
(29 March 1929 – 19 August 1993) was an Indian actor, director, and writer-playwright. He was primarily an actor in Bengali theatre, where he became a pioneering figure in Modern Indian theatre, when he founded the "Little Theatre Group" in 1949. This group enacted many English, Shakespearean and Brecht plays, in a period now known as the "Epic theatre" period, before it immersed itself completely in highly political and radical theatre. His plays became an apt vehicle for the expression of his Marxist ideologies, visible in socio-political plays such as Kallol (1965), Manusher Adhikar, Louha Manob (1964), Tiner Toloar and Maha-Bidroha. He also acted in over 100 Bengali and Hindi films in a career spanning 40 years, and remains most known for his roles in films such as Mrinal Sen’s Bhuvan Shome (1969), Satyajit Ray’s Agantuk (1991), Gautam Ghose’s Padma Nadir Majhi (1992) and Hrishikesh Mukherjee's breezy Hindi comedies such as Gol Maal (1979) and Rang Birangi (1983).[1][2][3][4] He also did the role of a sculptor, Sir Digindra Narayan, in the episode Seemant Heera of Byomkesh Bakshi (TV series) on Doordarshan in 1993, shortly before his death.

as Self (archive footage)

as Hossain Miah

as Biplab Panja

as Manomohan Mitra

as MLA Goverdhan Verma

as Grandfather

as Sadanand Chaudhary

as The Priest / Postman / Beggar

as Bhujang Chaudhary

as Jamaal Saab

as Village Teacher

as Police Commissioner Ajay Basu

as Tejen Banerjee

as Mr. Singh

as K. K. Sahib

as Mahesh Babu

as Sitanath Ardhnarayan Choudhry

as Badri Prasad Sharma

as Keya's Father

as Bhola Singh

as Maganbhai

as Self

as Kailashpati Trivedi

as Police Inspector Durendra Bhatavdekar

as Sriram Seth

as Udit Narayan Gupta

as Jagdishbhai

as Raj Tilak

as Badriprasad

as Bhavani Shankar Bajpai

as Sahuji

as Newspaper Editor

as Hirak Raja

as Advocate

as Aparna's Father

as Prof. Saran

as Public Prosecutor Dalaal

as Annadababu

as Dr. Bhaskar

as Diwan Dhanpat Rai

as Bhavani Shankar

as Saxena

as Maganlal Meghraj

as Avinash Gupta

as Vikram Singh

as Mr. Sen

as Magician

as Rasiklal

as Nekiram

as Balbir Singh

as Mini's Uncle

as Mr. Sanyal

as Sitesh Pyne

as Prankrishna/Nabakrishna's uncle

as Panchabhoot Baba AKA Jawga Da

as Bishwanath 'Bishu' Bose

as Rashbihari

as Rajmohan / White Boss

as Maheem Ghosal

as Mr. Bhattacharya (Usha's father)

as Satya

as Mr. Bhan

as Manager

as Shatrujit

as Mr. Ghosh

as Saxena

as Pannalal Roy Chowdhury

as Chieftain

as Vedji

as Captain Vinod's Father

as Prof. Gupta

as Bhupati

as Lawyer

as Bose

as Advocate

as Priyanath Das

as Joginder Nath

as Bhuvan Shome

as Ustal Zafar Khan

as Marco Polo

as Dhanajay Sarkar (Rati's lawyer)

as Maharaja

as Dr. Shome

as Dr. Sen

as Barrister Mitter

as Public Prosecutor

as Dr. Majumdar

as Michael Madhusudhan Dutta

as Maganlal Meghraj