Utpalendu Chakrabarty

Utpalendu Chakrabarty was an Indian filmmaker based in Kolkata.

Life and career

Chakrabarty was born in Pabna District in 1948. Utpalendu graduated from Scottish Church College, of the University of Calcutta.
Chakrabarty was involved in left-wing politics in his student life and spent time in Purulia among the tribal. Although he started out as a teacher, his passion was cinema. He made several documentaries and films. He was once married to Indrani Chakraborty and later divorced. He remarried to director and activist Satarupa Sanyal but divorced in 2000. His daughters Chitrangada Satarupa and Ritabhari Chakraborty revealed that they had no connection to Utpalendu, their biological father.
He has won the Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director at the 28th National Film Awards in 1980 for Maina Tadanta, the National Film Award for Best Feature Film and Direction at the 30th National Film Awards in 1982 for Chokh, the Berlin International Film Festival OCIC Award in 1983 for Chokh and the National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film at the 32nd National Film Awards in 1984 for Music of Satyajit Ray.
Chakrabarty died in Kolkata on 20 August 2024, at the age of 76.

Prasab 1994Chandaneer 1989Phaansi 1988Debshishu 1985Chokh 1983Maina Tadanta 1980

Dwibachan 1989Sonar Chheye Dami 1989Rang 1989Bikalpa 1988Aparichita 1986Aparichita 2002Kalo Patharer Itikatha Chua ChandanMay Day 2005

The Music of Satyajit Ray 1984Debrata Biswas 1983Mukti Chai 1977

The Music of Satyajit Ray 1984Chokh 1983

Chokh 1983

Chhaturtha Panipather Juddha 1995