Jogesh Datta

Jogesh Dutta, the Charlie Chaplin Charles Chaplin popularly known as Charlie Chaplin >> Read More... of Kolkata, was born in 1935. He was born in Faridpur district of Bangladesh. Jogesh is an Indian mime actor who is also known as the poet of silence. He spent eleven years in his native village, Haatshiruaali. On India's Independence Day Click to look into! >> Read More... , he found himself on a platform at Calcutta's Sealdah railway station along with his parents and siblings. Like lakhs of other families, they also faced a dark future. Soon, he was an orphan who started living with his distant relatives.

For a living, he started doing numerous works like washing dishes at a tea stall and also worked at a construction site. He worked as a grocer's assistant. Jogesh and his elder brother, Suresh Dutta, had little schooling. He got inspired by the dance dramas of Uday Shankar Uday Shankar is one the most well-known Indian fil >> Read More... and Rabindranath Tagore, and then he started as a stage actor with Sundaram, a Calcutta group. He used to imitate young couples to entertain his friends. In 1956, he created his first actual mime act, which was about a lady dressing up in front of a mirror. He performed his first stage mime performance at Bally near Kolkata.

The audience was impressed by his mime performance, and then he started getting noticed by people. He got invites for performances at college, office, and functions. He performed on a stage with a theatre group. In 1958, he realized that he really wanted to become a mime actor. As he was learning by himself, he was unaware of the traditions of money or the ancient Natyashastra. The National Youth Festival, which was held in 1960 in Calcutta, was a turning point in his life. This provided him with a lot of invitations from all over the country and the world.

He traveled the globe several times and brought acclamation from several countries to India,  like Germany, France, Bulgaria, Holland, Afghanistan, The Middle East, and many more. Numerous film units made a documentary on him in India along with Germany, Britain, and France. His popular acts in the comic category are Bus Passenger, A Naughty Boy, Walking, Hair Cutting Salon, and A Society Lady. His concern for humanistic issues can be seen in The Vietnamese Act.

Jogesh is the founder of the Jogesh Mime Akademi. With the help of the Bengali Government, it got affiliated with Sangeet Natak Akademi and Rabindra Bharati University. This academy provides a four-year course to students from India, Bangladesh, Nepal,  and Switzerland. In 2009, he gave his final appearance on stage at Rabindra Sadan. He got The Shiromani Purashkar Award in 1985 and The Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1983.