Shekhar Chattopadhyay

Skuespiller, Forfatter, Instruktør

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.

Kendt for

  • Basanta Bilap
    Basanta Bilap1973
  • Bhuvan Shome
    Bhuvan Shome1969
  • The Expedition
    The Expedition1962
  • Interview
    Interview1971
  • The Zoo
    The Zoo1967
  • Chorus
    Chorus2018
  • Marjina Abdulla
    Marjina Abdulla1972
  • Kondura (The Sage from the Sea)
    Kondura (The Sage from the Sea)1978
  • Vasundhara
    Vasundhara1986
  • Dakather Hatey Bulu
    Dakather Hatey Bulu
  • Abichar
    Abichar1981
  • Kal Tumi Aleya
    Kal Tumi Aleya1966

Filmografi

1988
Hirer Shikal · as Cast
1983
1982
Gandhi · as Suhrawardy
1981
Abichar · as Cast
1978
Kondura (The Sage from the Sea) · as Bhairavamoorthy
1977
1977
Rajani · as Cast
1975
1974
The Beehive · as Cast
1972
Marjina Abdulla · as Qasim
1971
Kuheli · as Station Master
1970
1970
1969
1967
1966
Kal Tumi Aleya · as Lawyer
1963
1962
The Expedition · as Rameshwar
1955