
(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.
Avinash Gupta
Maharaja
Bhujang Chaudhary
Prankrishna/Nabakrishna's uncle
Shatrujit
Mr. Bhan
Badri Prasad Sharma
Jagdishbhai
Priyanath Das
Newspaper Editor
Hirak Raja
Mini's Uncle
Raj Tilak
Manager
Sahuji
Mr. Sen
Mr. Sanyal
Rasiklal
Joginder Nath
Chieftain
Magician
Balbir Singh
Manomohan Mitra
Bhavani Shankar Bajpai
Bhavani Shankar
Satya
Saxena
Mr. Bhattacharya (Usha's father)
Bishwanath 'Bishu' Bose
Prof. Saran
Michael Madhusudhan Dutta
Bhuvan Shome
Captain Vinod's Father
Kailashpati Trivedi
K. K. Sahib
Sadanand Chaudhary
Dr. Majumdar
Bhola Singh
MLA Goverdhan Verma
Lawyer
Hossain Miah
Aparna's Father
Dr. Sen
Udit Narayan Gupta
Nekiram
Mahesh Babu
Self (archive footage)
Public Prosecutor
Pannalal Roy Chowdhury
Ustal Zafar Khan
Vikram Singh
Maganlal Meghraj
Bhupati
The Priest / Postman / Beggar
Tejen Banerjee
Prof. Gupta
Diwan Dhanpat Rai
Advocate
Barrister Mitter
Dr. Shome
Annadababu
Bose
Mr. Ghosh
Marco Polo
Public Prosecutor Dalaal
Jamaal Saab
Sriram Seth
Keya's Father
Police Commissioner Ajay Basu
Maheem Ghosal
Rajmohan / White Boss
Self
Sitanath Ardhnarayan Choudhry
Maganlal Meghraj
Mr. Singh
Police Inspector Durendra Bhatavdekar
Maganbhai
Saxena
Village Teacher
Grandfather
Advocate
Vedji
Rashbihari
Badriprasad
Dr. Bhaskar
Dhanajay Sarkar (Rati's lawyer)
Sitesh Pyne