Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India [now India]
Credits
30 titles
Shekhar Chattopadhyay
Biography
Shekhar Chatterjee (1924–1990) was an Indian actor and film director. Chatterjee was born in Kolkata in 1924. He began his career in the Bengali theatre in the 1950s. He was associated with several leftist theatre groups, including the Communist Party's Indian People's Theatre Association, Utpal Dutt's Little Theatre Group, and Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop, as well as his own group, Theatre Unit, which he formed in 1958. As a stage actor, he was well known for his Shakespearean roles and for playing Shardul Singh in Dutt's 1965 play Kallol. His directorial work focused on works by German-language playwrights Bertold Brecht, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Peter Handke, and Franz Xaver Kroetz. Chatterjee's Brecht productions were rarely adapted to a local setting, and while critics unanimously praised this approach as "authentic", his colleague Dutt attacked it for failing to communicate Brecht's political symbolism to an Indian audience.
Known For
Filmography
Vasundhara
Tagari
Maa
Gandhi
Suhrawardy
The Sage from the Sea
Bhairavamoorthy
Pratima
The Royal Hunt
Barbadhu
Nishimrigaya
Sangsar Simantey
Sangini
Rodon Bhara Basanta
Raktatilak
Chorus
Marjina Abdulla
Qasim
Basanta Bilap
Writer
Sansar
Interview
Kuheli
Station Master
An Unfinished Story
Aleyar Alo
The Wish Fulfilment
Subol Chandra Sarkar
Bhuvan Shome
Garh Nasimpur
The Zoo
The Survivor
Lawyer
Joradighir Chowdhury Paribar
Portrait of a Princess
The Expedition
Rameshwar
The Final Truth