# Subrat Dutta

Subrata Dutta (born 16 November 1975) is an actor who appears in Indian films. He is best known for his role in Bollywood films like Talaash, Tango Charlie, Zameen, The Shaukeens, Rakhcharitra, Bhootnath Returns and Bengali films Chaturanga, Bibar and Jor.

## Early life and education

Subrat Dutta was born in Bankura district of West Bengal. Eldest of three brothers, he completed his schooling from Bankura Christian Collegiate School and bachelor's degree from Bankura Sammilani College with major in Zoology.
Hailing from a non-filmy background Subrat Dutta had no planning to join films and he was preparing for his MBA, when suddenly an advertisement about a theatre workshop caught his attention. The 40 day long workshop organised by National School of Drama in Berhampore, West Bengal made him change his mind and he decided to join the school. After completing his master's degree from National School of Drama he received a scholarship from Charles Wallace Trust, New Delhi and joined Central School of Speech and Drama, London. Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Swanand Kirkire and Chittaranjan Tripathy were his National School of Drama batchmates.
He started his acting career as a theatre artist for NSD Repertory Company and played lead role in 35 plays before joining films.
Subrat Dutta has learnt dance from PranatI Sengupta and continued to take part in Tagore Dance Drama. He tried to learn Kathak but left after few months. He has also worked in amateur "Jatra".

## Acting career

He made silver screen debut with Hindi film Karvaan by Pankaj Butalia as the main protagonist in 1999. His first Bengali film was Uttara by Buddhadev Dasgupta where he played a small role of a Hindu militant.
In the beginning of his career he has worked for many television series too. His work was noticed in Bengali teleseries Shudhu Tomari Jonyo. He has worked in few episodes of the series "Tehreer…Munshi Premchand Ki” by Gulzar, based on stories of Munsi Premchand directed . He was also featured in few episodes of the thriller series Kagaar on Sahara One. Later he returned to television once with Yash Raj Films series Powder in 2010. After making his debut in both Bollywood and Bengali film, he went on to work in both the industries together. Bollywood films like 88 Antop Hill (2003), Zammen (2003) and Bengali film Swapner Feriwala (2002) were some of his early works.
Subrat Dutta’s fame came with his portrayal of a common man Biresh in Bengali film Bibar directed by Subrata Sen, based on Samaresh Basu’s novel with the same name in the year 2006. He won Best Actor at the Osian’s Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema His next Bengali ventures Jor (2008) and Chaturanga (2008) were completely different from Bibar, that proved his prowess as an actor. He played the main villain Indrajit in Swapan Saha’s commercial film Jor, remake of the super hit Telugu film Okkadu, whereas Suman Mukhopadhay’s period drama Chaturanga was based on Rabindranath Tagore’s novel. He later also starred in the Hindi remake of Okkadu, Tevar (2015) in a different role, allowing Manoj Bajpayee to play the main villain.
In 2009 he was awarded Best Actor at Cairo International Film Festival, Egypt for his portrayal of the main protagonist Madholal in the film Madholal Keep Walking by Jai Tank. The film received positive reviews from critics and Subrat Dutta’s character was highly praised that gave him lead roles in many commercial and independent films in later years.
His next venture was Ram Gopal Varma’s magnum opus, Rakhcharitra part I and &II (2010), where he was noticed for playing the character of AK in Hindi & Telugu simultaneously. In the same year he appeared in Bengali films Achin Pakhi and Antim Shash Sundar opposite Indrani Haldar. He next worked in Talaash(2012), Bengali project Koyekti Meyer Golpo (2012), and some independent Hindi films like Oass (2012), Kaphal (2012) and Baromas (2013), before bagging the role of engineer ghost in super hit film Bhootnath Returns (2014). He next appeared as the main villain Bheera in Roar: Tigers of the Sundarbans (2014) based on tiger poaching in Sundarbans and film director Basu in Akshay Kumar starrer Bollywood film TheShaukeens (2014). In both the films his role received critical acclaim. He also appeared in films like Bumper Draw (2015), Charlie Kay Chakkar Mein (2015) and played lead role as ATS Chief in Sameer (2017) and Gandhian Divakar in Humne Gandhi Ko Mar Diya (2018). His next release was multilimgual III Smoking Barrels where he played the character of a Bangladeshi refugee earned him immense applause from pan Indian audience and critics. His character Mukhtar turns the victim of illegal Elephant poaching where his every move and actions got praised by the critics.
Subrat Dutta was part of Bengali popular series Byomkesh also. He played a noticeable role in Har Har Byomkesh in 2015. Later he played Ajit for Byomkesh series of popular Bengali online channel Hoichoi. He has played the lead character in the emotional drama Bhairavi which was released exclusively on Muvizz.com in 2016. Apart from Bollywood and Bengali films he has also appeared in Marathi film Lalbaugchi Rani (2016), Bhojpuri films Tujhse Laagi Lagan, Pistol Ego Prem Kahani and American production English language film Behind the Trees.
Subrat Dutta has acted in more than 45 films. Most of his films like Uttara, Kaphal: The Wild Berries, Chaturanga, Bibar, Madholal Keep Walking were shown in prestigious National & International Festivals & also won couple of prestigious National and International awards. He has often been referred 'chameleon' as he changed his appearance for every film and experimented with his look for each character he played.
Aasma by Sudipto Sen, T for Tajmahal by Kireet Khurana, Bengali film Sitara opposite Raima Sen and Brishti tomake Dilam opposite Jaya Ahsan are some of his upcoming films.
Subrat Dutta appears in TV and web commercials regularly. Some of his notable commercials are Parle G, Wonder cement, Aircel IPL Commercial, OLX. and Google Paise.

## Personal life

Subrat Dutta is a Yoga expert and practitioner. He was married to theatre director Robijita Gogoii from 2006 to 2018 whom he met in National School of Drama. After long year of courtship they got married on 29 August 2006. Together they have a daughter named Aatreyi born on 8 June 2010.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Language | Role | Director |
| 1999 | Karwaan | Hindi | Gautam | |
| 2000 | Uttara | Bengali | As Hindu militant | |
| 2001 | Lajja | Hindi | Cameo | |
| 2002 | Swapner Feriwala | Bengali | Shome | Subrata Sen |
| 2002 | Dharini | Hindi | | |
| 2003 | 88 Antop Hill | Hindi | Prashant | |
| 2003 | Sala Bandar! | Hindi Short film | Gulshan | Roop Singh Sood |
| 2003 | Zameen | Hindi | Major Puri | |
| 2005 | Tango Charlie | Hindi | As revolutionary leader | |
| 2005 | Mangal Pandey: The Rising | Hindi | Mangal's friend | |
| | Light House (Sudhu Tomari Jonno) | Bengali | | Debangshu Sengupta |
| 2006 | Bibar | Bengali | Biresh | Subrata Sen |
| 2008 | Jor | Bengali | Indrajit | |
| 2008 | Shaurya | Hindi | Colonel Malhotra | Samar Khan |
| 2008 | Tomar Jonyo | Bengali | Rahul Roy | Nilanjan Banerjee |
| 2008 | Chaturanga | Bengali | Sachish | |
| 2008 | 10:10 | Bengali | Apratim | Arin Paul |
| 2009 | Thanks Maa | Hindi | | Irfan Kamal |
| 2009 | Madholal Keep Walking | Hindi | Madholal Dubey | Jai Tank |
| 2010 | Achin Pakhi | Bengali | Achin | |
| 2010 | Antim Swash Sundar | Bengali | Prem Sengupta | Kris Alin |
| 2010 | Rakhta Charitra I | Hindi/Telugu | AK | |
| 2010 | Rakhta Charitra II | Hindi/Telugu | AK | |
| 2012 | Koyekti Meyer Golpo | Bengali | Ashesh | [ |
| 2012 | Oass | Hindi | Jhukki | Abhinav Shiv Tiwari |
| 2012 | Taalash | Hindi | Shashi Nayak | |
| 2012 | Lattoo | Bengali | Aarjo | Ashish Roy |
| 2013 | Meridian Lines | Hindi | Romeo | Venod Mitra |
| 2013 | Kaphal: Wild Berries | Hindi | Kailash | Batul Mukhtiar |
| 2013 | Baromas | Hindi | Eknath Tanpure | Dhiraj Meshram |
| 2013 | Target Kolkata | Bengali | Surjo | Kartick Singh |
| 2014 | Bhootnath Returns | Hindi | Engineer Ghost | Nitesh Tiwari |
| 2014 | ROAR: Tigers of the Sundarbans | Hindi | Bheera | Kamal Sadnah |
| 2014 | The Shaukeens | Hindi | Ranjit Basu | Abhishek Sharma |
| 2015 | Tevar | Hindi | Kaakdi | Amit Ravindernath Sharma |
| 2015 | Pakaram | Bengali | Dipak | Shankar Debnath |
| 2015 | Bumper Draw | Hindi | Villium | Irshad Khan |
| 2015 | Charlie Kay Chakkar Mein | Hindi | Sohail | Manish Srivastav |
| 2015 | Har Har Byomkesh | Bengali | Narmadashankar | Arindam Sil |
| 2016 | Ardhangini Ek Ardhsatya | Bengali | Sandeep | Reema Mukherjee |
| 2016 | Lalbaugchi Rani | Marathi | Drunk guy | Laxman Utekar |
| 2016 | Bhairavi | Hindi | | Suhail Tatari |
| 2017 | Sameer | Hindi | Desai, ATS Chief | Dakxin Bajrange |
| 2018 | Humne Gandhi Ko Mar Diya | Hindi | Divakar | Naeem A Siddiqui |
| 2018 | W | Hindi Short Film | unknown | Sushant Panda |
| 2018 | III Smoking Barrels | Multilingual | Mukhtar | Sanjib Dey |
| 2019 | Dotara | Bengali | Debdutta | Amitabha Dasgupta |
| 2019 | Sitara | Bengali | Manab Sarkar | Ashish Roy |
| 2019 | Brishti Tomake Dilam | Bengali | | Arnab Paul |
| 2019 | Dhuusar | Bengali | Prashanta Guha | Snehashish Mondal, Soumi Saha |
| 2019 | Junction Varanasi | Hindi | Sadhu's Associate | Dheeraj Pandit |
| 2019 | Josef – Born in Grace | Hindi | Josef | Susant Misra |
| 2019 | Behind the Trees | English | Navin | Vikram Jayakumar |
| 2019 | Dhumkkudiya | Hindi | Kamal | Nandlal Nayak |
| 2020 | Uraan | Bengali | Arif Alam | Tridib Raman |
| 2020 | Harami | Hindi | Dhiren Yvas | Shyam Madiraju |
| 2020 | Banaras Vanilla | Hindi | | Sumit Mishra |
| 2020 | Lucknow Times | Hindi | Kallol Ghosh | Sudipto Sen |
| 2020 | Uraan | Bengali | Arif Alam | Tridib Raman |
| 2020 | Harami | Hindi | Dhiren Yvas | Shyam Madiraju |
| 2020 | Banaras Vanilla | Hindi | | Sumit Mishra |
| 2020 | Lucknow Times | Hindi | Kallol Ghosh | Sudipto Sen |
| 2023 | Guthlee Ladoo | Hindi | Mangru (father of Guthlee ) | Ishrat R Khan |
| 2024 | Bastar: The Naxal Story | Hindi | | Sudipto Sen |
Upcoming Films
| Year | Film | Language | Character | Director |
| Upcoming | T for Tajmahal | Hindi | Bansi | Kireet Khurana |
| Upcoming | Lucknow Times | Hindi | Kallol Ghosh | Sudipto Sen |
| Upcoming | Josef- Born In Grace | Hindi | Josef | Susant Misra |
| Upcoming | Aasma | Hindi | Intekab | Sudipto Sen |
| Upcoming | He Man | Hindi | Jack | Puneet Issar |
| Upcoming | Dhuusar (Grey) | Bengali | Prashanta Guha | Snehashish Mondal, Soumi Saha |
| Upcoming | Behind the Trees | English | Navin | Vikram Jayakumar |
| Upcoming | Flowers of the Mountain | Hindi | Parijat Mukherjee | Shuvro Roy |
| Upcoming | Battle of Chhuriyaan | Hindi | Turram | Ravi Singh |

### TV series

| Year | Title | Episodes/Character | Channel |
| 2002-2003 | Shudhu Tomari Jonyo | Shankar Dada Onyo Rong | Etv Bangla |
| 2002-2003 | Tehreer…Munsi Premchand Ki | Namak Ka Daroga Sawa Sher Gehu | DD National |
| 2002 | Kagaar | Operation Rameswaram | Sahara One |
| 2010 | Powder | As Zonal Inspector Bose | Sony Entertainment Television |

### Web series

He has played the character of a broker in Netflix Original Series Selection Day. He has also appeared as Ajit in Hoichoi TV’s popular show Byomkesh for three seasons from 2017-2018.
| Year | Series | Character | Web channel |
| 2018 | Selection Day | Season 1: Broker | Netflix |
| 2017-2018 | Byomkesh | Season 1: Satyanweshi and Pather Kanta as Ajit/Makorshar Rosh and Arthamanartham as Ajit Season 2: Rokter Dag and Roktomukhi Nila as Ajit Season 3: Sajarur Kanta as Ajit | Hoichoi |
| 2019 | Montu Pilot | Season 1 | Hoichoi |
| 2020 | Lalbazaar | Season 1: A.C Port Gaurav Dutta | Zee5 |
| 2020 | Shobdo Jobdo | Season 1: Dr. Amitabha Mitra | Hoichoi |
| 2020 | High | Season 1: Dr. Roy | MX Player |
| 2022 | Feludar Goyendagiri | Season 1:Mahadev Verma | Hoichoi |
| 2023 | Honeymoon (2023 web series) | Season 1: Shekhar | Klikk |
| 2024 | Kaantaye Kaantaye | | ZEE5 |

## Awards

* Best Actor: Cairo International Film Festival, Egypt, 2009
* Best Actor: at Osian's-Cinefan, New Delhi, 2006
* Best Actor: Dehradun International Film Festival, 2021 (Josef – Born in Grace)
* Best Actor: Manikarnika International Film Festival, 2022 (Josef – Born in Grace)