Soumyajit Majumdar

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Soumyajit Majumdar
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Kolkata
Occupation(s)Actor, Director, Producer

Soumyajit Majumdar is an Indian actor, director and producer. [1] He is mostly known for his roles in Aashiqui 2 (2013), Har Har Byomkesh (2015), Gangster (2016), Kiriti Roy (2016), Te3n (2016) and Ghost of the Golden Groves (2019). [2] He has also produced Bengali language film Homecoming (2022). [3] [4] [5]

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Early life and education

He was born in Kolkata. He completed his education in mass communication and videography from St. Xaviers College Kolkata. [6] [7]

Career

He started his career by playing a cameo in a Bengali film Gandu in 2010. [8] Majumdar made an entry into the Hindi film industry by playing a role in Mohit Suri's Aashiqui 2 in 2013, featuring Aditya Roy Kapur and Shraddha Kapoor. [9] In 2015, he was roped in for Har Har Byomkesh , a Bengali mystery thriller by Arindam Sil. [10] In 2016, he featured in a Hindi film Te3n by Ribhu Dasgupta, starring Amitabh Bachchan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Vidya Balan. [11] In the same year, he played a role in Birsa Dasgupta's Gangster and Aniket Chattopadhyay's Kiriti Roy. In 2019, he starred in Ghost of the Golden Groves movie, which also premiered at the London Indian Film Festival. [12] [13]

In 2022, he directed and produced his first Bengali film Homecoming, [14] featuring Sayani Gupta, Hussain Dalal and Plabita Borthakur. [15] [16] [17] It was released on SonyLiv on 18 February 2022. [18] [19] [20] It won the award for Best Film at the 19th annual South Asian International Film Festival, New York and Best Asian Film at Tokyo Film Awards. [21] It was also the opening film at the Gange Sur Seine Film Festival held from 5–8 October 2023. [22] Soumyajit won the best director award for Homecoming at the Gange Sur Seine Film Festival in Paris. [23] In 2023, he started making a biopic on iconic Bengali Baul artist Parvathy Baul. [24]

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryResultRef.(s)
2023Gange Sur Seine Film FestivalBest DirectorWon [25]

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