Dhritiman Chatterjee

Dhritiman Chatterjee

Dhritiman Chatterjee (Bengali: ধৃতিমান চট্টোপাধ্যায়) is an Indian actor. He began his acting career in 1970 as the protagonist of Satyajit Ray's Pratidwandi (The Adversary). Most of his acting work has been in India's "parallel", or independent, cinema with filmmakers such as Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen and Aparna Sen, among others. He has also worked in English films with well-known filmmakers such as Deepa Mehta and Jane Campion. He has received several acting awards in India and has been on the Jury of the Indian National film Awards. Chatterjee pursues a parallel career in advertising, social communications and documentary filmmaking. In 2019, he lent his voice for narration in If Not for You[1], a documentary about Kolkata's long lasting love affair with legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. Never a part of mainstream "Bollywood", he's made an astonishingly small number of films. In recent years he's taken roles with filmmakers as diverse as Jane Campion and hugely successful Mumbai directors Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Mani Ratnam. Dhritiman is his screen name. He is otherwise known as Sundar Chatterjee and is quite active on the English stage in Chennai. Born on 30 May 1945, he was educated at Kolkata's St Xavier's Collegiate School and Presidency College, and the Delhi School of Economics. About his acting qualities, Satyajit Ray once remarked, "I do not know what definition of a star these filmmakers have been using, but mine goes something like this. A star is a person on the screen who continues to be expressive and interesting even after he or she has stopped doing anything. This definition does not exclude the rare and lucky breed that gets lakhs of rupees per film; and it includes everyone who keeps his calm before the camera, projects a personality and evokes empathy. This is a rare breed too but one has met it in our films. Dhritiman Chatterjee of Pratidwandi is such a star." - (Our Films Their Films) Dhritiman is currently the anchor of Pradhanmantri in Bengali on ABP Ananda from 14 December 2013.

Known For: Acting

Born: Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India [now India], 1945-05-30

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1970	The Adversary	Siddhartha Chaudhuri	72
2	1972	Picnic	Dipak Dey	0
3	1973	The Guerrilla Fighter		66
4	1974	Jadu Bansha		0
5	1981	In Search of Famine	Movie Director	69
6	1981	36 Chowringhee Lane	Samaresh Moitra	71
7	1987	Sarisreep - The Reptile		0
8	1990	An Enemy of the People	Nishith Gupta	72
9	1991	The Stranger	Prithwish Sen Gupta	76
10	1993	Sunya Theke Suru	Professor Bhishmadev Sharma	0
11	1996	Kahini		0
12	1996	Himghar		0
13	1999	Holy Smoke	Chidaatma Baba	57
14	2005	Black	Paul McNally	77
15	2006	15 Park Avenue	Dr. Kunal Barua	62
16	2007	Framed	Inspector	0
17	2007	Guru	Contractor Sahaab	68
18	2008	Four Chapters	Uncle	0
19	2009	Yavarum Nalam	Mr.Thyagarajan / Mr.Kamdhar	62
20	2009	033		0
21	2009	Hit List		0
22	2010	Ekti Tarar Khonje		0
23	2010	Gorosthane Sabdhan		61
24	2011	Noukadubi	Annodababu, Hemnalini's Father	70
25	2012	Mayabazaar		0
26	2012	Kahaani	Bhaskaran K.	72
27	2012	Agent Vinod	Sir Jagadishwar Metla	55
28	2012	Midnight's Children	Mian Abdullah	55
29	2013	Shunyo Awnko	Dr. Probal Roy	0
30	2013	Neelakasham Pachakadal Chuvanna Bhoomi	Bimalda	70
31	2014	Teenkahon	Dr. Banerjee	52
32	2014	Ek Phaali Rodh	Dr. Roy	100
33	2015	Shajarur Kanta	Byomkesh Bakshi	60
34	2015	Naxal	Shiddhartha Chowdhury	100
35	2015	Wedding Pullav	Sid Kapoor	30
36	2016	Chauranga	Pandey	63
37	2016	The Man Who Knew Infinity	Narayana Iyer	71
38	2016	Let Her Cry		65
39	2016	Oppam	Anupam Ram	72
40	2016	Pink	Judge Satyajeet Dutt	74
41	2016	Majnu	Aditya's Grandfather	62
42	2016	The Last Mural	Bijan Bose	80
43	2016	Double Feluda	Nihar Ranjan Dutta	0
44	2017	The Bongs Again	Jishu's uncle	0
45	2017	Poorna	Alexander	63
46	2017	Chilekotha		0
47	2017	Paisa Vasool	jailor	49
48	2018	Jai Simha		40
49	2018	Shobdo Kolpo Droom	Dr. Amlan	0
50	2019	If Not For You	Narrator	0
51	2019	Stars for Baba	Baba	0
52	2019	Mission Mangal		67
53	2019	Professor Shanku O El Dorado	Professor Shanku	60
54	2020	Talking Head	(Self)	0
55	2021	Chehre	Justice Jagdish Acharya	66
56	2025	The Puppet’s Tale	Jadav Pundit	0
57		Dear Ma		0
58	2018	Bhavesh Joshi Superhero	Nandu Don	74
59	2019	Kavacha		70
60	2024	Padatik	file footage	90
61	2025	The Keysmith	Sudhanshu	0

No.

Year

Title

Role

Vote Average

1970