Chittaranjan Tripathy (born in 1971) is an actor, director, and music director who predominantly works in

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and Odia films. He also acted & directed several

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and

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movies, But he is best known for his role as 'Trivedi' in the

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series Sacred Games.

Early life and education

Tripathy was born in

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. He completed his MA in

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at the

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and, in 1996, a Diploma in Acting at the

National School of Drama National School of Drama (NSD) is a theatre training institute situated at New Delhi, India. It is an autonomous organization under Ministry of Culture, Government of India. It was set up in 1959 by the Sangeet Natak Akademi and became an indepe ...

in Delhi. He's the batchmate of famous Bollywood actor

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. Then he studied directing at the

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Career

In 2007, Tripathy came to the Odia movie industry with his film

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, for which he was producer, director, scriptwriter, music director, lyricist and playback singer. The film received three

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. He made another movie ''Mukhyamantri'' in 2009. Other than this he has made more than 50 plays, including the NSD Rep's premiere production of ''Taj Mahal Ka Tender'' (for which he directed as well as wrote lyrics and music). He has directed episodes of television soaps ''Dhund Legi Manjil Hume'', ''Ye isk he'', ''Jaani Pehchani Si Ajnabi'', ''Mano Ya Na Mano'', and ''Savdhan India''. He has acted in Hindi movies ''Delhi 6'', ''Fantom'', ''Sandar'', ''Talvar'', and ''Tera mera tedha medha''. Tripathy has composed over 500 songs for plays. His last success was playing the role of Trivedi in the popular

web-series '' Sacred Games''. He also played the negative character in the latest

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and

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web-series M.O.M - Mission Over Mars (2019).

Honours and awards

* 2007 - Mohana Sundara Dev Goswami Award - ''

'' * 2007 - Odisha State Film Award for Best Music Director - ''Dhauli Express'' * 2007 - Odisha State Film Award for Best Singer - ''Dhauli Express'' * 2016 - Odisha State Film Award for Best Comedian - '' Love you Jessica''

Filmography

Films

Television

References

External links

* 1971 births Living people People from Bhadrak district Indian male screenwriters 21st-century Indian film directors 21st-century Indian male actors Indian lyricists Odia film directors {{India-film-director-stub