Shekhar Chattopadhyay

Acting Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India [now India]

Shekhar Chatterjee (1924–1990) was an Indian actor and film director. Chatterjee was born in Kolkata in 1924. He began his career in the Bengali theatre in the 1950s. He was associated with several leftist theatre groups, including the Communist Party's Indian People's Theatre Association, Utpal Dutt's Little Theatre Group, and Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop, as well as his own group, Theatre Unit, which he formed in 1958. As a stage actor, he was well known for his Shakespearean roles and for playing Shardul Singh in Dutt's 1965 play Kallol. His directorial work focused on works by German-language playwrights Bertold Brecht, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Peter Handke, and Franz Xaver Kroetz. Chatterjee's Brecht productions were rarely adapted to a local setting, and while critics unanimously praised this approach as "authentic", his colleague Dutt attacked it for failing to communicate Brecht's political symbolism to an Indian audience.

29 Acting Credits

4 Crew Credits

Shekhar Chattopadhyay

Acting

Gandhi

The Expedition

Chiriyakhana

Bhuvan Shome

Interview

Chorus

The Royal Hunt

The Sage from the Sea

Sangsar Simantey

The Wish Fulfilment

Maa

Marjina Abdulla

Sabar Uparey

Kuheli

An Unfinished Story

Sangini

Nishimrigaya

Kal Tumi Aleya

Joradighir Chowdhury Paribar

Raktatilak

Rodon Bhara Basanta

Garh Nasimpur

Barbadhu

Vasundhara

Crew

Basanta Bilap

Marjina Abdulla

Sangini

Vasundhara