Subhankar Chattopadhyay (
Bengali
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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
Mithun Chakraborty
Mithun Chakraborty (born Gouranga Chakraborty; 16 June 1950) is an Indian actor, producer and politician who predominantly worked in Hindi and Bengali language films. He is a former Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament. He is the recipient of three ...
. He is known for directing television shows, including ''
Dadagiri Unlimited
''Dadagiri Unlimited'' is an Indian Bengali language quiz show. The programme has been airing on Zee Bangla since 2009. Sourav Ganguly, the former captain of the India national cricket team and the current president of the Board of Control for ...
'', ''
Dance Bangla Dance
''Dance Bangla Dance'' is a Bengali reality show program, which airs in Zee Bangla. It was later remade in Hindi as ''Dance India Dance''. It first started on 6 April 2007, following ''Dance India Dance'' by Mithun Chakraborty, who had been the ...
'', ''
Mirakkel
''Mirakkel'' is an Indian reality show on Zee Bangla hosted by Mir Afsar Ali and directed by Subhankar Chattopadhyay. It is produced by Subhankar Chattopadhyay Productions. The show features stand-up comedians judged by Paran Bandyopadhyay, Sr ...
'' 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 ''
Super Singer Junior
''Super Singer Junior'' – ''Ithu Thamizhagathin Chellakuralukkana Thedal (the search for the sweet voice of Tamil Nadu)'' – is a Reality television, reality TV show since 2007 hosted by Vijay TV, a popular Tamil channel of the Star Network, ...
'' finale and audition. He introduced
remote work
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for a non-fiction singing reality show, ''
Super Singer'', amid the
COVID-19 pandemic in India
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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
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman ( bn, শেখ মুজিবুর রহমান; 17 March 1920 – 15 August 1975), often shortened as Sheikh Mujib or Mujib and widely known as Bangabandhu (meaning ''Friend of Bengal''), was a Bengalis, Beng ...
. All the prominent cultural personas like
Rezwana choudhury Bannya to Swadhin Bangla betar artists were in the show, prime minister of Bangladesh
Sheikh Hasina
Sheikh Hasina Wazed (''née'' Sheikh Hasina ; ; bn, শেখ হাসিনা ওয়াজেদ, Shēkh Hasinā, , born 28 September 1947) is a Bangladeshi politician who has served as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Prime Minister ...
and president of Bangladesh, Mr.
Abdul Hamid ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd (ALA-LC romanization of ar, عبد الحميد) is a Muslim male given name, and in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words '' ʻabd'' and ''al-Ḥamīd'', one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which gave rise t ...
and India, Mr.
Ram Nath Kovind
Ram Nath Kovind (; born 1 October 1945) is an Indian politician who served as the 14th President of India from 2017 to 2022. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is the second person after K. R. Narayanan, from the Dalit community ...
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
Baruipur
Baruipur () is a town and a municipality of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a part of the area covered by the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA). It is the headquarters of the Baruipur su ...
,
South 24 Parganas
South 24 Parganas (Pron: pɔrɡɔnɔs; abbr. 24 PGS (S)), or sometimes South Twenty Four Parganas and Dakshin 24 Parganas, is a district in the Indian state of West Bengal, headquartered in Alipore. It is the largest district of West Bengal by ...
,
West Bengal
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, in 1977. He did his schooling from
Baruipur High School
Baruipur High School (BHS) is a government high school for boys, located in Baruipur, West Bengal, India. This is a boys' only school for secondary and higher secondary level students. It is one of the deemed schools in Kolkata. The campus inc ...
. 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
Zee Bangla
Zee Bangla is an Indian general entertainment pay television channel broadcasting in the Bengali language. It is owned by the Zee Entertainment Enterprises. It is the first Bengali-language satellite television channel in India, officially com ...
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''.
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References
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Living people
1977 births
Indian directors
Writers from West Bengal
Indian producers