in 2021 he had 4 releases, out of which 2 were Hindi films. He directed '' Kakababur Protyaborton'', which was based on the third film of the

franchise, it had Prosenjit Chatterjee as Kakababu, Aryann Bhowmik, Anirban Chakrabarti in the lead roles. His next release was '' X=Prem''. A

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romance drama film with debutant actors, the film earned critical praise and received several awards and nominations at the 6th Filmfare Awards Bangla and 6th WBFJA Awards. His next projects that year were two Bollywood films: '' Sherdil: The Pilibhit Saga'' and ''

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''. The latter was the biography of one of the most influential Indian female cricketer

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. In 2023, he released ''

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'', a

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as the 4th installment Srijit Mukherji's Cop Universe. It served as the prequel crossover of his previous films ''

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'' and '' Vinci Da''. It became a huge box office success emerged as one of the highest grossing Bengali films of 2023. The film received multiple nomination and awards at the Filmfare Awards Bangla and WBFJA Awards. His first release in 2024 was the

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romantic

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'' Oti Uttam''. For the first time ever in Indian Cinema, veteran actor

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appeared in the movie through

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by using his scenes from his 56 existing old movies. His next release this year was a

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on the life of

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. Titled '' Padatik'', it chronicles his active time and contributions to Bengali cinema. His next thriller film titled '' Tekka'' starring Dev and

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released on the occasion Durga Puja 2024 and earned an 'organic blockbuster' tag. His upcoming venture is ''Feludar Goyendagiri (Season 2)'' which is scheduled to release on the occasion of Christmas 2024, digitally. Also, post-production of his next film ''Shotyi Boley Shotyi Kichhu Nei'' is currently undergoing and is scheduled for a January 2025 release.

Filmography

As director

Web series

As lyricist and actor

Also as an Actor(Cameo Roles) in all the films he directed

Awards

International Awards * Best Director for '' Ek Je Chhilo Raja'' at 20th Rainbow Film Festival, London (2018) * Best Story for '' Vinci Da'' at 21st Rainbow Film Festival, London (2019) * Best Film for '' Ek Je Chhilo Raja'' at 17th Dhaka International Film Festival (2019) * Best Screenplay for ''Padatik'' at the 24th New York Indian Film Festival (2024) * Best Director for ''

'' at International Bangla Film Academy Awards (2011) * Best Screenplay for ''

'' at International Bangla Film Academy Awards (2011) * Best Director for '' Shotyi Bole Shotyi Kichhu Nei'' at the 26th Rainbow Film Festival, London (2025) National Awards (Govt. of India) * Best Director for ''

'' at the 62nd National Awards (2014) * Best Original Screenplay for ''

'' at the 62nd National Awards (2014) * Best Adapted Screenplay for '' Gumnaami'' at the 67th National Awards (2019) * Best Director (Bengali) for '' Ek Je Chhilo Raja'' at the 66th National Awards (2018) * Best Director (Bengali) for '' Gumnaami'' at the 67th National Awards (2019) Filmfare Awards * Best Story for '' Vinci Da'' (2019) * Best Film for '' Vinci Da'' (2019) * Best Screenplay for ''Dwitiyo Purush'' (2020) * Best Screenplay for ''Padatik'' (2024) WBFJA Awards (Oldest Film Awards in India) * Best Director for '' Ek Je Chhilo Raja'' (2018) * Best Lyricist for ''

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'' (2018) * Best Screenplay for ''Dwitiyo Purush'' (2020) * Best Director for ''Padatik'' (2024) State Awards (Govt. Of West Bengal) * Best Film for ''Autograph'' at the 10th Telecine Awards (2010) * Best Director for ''Autograph'' at the 10th Telecine Awards (2010) * Best Director for ''

'' at the 11th Telecine Awards (2011) * Best Director for ''

'' at the 14th Telecine Awards (2014) * Best Film for '' Vinci Da'' at the 18th Telecine Awards (2019) * Best Director (Critics) for '' Vinci Da'' at the 18th Telecine Awards (2019) * Best Film for '' Gumnaami'' at the 19th Telecine Awards (2019) * Best Director (Critics) for '' Gumnaami'' at the 19th Telecine Awards (2019)

Personal life

Mukherji was in a relationship with actress

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; they broke up after filming ''Jaatishwar'' in 2014. Later he dated

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around 2017 for a brief period. Media reports speculated a romantic affair between him and actress

during the filming of ''Bishorjan'' (2017). Mukherji did not address the rumours directly, but described their relationship being "much more than love". On 6 December 2019, Mukherji married actress

Rafiath Rashid Mithila Rafiath Rashid Mithila (born 25 May 1984) is a Bangladeshi actress, singer and development worker known professionally by the mononym Mithila. Besides her film work in both Bangladesh and Kolkata, India, she is the head of the Early Childhood De ...

References

External links

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