His father was Shailendra Chattopadhyay and mother Manimala Devi. In 1953, he was admitted into Calcutta Medical College. In 1960, he completed his M.B.B.S. and became a doctor. He worked in Civil Defence and later joined Kolkata Municipal Corporation.
He was involved with amateur theatre under the tutelage of Jnanesh Mukherjee, a stalwart of Bengali theatre and films, and started trying his luck on the silver screen. He was involved with the IPTA. The elder of his two sons is the Bengali actor Saswata Chatterjee and the other based in the USA.
Satyen Mitra (Shotu)
Self
Bijoy
Sanjoy
Biresh Guha (as Subhendu Chattopadhyay)
Anjan Mukherjee
Shankar
Romita's Father
MLA Sanyal
Subimal (as Subhendu Chattopadhyay)
Soumick's elder brother
Prashanto
Dr. Rajen Munshi
Ashok Bose, Editor of Dainik Janagan, Jhuma's father
Baren Ray
Ajay
Prof. Bagchi
Kumar Roy