Parambrata Chatterjee/Chattopadhyay

Some Lesser Known Facts About Parambrata Chatterjee

• Parambrata Chatterjee is an Indian actor, director, and producer, who is famous for working in the Bengali entertainment industry. He is well-known for working in the 2012 hit Hindi film ‘Kahaani’ starring Vidya Balan in which he played the role of Satyaki Sinha (Rana).

• Parambrata is the grandson of Ashish Chandra Ghatak and Gita Ghatak on his mother’s side. He is also the grandnephew of filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak. Furthermore, Bengali author and activist Mahasweta Devi is Parambrata’s aunt. ^[9]The Print

  

• Some of the Bengali Telefilms in which he has acted include ‘Swapna Sundari’ (2004), ‘Ekchhut’ (2005), and ‘Ankush’ (2006).

• The success of the 2012 Hindi film ‘Kahaani’ proved to be a huge turning point in his Bengali film career. Within a few months of its release, Parambrata had many Bengali film offers on the table. Since he couldn’t accept every offer, he was deemed a ‘rude’ person by many filmmakers.

• According to reports, about seven months after the success of ‘Kahaani,’ he was enlisted by Jeffrey D. Brown, an Academy Award-winning director, to work in the 2014 English film ‘Sold.’

  

• His second venture as a director was ‘Hawa Bodol’ in 2013. He has directed several Bengali films, including ‘Hawa Bodol’ (2013), ‘Shonar Pahar’ (2018), ‘Tiki-Taka’ (2020), and ‘Abhijaan’ (2022).

• Aside from being an actor and director, he also owns a production house named Workshop Productions Pvt. Ltd, in partnership with actor Rudranil Ghosh, which he founded in 2011 in collaboration with Dipak Raha of Durgandh Group.

• He is an avid animal lover.

  

• Parambrata has frequently received criticism from fundamentalists because of his secularist views. ^[10]Aaj Tak

• He is often spotted consuming alcohol in public.