Subrata Dutta

He made silver screen debut with Hindi film Karvaan by Pankaj Butalia as the main protagonist in 1999. His first Bengali film was Uttara by Buddhadev Dasgupta where he played a small role of a Hindu militant. In the beginning of his career he has worked for many television series too. His work was noticed in Bengali teleseries Shudhu Tomari Jonyo . He has worked in few episodes of the series " Tehreer…Munshi Premchand Ki” by Gulzar , based on stories of Munsi Premchand directed .

He was also featured in few episodes of the thriller series Kagaar on Sahara One . Later he returned to television once with Yash Raj Films series Powder in 2010. After making his debut in both Bollywood and Bengali film, he went on to work in both the industries together. Bollywood films like 88 Antop Hill (2003), Zammen (2003) and Bengali film Swapner Feriwala (2002) were some of his early works.

Subrat Dutta ’s fame came with his portrayal of a common man Biresh in Bengali film Bibar directed by Subrata Sen , based on Samaresh Basu ’s novel with the same name in the year 2006. He won Best Actor at the Osian’s Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema His next Bengali ventures Jor (2008) and Chaturanga (2008) were completely different from Bibar , that proved his prowess as an actor.

He played the main villain Indrajit in Swapan Saha ’s commercial film Jor , remake of the super hit Telugu film Okkadu , whereas Suman Mukhopadhay ’s period drama Chaturanga was based on Rabindranath Tagore ’s novel. He later also starred in the Hindi remake of Okkadu , Tevar (2015) in a different role, allowing Manoj Bajpayee to play the main villain.