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Subhankar Chattopadhyay (
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: শুভঙ্কর চট্টোপাধ্যায়; born 1977) is an Indian director, scriptwriter, content creator, and producer. He is a non-fiction show creator in Tollywood. He directed the film ''Haanda & Bhonda'' (2010), starring
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. He is known for directing television shows, including ''
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'', ''
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'', ''
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'' and others. Chattopadhyay and his team became known in history of the world television to air their shows twice for a duration of 10 hours continuously, for ''
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'' finale and audition. He introduced
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for a non-fiction singing reality show, '' Super Singer'', amid the
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. He directed the show where the participants, hosts, and jury shot their respective parts with their mobile phones from the safety of their homes. He has directed 'Mohabijoyer Mohanayok', an event organized to celebrate 50 years of Bangladesh Independence & 100 years birth anniversary of
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. All the prominent cultural personas like Rezwana choudhury Bannya to Swadhin Bangla betar artists were in the show, prime minister of Bangladesh
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and president of Bangladesh, Mr.
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and India, Mr.
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and many more esteemed guests were there to witness the show. Show was on air live in all the government and private satellite channels of Bangladesh.


Life and career

Chattopadhyay was born in
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,
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,
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, in 1977. He did his schooling from
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. He graduated from City College, Kolkata. He started his career at ''Little Magazine'', forayed into electronic media as a scriptwriter following which he worked for
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as an executive producer for many years before directing successful non-fiction shows.


Works


Television


Web series


Filmography


Events


Literary works

He has been practicing his art of writing for years; his writing has also been published in the ''Desh'' magazine quite a few numbers of times. In between the year 2000–2003, his literary pieces 'Tobu j Ami Jiggasha Chinho' and 'Prem Porjoton phaad' was published. Beside this, he was also an editor of a magazine called ''Poddyo Chorcha''.https://ebela.in/entertainment/dadagiri-director-subhankar-chattopadhyay-has-an-other-side-too-dgtl-1.658880


References

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