Soumyajit Majumdar | |
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Born | Kolkata |
Occupation(s) | Actor, Director, Producer |
Soumyajit Majumdar is an Indian actor, director and producer.[1] He is mostly known for his roles in Aashiqui 2 (2013), Har Har Byomkesh (2015), Gangster (2016), Kiriti Roy (2016), Te3n (2016) and Ghost of the Golden Groves (2019).[2] He has also produced Bengali language film Homecoming (2022).[3][4][5]
He was born in Kolkata. He completed his education in mass communication and videography from St. Xaviers College Kolkata.[6][7]
He started his career by playing a cameo in a Bengali film Gandu in 2010.[8] Majumdar made an entry into the Hindi film industry by playing a role in Mohit Suri's Aashiqui 2 in 2013, featuring Aditya Roy Kapur and Shraddha Kapoor.[9] In 2015, he was roped in for Har Har Byomkesh, a Bengali mystery thriller by Arindam Sil.[10] In 2016, he featured in a Hindi film Te3n by Ribhu Dasgupta, starring Amitabh Bachchan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Vidya Balan.[11] In the same year, he played a role in Birsa Dasgupta's Gangster and Aniket Chattopadhyay's Kiriti Roy. In 2019, he starred in Ghost of the Golden Groves movie, which also premiered at the London Indian Film Festival.[12][13]
In 2022, he directed and produced his first Bengali film Homecoming,[14] featuring Sayani Gupta, Hussain Dalal and Plabita Borthakur.[15][16][17] It was released on SonyLiv on 18 February 2022.[18][19][20] It won the award for Best Film at the 19th annual South Asian International Film Festival, New York and Best Asian Film at Tokyo Film Awards.[21] It was also the opening film at the Gange Sur Seine Film Festival held from 5–8 October 2023.[22] Soumyajit won the best director award for Homecoming at the Gange Sur Seine Film Festival in Paris.[23] In 2023, he started making a biopic on iconic Bengali Baul artist Parvathy Baul.[24]
Year | Award | Category | Result | Ref.(s) |
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2023 | Gange Sur Seine Film Festival | Best Director | Won | [25] |