Dwijen Bandyopadhyay (22 September 1949 – 27 September 2017) was a veteran Bengali actor and theater personality from

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. He worked onstage from the 1970s. Bandyopadhyay has also been a professor in the department of Drama at

Rabindra Bharati University Rabindra Bharati University is a public research university in Kolkata, India. It was founded on May 8, 1962, under the Rabindra Bharati Act of the Government of West Bengal in 1961, to mark the birth centenary of the poet Rabindranath Tagore. ...

from 1996 to 2014.

Career

Dwijen Bandyopadhyay has a degree in Chartered Accountancy and has been the Chief Accountant at ''

Amrita Bazar Patrika ''Amrita Bazar Patrika'' was one of the oldest daily newspapers in India. Originally published in Bengali script, it evolved into an English format published from Kolkata and other locations such as Cuttack, Ranchi and Allahabad. The paper ...

'' for many years until the company closed down. He joined as a professor in the department of Drama at Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata right after he came to the limelight through a popular

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comedy-cum-thriller series ''Abar Jakher Dhan.'' Later during the early 2000s he found ground in the acting industry through the TV serials ''Chuni Panna'' and ''Labonyer Sansar''. He acted in various movies and T.V. serials. Bandyopadhyay played in both intellectual and mainstream films along with continuing his work in the culture of

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. He performed in dramas like; ''Amitakshar'', ''Ghora'', ''Samabartan'', ''Balidan'', ''Abhimukh'', ''Dashchakra'', ''Mallabhumi'', and ''Mushthijog, Gunadharer Asukh, Spardhabarna, Monoshchokhyu, Ainshiddho and Bhootnath.'' Bandyopadhyay constituted his own theatre group ''Samstab'' in 1982. His last stage performance was on 1st January, 2016 of the play ''Bhootnath'' at Girish Manch after which he succumbed to a major nerve problem and several minor cerebral strokes.

Partial filmography

* ''

Shudhu Tumi ''Shudhu Tumi'' is a 2004 Bengali film directed by Abhijit Guha and Sudeshna Roy, produced by Sagar Bhora and Siddhartha Bhora, and starring Prosenjit Chatterjee and Koel Mallick in the lead roles. Zubeen Garg composed the music. Cast * P ...

'' (2004) * ''

Chander Bari ''Chander Bari'' is a 2007 Bengali film directed by Tarun Majumdar. The film centers on a middle class joint family. The film is based on a Bengali story written by Pracheta Gupta. Majumdar used some Rabindra Sangeets in this film. Plot The Sa ...

'' (2007) * '' Ami Yasin ar Madhubala'' (2007) * ''

Gorosthaney Sabdhan (film) ''Gorosthaney Sabdhan'' (Bengali: গোরস্থানে সাবধান) is a 2010 thriller film directed by Sandip Ray based on the novel of the same name by Satyajit Ray. The film was released on 10 December 2010. It is different from ...

'' (2010) * ''Prem By Chance'' (2010) * ''

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'' (2010) * ''Katakuti'' (2011) * ''

Gosainbaganer Bhoot ''Gosaibaganer Bhoot'' ( en, The Phantom Of Gosaibagan Grove, bn, গোঁসাইবাগানের ভূত) is a Bengali comedy- fantasy film directed by art director, production designer, and costume designer Nitish Roy, based on a n ...

'' (2011) * ''

Jekhane Bhooter Bhoy ''Jekhane Bhooter Bhoy'' (English: ''Where there is a fear of ghosts'') is a 2012 Indian Bengali film directed by Sandip Ray. There are three short ghost stories in this film. Plot The film starts with Tarinikhuro or Tarinicharan Banerjee, ...

'' (2012) * ''

Hawa Bodol ''Hawa Bodol'' is a 2013 Indian Bengali comedy film directed by Parambrata Chattopadhyay. The film revolves around two childhood friends, who met each other coincidentally after a long time, and somehow their lives swapped after a night of endl ...

'' (2013) * ''

Phoring ''Phoring'' is a 2013 Bengali feature drama film directed by Indranil Roychowdhury. It was produced by Chitrabeekshan Audio Visual PVT LTD., and is 126 minutes long. The film won the Prasad Labs post-production completion award for 2012. Plot o ...

'' (2013) * ''

Ashchorjyo Prodeep ''Aschorjyo Prodeep'' () is a 2013 Indian Bengali-language film directed by Anik Dutta. The film is based on a short story by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay. It is Dutta's second feature film as a director. The film's theatrical trailer was released on ...

'' (2013) * '' Badshahi Angti'' (2014) * ''

Jaatishwar ''Jaatishwar'' () is a 2014 Indian Bengali musical drama film directed by Srijit Mukherji, starring Prosenjit Chatterjee, Jisshu Sengupta and Swastika Mukherjee. The main focus of the plot revolves around the life and notable works of Anthony F ...

'' (2014) * ''

Ichchhemotir Gappo ''Ichchhemotir Gappo'' ( the story of ichchhemoti) is a 2015 Bengali film directed by Atanu Hazra, Adinath Das and Kaushik Sengupta, and produced by Pradip Churiwal and Saikat Mitra for Macneill Media Pvt Ltd. The music is composed by Kalyan Sen ...

'' (2015) * ''

Shajarur Kanta ''Shajarur Kanta'' ( bn, শজারুর কাঁটা) (Lit: ''The Quill of the Porcupine'') is a Bengali mystery novel written by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay in 1967. The murderer kills people using porcupine quills thrust from behind into ...

'' (2015) * ''Beche Thakar Gaan'' (2016) * ''Neemphul'' (2020)

Award

In 1992 he received

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award for his acting in the

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named ''Balidan''.

Death

Dwijen Bandyopadhyay had been suffering from a major nerve problem for a year and nine months. It affected his speech and the right part of the body causing him to be unable to walk normally. Because of this, he couldn't work onstage or onscreen leading him to suffer from immense depression. On 27 September 2017, Bandyopadhyay died of a massive heart attack at his residence at 2:00am in

Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...

at 68.

References

1949 births 2017 deaths Bengali theatre personalities Indian male film actors Male actors from Kolkata Bengali male actors Male actors in Bengali cinema 20th-century Indian male actors 21st-century Indian male actors

External links

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