Prosenjit Chatterjee | |
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Prosenjit Chatterjee at the launch of Celebrity Cricket League - Season 4
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Born |
Kolkata, India |
30 September 1962
Years active | 1983–present |
Spouse(s) |
Debashree Roy (1992–1995, divorced) Aparna Guhathakurata(1997–2002, divorced) Arpita Chatterjee (2002–current) |
Children | Prerona Chatterjee (with Aparna Guha Thakurta) Trishanjit Chatterjee (with Arpita Pal) |
Parent(s) |
Biswajit Chatterjee (father) Ratna Chatterjee (mother) Ira Chatterjee (Step-Mother) |
Relatives |
Pallavi chatterjee(Sister) Shambhavi Chatterjee (Step-Sister) |
Website | prosenjit.in |
Prosenjit Chatterjee (প্রসেনজিৎ চট্টোপাধ্যায়, born 30 September 1962), also known as Bumba Da, is an Indian film actor and producer who works predominantly in Bengali and Hindi cinema. The son of actor Biswajit Chatterjee, he began his acting career as a child actor in Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Chotto Jigyasa, for which he won the Bengal Film Journalists' Association – Most Outstanding Work of the Year Award. Following this he had appeared in some other films as a child actor. Prosenjit's first leading role came through Bimal Roy's Duti Pata, which couldn't take off his career.
Prosenjit's breakthrough role came opposite Vijeta Pandit in Amar Sangi (1987), a highly successful romantic drama directed by Sujit Guha. He made his debut in Hindi cinema with David Dhawan directed Aandhiyan (1990). Apart from appearing in a series of masala films, he started doing middle-of-the-road cinema with Chokher Bali (film) which starred Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in her debut Bengali film and which met with critical and commercial success upon release. He again came back in doing commercial films and in 2006, he again collaborated with Rituparno Ghosh for Dosar and received the Best Actor Award and National Film Award - Special Jury Award / Special Mention (Feature Film) for his performance in the film.