Bengali Awards Filmfare Awards Bangla 2021 - Cast & Crew

Oindrilla was born on March 31, 1995 (26 years old as of 2021) in Behara, Kolkata. Oindrila belongs to the Hindu family. Her mother is Kasturi Sen and her father is Late Santanu Sen, who loved Sangeet with all her heart. Oindrila belongs to the Hindu family in Bengal.

Ruma Sengupta is an Indian actress, known for her performance as Daiji in the Balaji Telefilms’ thriller drama, Kaahin Kissii Roz, which was aired on STAR Plus in 2004. She also donned few films including Rajat Kapoor’s Mixed Doubles in 2006 and Rahul Aggarwal’s Hindi comedy film, Na Ghar Ke Na Ghaat Ke in 2010. She also played the role of Beeji, the grandmother of Pooja Kumar’s character in the American TV miniseries, Bollywood Hero in 2009.

Lagnajita Chakraborty is a Bengali playback singer famous for the hit song from Chotushkone, Basanto Eshe Gache. Her song Preme Pora Baron has crossed millions of views and made her an internet sensation. She has studied at Patha Bhavan, Kolkata, Nava Nalanda High School, and later in St. Xavier’s School, Kolkata. She has been working since 2014 and is still actively working in the industry. She has also played a significant role in a Bengali movie, Jodi Bolo Hyan, along with Sreenanda Shankar, Mir, Anirban Bhattacharya, Sayan, and Poulomi Basu.

Aparajita Auddy is a Supporting Actress, who is well-known for her performances in both Small screen and Silver screen in Bengali Cinema. Her birthplace is Kolkata. Her date of birth is 22 February 1978. She is a trained Kathak dancer. She started her carrier in 1997. She debuted in a Small screen by hosting a show, Take Na Sona. Her famous serial includes Jol Nupur, Sanyashi Raja, Kanakanjali, Punyi Pukur, etc. In Jol Nupur, she won the Tele Samman Jury Award for the Best Actor in the leading role. She is currently hosting a cookery show Rannaghar, which is one of the longest-running Bengali Television series.

Arpita Chatterjee is a beautiful and renowned actress, born in October 1979. She Mainly performed in the Bengali and Odia film industries in India, and married the famous Bengali actor, Prosenjit Chatterjee.

Jaya Ahsan is a Bangladeshi actress and producer. She started her career as a model and later as a television actress and works mainly in Bangladeshi and Indian Bengal films. She won the Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Actress four times for her performances in the films Guerrilla (2011), Chorabali (2012), Zero Degree (2015), Debi (2018), and Alatchakra (2021). At the Madrid International Film Festival 2020, she won the Best Female Leading Actress Award in the Foreign Film category for her role in Robibar (2019).

Supriyo Sen is an Indian film director. He lives in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Honestly, he worked as a journalist; then he became an independent filmmaker. He directed the short documentary Wagah has been screened at over 200 film festivals and was voted the third most well-liked short film within the world in 2009 by the German short film magazine. Also, he won the Berlin Today Award at the Berlin Film Festival. His two-hour documentary on the Partition of India Way Back Home is the first Indian documentary to be released commercially. 

Kinjal Nanda is a Bengali actor. He is famous for his roles in Chong Chong and Hiralal. Hiralal is a biopic of Hiralal Sen that shines an inspiring journey of a filmmaker. From his school days, he was fond of watching films. He started taking part in his school plays, later he joined the recitation classes. After that, he also joined the Kathakriti theatre group and started practising theatre perennial.

Baba Yadav is an Indian film director and choreographer. Currently, he is choreographer-turned-director. His native name is Rajesh Kumar Yadav. Yadav choreographed a plethora of movie songs in his long and illustrious career. Some of the films include the Sanjay Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit starrer, Mohabbat, Fiza, Dhaai Akshar Prem Ke, and Aamir Khan’s iconic movie Lagaan. Sanjay Leela Bansali’s superhit Bollywood drama Devdas, starring Shah Rukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit, and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, showcased choreographic expertise of Yadav. Since the year 2007, Baba diverted his interest in Bengali film industry as he choreographed The Bengali movie ‘I Love You,’ starring Dev and Payel Sarkar.

Bickram Ghosh is an internationally renowned tabla player, with over 100 albums to his credit. A worldwide-recognised name in the field of Indo-fusion music, Ghosh has worked with artists like Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, Pandit Ravi Shankar and even George Harrison (a Beatles band member), right before his death. He is also a composer and an actor, composing music for over 21 films, and has acted in two Bengali films. Born on 20th October, 1966 to a musical family: his father being the tabla maestro Pandit Shankar Ghosh and his mother, classical vocalist, Sanjukta Ghosh, Bickram's training in tabla from his father began at a very early age.

Supratim Bhol is a famous cinematographer. He was born on 10 December 1979. He St. Completed his studies at Xavier's Collegiate School, Kolkata. He obtained a Senior Diploma in Theoretical Arts from Sarba Bharatiya Sangeet O Sanskriti Parishad, Kolkata in 1995 and a Visharad degree in 1996. He had an earlier interest in photography, hence he completed his studies in photography from Fergusson College, Pune. Apart from this, he also received photography lessons from photographer Pranab Basu. After this, he joined the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII). He started his career by traveling across 23 states of India and shot many short films, corporate films, music videos, advertisements, and documentaries. He started his career with Sahaj Pather Gappo (2016). He was nominated for this film by Filmfare Awards East in 2017. He has been a member of ISC (Indian Society of Cinematographers).

Sujay Datta Ray is a Film Editor who works predominantly in the Bengali Film Industry. He attended the Film and Tv Institute of India. He made his debut with the 2008 movie, Lovesongs: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. He has worked with eminent directors like Atanu Ghosh, Indradip Dasgupta, Suman Ghosh, and Arindam Sil. He has worked in over 50 films. Some of his movies include Ek Phali Rodh, Eagoler Chokh, Durgagi Sohay, Love story and Robibaar, Dostojee, Ebar Shabor, Kedara, The Last Page, Dhananjay, Shibpur, Bismillah, Tonic, 72 Hours, Googly, Baranda, Mon Sudhu Toke Chai, Har Har Byomkesh, Sesh Anka, Cross Connection 1 and 2, Kadambari, Nobel Chor, etc.

Utsav Mukherjee is an independent filmmaker. He has done post-graduation from Jadavpur University in Film Studies. Mukherjee used to make archival films in the School of Cultural Texts and Records, under Jadavpur University. He was primarily in documentaries, ads, and corporate films and wrote scripts for feature films. He mainly works for the Bengali film industry. Mukherjee made his directorial debut in ‘Half Serious’ in 2013 and moved to ‘Bheetu’ in 2013. He did a project in 2018, ‘Kuasha Jakhon’, where he served as a scriptwriter. Other than being a filmmaker, he is also a director, dialogue writer and, screenplay writer. One of his releases in 2019 includes ‘Bhobishyoter Bhoot,’ directed by Anik Dutta.  

Arjunn Dutta is an Indian Filmmaker and Screenwriter. He works in the Bengali film industry. He was born in 1986 in Kolkata, West Bengal.

Adeep Singh Manki is an Indian sound composer, who has spent most of his life in Kolkata, West Bengal. He received his education from La Martiniere For Boys in Kolkata. He was also a student at Punjab Engineering College and the Sae Byron Bay in Australia. Most of his work can be seen in the Bengali Film industry. He has a long list of movies and TV series which he has worked on. He has worked in the sound department, and music department as a part of the additional crew in movies and series including Love Aaj Kal 2, Malai, Kantho, Byomkesh Gotro, Vinci Da, Khoj, Son of Kali, Geodesy, Farewell Goddess, Ghya Chang Fou and Bhagwan Bharose.

Srijit Mukherji is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and actor who works in Bengali cinema. He has acted in many critically acclaimed films and even directed many films that fetched him commercial success and even won appreciation in the film festivals. He was born on 23 September 1977. The actor was inclined to act and direct as his parents were theater actors. Even during his higher education days, the actor took a keen interest in directing. He was playwright and director of plays like ‘Checkmate’ where he had the privilege of working with Aparna Sen and Anjan Dutta. 

Dhrubo Banerjee is an Indian Director. He also works as a writer. He is currently located in Pune, Maharashtra. Dhrubo has been in the cinema field for over one and a half decades. He currently works at the firm GlamCam Production, which was founded by himself. Banerjee studied at Nava Nalanda in Kolkata, West Bengal. He pursued his bachelor’s degree at Calcutta University in Kolkata. Dhrubo Banerjee started working at Reliance Administration (ADAG Group) in 2008 as their Creative Director. There, he worked on projects such as Shaktimaan, Little Krishna, and Krishna Aur Kans. He later joined GlamCam Productions in 2015 as a producer, director and writer for AD films and corporate films. Some of the AD films he has worked on are Lunkad Realty AD film, Radio Mirchi AD film, and Ajmera ARIA promotions film. Some of his corporate films include Sandvik Mining corporate film, Reliance Power Corporate Film, SKF Corporate Film, Bayer Crop Sciences and JoyGlobal Corporate Film.

Shibabrata Biswas is an Indian musician. He is a lyricist and a music composer. He has worked in the music department in the Bengali film industry. He went to the Scottish Church College in Calcutta (now Kolkata) for his education. He was married to Soumali Biswas in May 2011. He is a keyboardist. He used to play the keyboard at the Orient Express Band. He later left the job and joined Chandrabindu, a Bengali band based in Kolkata. He is known for his movies Blindspot (2017) and Open Tee Bioscope (2015). He worked in the music department for these movies. He has worked in the film Prem Tame (2021). He has written and composed the song Taakey Olpo Kacche Dakchhi in the movie. He was nominated for the award for the Best Music Director with Prasen for the song at the West Bengal Film Journalist Associates Awards 2021.

Shantanu Moitra is a music composer in Bollywood. He rose to popularity with films like ‘Parineeta’(2005) for which he received Filmfare R.D. Burman Award. After the success of ‘Parineeta’, his association with filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra was path-breaking one. He followed it up with Lage Raho Munnabhai’, ‘3 Idiots’ and ‘Eklavya: The Royal Guard' and 'PK'. He has also composed music for Shoojit Sircar’s two films ‘Shoebite’ and ‘Madras Café’. While ‘Shoebite’ remains an unreleased film still, ‘Madras Café’ got released. 

Samiul Alam is an Indian Child Actor. He is best known for Bengali movies. Samiul Alam’s latest movies include Sahaj Pather Gappo starring Nur Islam and Sneha Biwas. His 2019 movie release includes Parineeta, directed by Raj Chakraborty. He is also a part of Tangra Blues which was released in 2021, Adventure of Jojo in 2018, Dracula Sir in 2020 and Parineeta in 2019. He received the National Award in 2016 for the Best Child Artist for his performance in the film Sahaj Pather Golpo. He has done many Bengali films.

Anirban Bhattacharya is an Indian-actor. He is a stage player and an actor. He is born on 7th October 1986. He is born and brought up in Midnapore, West Bengal. He has completed his schooling from Nirmal Hriday Ashram Catholic Church High School. After completing his schooling, he moved to Kolkata and there got the admission in Rabindra Bharti University for studying Theatre as the subject. After completing his graduation, he got admission for pursuing his masters in theater, and there he received the Young Artist Scholarship from the Cultural Ministry of Government of India. After a lot of practice in the year 2010, he started his theatre group named 'Sangharam Hatibagan'. Under the title of his theatre, he directed four plays named Guru, Chowmatha, Udorniti, and Pontu Laha 2.0. At the time of his graduation and post-graduation, he has participated in various plays.

Arjun Chakraborty is an Indian film actor and director. He was born in a remote village in Rajasthan. His father, who is a doctor, is keen on doing social service and shifted to Rajasthan to serve the people and the country. When he is about to enter college, he wanted to study science, and thus he attended Maharana Bhopal College of Udaipur. During college, the school had a debate about films, and one of his friends challenged him to make a film by himself to prove his arguments. That is the time he thought of venturing into films. Arjun never waited for the results of his B. Sc and instantly went to Mumbai.

Paran Bandopadhyay is a Bengali actor based out of Kolkata. He was born in Jessore (now in Bangladesh). He was too young when he lost his mother. As a child, Bandhopadhyay was fostered by his paternal aunt. He completed his education and pursued a degree in Commerce at the College in the University of Calcutta. Since his childhood days, Bandopadhyay participated in school plays. Later, he also acted in a few Indian People’s Theatre Association dramas, such as Ashanto Chille, Haraner Nathjamai, and Spartakas. Later, in 1999, he founded a theatre group named Shrutee Rangam, known for Paran Bandopadhyay’s acting and direction.

Anik Dutta is a famous Bengali movie director. He entertained people around the globe with his incredible works. He is the grandson of a well-known personality. The founder of the United Bank of India, Narendra Chandra Dutta, is his grandfather. However, Anik never tried to achieve his goals using his grandfather's name. His motive was to make his career in his way. In 2012, Anik Dutta presented himself as a director. Since then, he has never looked back.

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