Sabyasachi Chakrabarty is an Indian actor of theatre, films and television.[3] He is best known for portraying iconic Bengali detective characters, Feluda,[4] and Kakababu.
Personal life
His parents, Jagadish Chandra Chakrabarty and Monica Chakrabarty, used to call him "Benu."[clarification needed][5]
In 1975, he passed Higher Secondary Examination from Andrew's High School, Kolkata. He earned a degree in B.Sc. from Hansraj College, University of Delhi.[citation needed] He cleared his AMI examination from Delhi in 1978.[5] Apart from acting, his love for nature and forests is well known. He takes ardent interest in wild life photography.[citation needed]
Sabyasachi got married in 1986 to Mithu Chakrabarty, who is also a popular face in the Bengali entertainment industry. He has two sons, Gaurav and Arjun, both of whom are talented actors.[5] They are working in both film and television.
Career
Sabyasachi's first mainstream work was a lead role in the 1987 TV series Tero Parbon for Kolkata Doordarshan channel. Tero Parbon was critically acclaimed with a memorable soundtrack in which his role as the character Gora was well-received and made him fairly popular in his early days of acting.
In 1996 he received the Best Actor award for his performance in Kakababu Here Gelen and, again, in 2005 he was awarded Best Actor for his role in Mahulbanir Sereng, by Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards (BFJA). Sabyasachi Chakrabarty was the recipient of the Best Actor award in a Supporting Role by the BFJA in 1995, 2000 and 2003.[citation needed]
He has received the 2nd International Indo-Bangladesh Kala Music Award (IIBKMA).[citation needed]
Sabyasachi portrayed Feluda on both small and big screens after legendary Soumitra Chatterjee donned the detective's hat in two films directed by Ray himself in the 1970s. Soumitra Chatterjee originally played Feluda in Satyajit Ray's Feluda series. He acted in Sonar Kella (1974) and Joi Baba Felunath (1979) as Feluda. Both Soumitra and Sabyasachi played the Feluda character with great success. As Sabyasachi said in many interviews, Feluda is one of his idols and favourite heroes from his young age. In the late 80's Sabyasachi met the author of Feluda series Satyajit Ray and expressed an interest in starring as Feluda. But Satyajit Ray said that he will not make another Feluda movie as Santosh Dutta the actor who played the role of Jatayu died in 1988, but he told Sabyasachi to go to his son Sandip Ray who was a rising film director in that time.[7] Then Sabyasachi met Sandip Ray, but Sandip Ray had no plan of making any Feluda film at that time. Then Sabyasachi started working in the movies besides theatre and television.[7]
In the year 1994 Sandip Ray called Sabyasachi Chakrabarti at Ray's home. By that time Sabyasachi had become a well known actor in big screens beside theatre. Ray offered him the iconic hero of Bengali literature, Feluda. It was a dream character for Sabyasachi Chakrabarti. All films of the Feluda new film series (Continuation of the original series) were directed by Sandip Ray. In this series he made ten TV films and five full-length films in Bengali on the character.[7] His first Feluda film was Baksho Rahashya (1996). It was released as a TV film and it was a part of Feluda 30[8] TV film series which includes five TV films based on five Feluda novels and stories. The series continued from the year 1996 to 1997. In 1999 series Satyajiter Gappo[8] includes four Feluda TV films. In the year 2000 he acted in Dr. Munshir Diary[8] as Feluda. It was the last Feluda TV film since 2000.
Satyajiter Goppo (A series of four TV films based on four Feluda mysteries and six short films based on six different short stories of Satyajit Ray) (1998–1999) as Feluda[24]
Moyurkonthi Jelly (A telefilm of Satyajiter Goppo TV film series, 1998) as Shoshanko
Feluda TV film series (1996–2000) ... Feluda (A series of 10 TV films based on Feluda series. The first five TV films were under the package Feluda 30 (1996–1997) aired in DD Bangla, four TV films were under the package Satyajiter Gappo (1998–1999) aired in DD Bangla and the last TV film were under the package Satyajiter priyo Gappo (2000) aired in ETV Bangla)
Golpo Gathar Deshe (1995) (also, as Director)
Basanta Bahar
Ascharya Deepak (1990) ... Deepak Das (Hindi)
Akashpuri (1990)
Siddhartha Chatterjeer Antardhan (1990) ... Detective Somak Sen
Olpo Hasi Olpo Kanna (1990)
Olpo Solpo Golpo (1989) (also, as Director of Photography)
