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Sangee
''Sangee'' () is an Indian Bengali-language romantic emotional drama film directed by Haranath Chakraborty. Featuring Jeet and Priyanka Trivedi in their second film together, it served as the Bengali remake of the 1998 Tamil film '' Kannedhirey Thondrinal''. Silajit Majumder plays a crucial role in the film. Plot Bijay, the son of a prominent businessman from Siliguri, comes to Calcutta for his higher studies. At the Bidhannagar Road railway station, he has a chance meeting with Rupa. Bijay experiences what is termed "love at first sight" according to his mentor and maternal uncle Prabhu Mama. In spite of getting off on the wrong foot with a student, Rana, at his college, they become close friends after Bijay helps Rana fight off some goons. Although Bijay comes from a rich and affluent background, he is very down to earth, a fact that Rana appreciates. Bijay pursues Rupa, unaware of the fact that Rupa is Rana's younger sister. An initially disinterested Rupa gradually falls ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babul Supriyo
Babul Supriyo (born 15 December 1970) is an Indian playback singer, live performer, television host, actor and politician who currently serves as Cabinet Minister of Information Technology and Electronics and Tourism of the Government of West Bengal. He was elected Member of Parliament from Asansol in the 16th and 17th Lok Sabha and also served as the Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, in the Union Council of Ministers. He officially resigned as MP on 19 October 2021. and was elected as a Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly on 16 April 2022 from Ballygunge Assembly seat. He made a career as playback singer in Hindi cinema in the mid-nineties and has sung for many films since then. He primarily sings in Hindi, Bengali, and Odia languages. However, he has also done playback singing in 11 other languages during his musical career. He entered politics in 2014 and joined Narendra Modi's government. He previously served as Union Minister of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shree Venkatesh Films
SVF Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. is an Indian media and entertainment company headquartered in Kolkata, West Bengal, founded by Shrikant Mohta. Apart from producing and distributing Bengali language, Bengali films, SVF also distributes Bollywood and Hollywood films in Eastern India. The other divisions of the company include Exhibition, TV Content Production, Digital Cinema, Music, New Media and IPR syndication. SVF was in Anandabazar Patrika's powerlist for 2008 and 2010. Background SVF Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. was founded in 1995 by Shrikant Mohta and Mahendra Soni. They started off as distributors of Hindi films like ''Bekaar Ka Number, Khamoshi: The Musical, Khamoshi'' in Eastern India. Their first production was the 1996 film ''Bhai Amar Bhai'' starring Prosenjit and Chiranjit and directed by Swapan Saha which became a blockbuster. Later, they produced the Prosenjit starrer ''Sasurbari Zindabad'' (2000) which became the highest-grossing Bengali movie until then. They followe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kavita Krishnamurthy
Sharada Krishnamurthy, popularly known as Kavita Krishnamurthy or Kavita Subramaniam, is an Indian playback and classical singer. She has recorded 50,000 songs in 45 various Indian languages including Hindi, Bengali, Kannada, Rajasthani, Bhojpuri, Telugu, Odia, Marathi, English, Urdu, Tamil, Malayalam, Gujarati, Nepali, Assamese, Konkani, Punjabi and other languages. She is the recipient of four Filmfare Best Female Playback Singer Awards (winning consecutively during 1995–1997), and the Padmashri which she received in 2005. She was awarded a Doctorate (Honoris Causa) for her contributions to Indian music by Bangalore-based Jain University in 2015. In 1999, she married noted violinist L. Subramaniam and resides in Bengaluru. Early life Born as Sharada into a Tamil Iyer family in New Delhi to T.S. Krishnamurthy, an employee of the Education Ministry. She began her musical training at the insistence of her aunt, Protima Bhattacharya who enrolled her to train under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haranath Chakraborty
Haranath Chakraborty ( bn, হরনাথ চক্রবর্তী) is an Indian Bengali film director. He made his directorial debut with "Mangaldeep" (1989). Many of his movies have been critically acclaimed and enjoyed commercial success. Early life and career He was Born on 1 January 1959 in West Bengal. He was assistant director of Anjan Choudhury Anjan Choudhury (25 November 1944 – 21 February 2007) was an Indian film director, writer, and screenplay writer who worked in the Bengali cinema of West Bengal. He was survived by his wife Jaysree Choudhury and two daughters, namely Chumki ... Group. His directorial debut film ''Mangaldeep'' was released in 1989. Awards Chakraborty's film, ''Ganrakal'' (2004) won the Bengal Film Journalists' Association – Best Clean & Entertainment Film Award. Filmography References External links * 1959 births Living people 20th-century Indian film directors Bengali film directors 21st-century Indian film di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeet (Actor)
Jeet (Jeetendra Madnani) is an Indian actor, producer, television judge and television presenter. He is a superstar in the Tollywood film industry. Career Jeet started his modeling career in 1993. His first acting assignment was ''Bishabriksha'' (199495), a Bengali TV series directed by Bishnu Palchaudhuri. He made his big screen debut with ''Chandu'' (2001), a Telugu film. His first success came in 2002, opposite Priyanka Trivedi, through '' Sathi'', a highly successful romantic drama, directed by Haranath Chakraborty, for which he won the Bengal Film Journalists' Association – Most Promising Actor Award and Anandalok Awards for Best Actor. In the same year, he acted in the Bengali remake of ''Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar''. This initial success was followed by other critical and commercial successes, including ''Nater Guru'', ''Sangee'', '' Bandhan'' and ''Yuddho''. In 2005, he acted alongside Koel Mallick in ''Nater Guru'', which released to critical and commercial success ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priyanka Trivedi
Priyanka Upendra (née Trivedi) is an Indian actress who predominantly appears in Kannada Language films. Early life Priyanka was born in Calcutta (now Kolkata). Her mother is from West Bengal and father from Uttar Pradesh. She spent ten years of her schooling life in the US and about three years in Singapore, before graduating with a commerce degree from a college in Kolkata. She described herself as "little introverted, pretty flexible as a person, a good listener and overtly sensitive." She appeared in television commercials for brands such as Britannia, Orient Electric and Pillsbury in the late 1990s. During this time, she was cast by director Basu Chatterjee in his first Bengali film, ''Hothat Brishti'' (1998). She went on to make two more films with him, ''Chupi Chupi'' (2001) and ''Tak Jhal Mishti'' (2002). Career Beginnings Priyanka subsequently moved to Mumbai and acted in the Hindi film ''Mujhe Meri Biwi Se Bachaao'' (2001). She then began receiving offers for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ranjit Mallick
Ranjit Mallick (রঞ্জিত মল্লিক) (born 28 September 1944) is an Indian actor who works mainly in Bengali cinema. He is particularly known for appearing in films such as ''Interview'', ''Mouchak'', ''Shatru'', ''Shakha Proshakha'', '' Guru Dakshina'', ''Amader Songsar'', ''Indrajit'', ''Jiban Niye Khela'', ''Nabab'', '' Sathi'', ''Nater Guru'', '' Gyarakal'', '' Chander Bari'' and ''Bajimaat''. He was also the Sheriff of Kolkata for the year 2014. He is one of the most anticipated actors of Bengali cinema and has been a part of more than 100 films as of now. Early life Ranjit was born on 28 September 1944 in Calcutta, West Bengal, into the Mallick ''Bari'' of Bhowanipore (a family belonging to the Vaidya (Baidya) community, which is closely associated with Kolkata's Barat and Gupta families), known for its Durga Puja. His nickname is Ranju. He studied at the Asutosh College and later at the Syamaprasad College of the University of Calcutta. Career Ranji ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajesh Sharma (actor)
Rajesh Sharma is an Indian actor who acts in Hindi and Bengali films. Early life He was born in Ludhiana, India and worked in Kolkata. There he started acting in a theatre group named 'Rangakarmi' in Kolkata. He is an alumnus of the National School of Drama, New Delhi passed out in year 1980. Rajesh Sharma has been married and divorced to Sudipta Chakraborty, a Bengali actress and is married to Sangeeta Sharma since 2011. Career Rajesh Sharma made his Bollywood debut with the 1996 Hindi movie, Maachis. After this, he started acting in Bengali films from early 2000s. in Maachis, Rajesh Sharma co-starred with Chandrachur Singh, Jimmy Shergill, Raj Zutshi, Tabu and Om Puri. In 2000, he made a comeback in Bengali-film titled, Paromitar Ek Din. It was written and directed by Aparna Sen. After acting in a few more Bengali films, he came back to Bollywood in 2005 with the film Parineeta. It was Vidya Balan's debut movie where she acted against Saif Ali Khan. Rajesh Sharma works ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anuradha Sriram
Anuradha Sriram (born 9 July 1970) is an Indian carnatic and playback singer and child actress who hails from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. She has sung more than 700 songs in Tamil, Telugu, Sinhala, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali and Hindi films. Early life Anuradha was born in Chennai to playback singer Renuka Devi and Meenakshi Sundaram Mohan. She did her schooling (I and II standards) in Coimbatore at the St. Francis Anglo-Indian Girls School, and later at the Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan, Chennai. She has a B.A and M.A in music from Queen Mary's College in Madras University and secured the university gold medal in both the courses. She was given a fellowship to do her Master of Arts degree in Ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University, Connecticut, US. She was trained by many esteemed gurus like Thanjavur S. Kalyanaraman, Sangeetha Kalanidhi T. Brinda and T. Viswanathan in Carnatic music and has had intensive training under Pandit Mannikbua Thakurdas for Hindustani classi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anuradha Sreeram
Anuradha Sriram (born 9 July 1970) is an Indian carnatic and playback singer and child actress who hails from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. She has sung more than 700 songs in Tamil, Telugu, Sinhala, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali and Hindi films. Early life Anuradha was born in Chennai to playback singer Renuka Devi and Meenakshi Sundaram Mohan. She did her schooling (I and II standards) in Coimbatore at the St. Francis Anglo-Indian Girls School, and later at the Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan, Chennai. She has a B.A and M.A in music from Queen Mary's College in Madras University and secured the university gold medal in both the courses. She was given a fellowship to do her Master of Arts degree in Ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University, Connecticut, US. She was trained by many esteemed gurus like Thanjavur S. Kalyanaraman, Sangeetha Kalanidhi T. Brinda and T. Viswanathan in Carnatic music and has had intensive training under Pandit Mannikbua Thakurdas for Hindustani classi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanchan Mullick
Kanchan Mullick is an Indian Bengali film and television actor and politician. In addition to the television show ''Janata Express'', Kanchan has also acted in movies like ''Mahakaal'' and ''Ranjana Ami Ar Ashbona''. He is also a Bengali theatre artist. He has worked in the theatre group Swapnasandhani. Mullick is an All India Trinamool Congress candidate at Uttarpara constituency in 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, and has won the seat. Filmography Web series See also * Kaushik Sen Koushik Sen (born 19 September 1968) is an Indian actor of film, television and theatre based in Kolkata. He is the director of the well-acclaimed theatre group Swapnasandhani. He has won the BFJA awards for best supporting actor for his perform ..., Bengali actor * Swapnasandhani, Bengali theatre group References External links * Male actors in Bengali cinema Bengali male television actors Living people University of Calcutta alumni Indian male stage actors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silajit
Silajit Majumder ( bn, শিলাজিৎ মজুমদার, born 9 October 1965), first name also spelled ''Shilajit'', is an Indian Bengali male singer songwriter and actor from Kolkata. He is mostly credited by his first name. As an actor he is best known for his roles in films like ''Asukh'' (1999) by Rituparno Ghosh and ''Krantikaal'' (2005) by Sekhar Das. He took a remarkable place in Bigg Boss Bangla season 2. Education Majumder received his education at the Saint Paul K G school, the Scottish Church Collegiate School, and the Scottish Church College, before graduating from the Vidyasagar College of the University of Calcutta in English literature. Works Discography This is a list of music albums of Majumder * ''Bhoomika'' (1994) * ''Aamra o Benche Aachi'' (1995) * ''Thik Ekhan e'' (1996) * ''X=Prem'' (2000) * ''X=2Prem'' (2001) * ''Silajit er Paglami – Fisfis'' (2002) * ''Lal Matir Sorane'' (2003) * ''Rimjhim'' (2004) * ''Sarbonash'' (2004) * ''Folk Rock Aa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
