Bhaswar Chatterjee

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Bhaswar Chatterjee
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Chatterjee in 2012
Born (1975-03-08) 8 March 1975 (age 49)
Nationality Indian
EducationGraduated in bio-science
Alma mater Ashutosh College
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
South Point School
Occupation Actor
Years active1998–present
Known forPlaying Batukeshwar Dutt in The Legend of Bhagat Singh (2002)
SpouseNabamita Chatterjee(2014-2020)
Parents
  • Nripen Chatterjee (father)
  • Aparna Chatterjee(Late) (mother)

Bhaswar Chatterjee (born 8 March 1975) is a Bengali film and television actor. [1] [2] He attended high school at South Point School and graduated in bioscience from Asutosh College. Before getting his first job in GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals in 1996, he obtained a diploma in marketing and sales management from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan.

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In 1998, his first appearance on television was in Jaltaranga followed by Bishnu Pal Chowdhury's Kanakanjali. Chatterjee established himself in the Bollywood industry with The Legend of Bhagat Singh in 2002 by playing Batukeshwar Dutt, and with the daily soap Janmobhumi in 2003. As of 2020, he has appeared in 57 daily soaps and a total of 111 serials in the Bengali language.

He was a member of Indian censor board from 2014 to 2017. [3] [ better source needed ]

Early life

He was a student of South Point School for his high school years, and graduated in bioscience from Asutosh College.[ citation needed ] Before getting his first job in GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals in 1996, he obtained a diploma in marketing and sales management from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. [4]

Family

Bhaswar's great grandfather, the late Bhimchandra Chatterjee, though an electrical engineer, was the architect of the Benares Hindu university (on insistence of the late Madan Mohan Malviya). His Elements of applied electricity books were in circulation a few years back. He was the Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Benaras Hindu University in 1936. [5]

Though he belongs to a family of four generations of engineers, he always wanted to be an actor. Probably his acting genes comes from his mother's side whose uncle Devi Mukherjee was a star actor in the 1940s.[ citation needed ]

Filmography and television

Some of the major daily soaps featuring Chattopadhyay which garnered high "TRPs" [lower-alpha 1] (ratings) are Joy Baba Loknath , [7] Shree Krishna Bhakto Meera , [8] as well as:

OTT

Bhaswar also is being active on ott platforms like Hoichoi ,he did the successful Paap season 1&2 and Six and The Adventures of Gogol for Addatimes. His next ott release is Roktokarobi for Zee5 streaming from 3 February.Bhaswar played Ajit for the super successful Byomkesh O Pinjrapol for Hoichoi.On 20 April his first Hindi Webseries Tooth Pari When love bites started streaming on Netflix.

Films

● Mahanagar theke Doore (2023)

Television

* "Geeta LL.B" (2023-Present)

Philanthropy

Bhaswar Chatterjee runs an NGO, "Aparna Foundation" in his mother's name, which assists the poor and needy. The foundation started collecting used clothes and accessories and distributed them to different parts of Kolkata and its outskirts. Later in 2021 during pandemic, it worked extensively in Kolkata where it fed the pavement dwellers for continuous 22 days along with Puri, Katra and specially Kashmir.The Ngo supplied a month’s ration to ghorawalas and pitthuwalas of Vaishnodevi Temple, to the houseboat caretakers in Srinagar, helped in marriage of a Kashmiri girl, build a house for a poor family. It also helps a number of girl children with studies in Kashmir. [11]

Notes

  1. TRPs are "Television Ratings Points", a viewing audience metric used in India. [6]

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