Samrat Chakrabarti
Samrat Chakrabarti is a British-American film actor and musician of Indian descent.
Career
Acting
Having acted all through school, Chakrabarti's feature film debut came in 2004 in Spike Lee's She Hate Me. Early in his career, he starred opposite Molly Shannon in The Wedding Weekend and then in Manish Acharya's Loins of Punjab Presents. He also had a role in the Australian film The Waiting City. His film The War Within was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award while Bombay Summer, starring Tannishtha Chatterjee, won Best Film at the 2009 MIAAC Film Festival. Chakrabarti starred opposite Rebecca Hazelwood in Kissing Cousins and made an appearance in the Yash Raj-produced Bollywood film New York. Chakrabarti played the character Rishi, a menacing gangster, in Ajay Naidu's Ashes. He appeared in Murder in the Dark, produced by Napoleon Dynamites Chris Wyatt.Chakrabarti has also appeared in television productions, including In Treatment as Irrfan Khan's son, 30 Rock, Bored to Death, Blue Bloods, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order, Love Monkey, The Sopranos, The Leftovers, and All My Children. Chakrabarti was a recurring character on FX's Damages.
Music
Samrat Chakrabarti is also an established international musician. In 1994, he founded Brandeis University's award-winning all male a cappella group, VoiceMale, for which he continues to contribute arrangements and original compositions, including "Please Don't Go," which appears on the album Suit Up and arrangements for the national a cappella compilation Voices Only 2009. He won a U.S. CARA for Best Original Pop/Rock Song for his composition "What's It all About". He is a former member of the a cappella group Five O' Clock Shadow. He was also a part of the group The Hyannis Sound. In 1998, Chakrabarti produced an untitled album for his musical group, JYDE, and composed the song "Startving".Chakrabarti has also composed the theme song "Dhol Beat" for Loins of Punjab, and Sundaram Tagore's Natvar Bhavsar: Poetics of Color.