West Bengal Film Journalists' Association Award for Best Actor

WBFJA for Best Actor
Awarded for	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Country	India
Presented by	West Bengal Film Journalists' Association
Final award	2025
Most Recent Winner	Chandan Sen for Manikbabur Megh

The West Bengal Film Journalists' Association Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role is given yearly by the WBFJA as a part of its annual West Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards for Bengali films, to recognize the best actor of the previous year.

Superlatives

Category	Name	Superlative
Most Awards	Prosenjit Chatterjee	3 awards
Most Nominations	Jisshu Sengupta, Ritwick Chakraborty, Parambrata Chatterjee	4 nominations
Most Nominations without a Win	Anirban Bhattacharya, Arjun Chakraborty	2 Nominations

List of winners

Winners

Year	Winner	Film
2017	Paran Bandopadhyay	Cinemawala
	Prosenjit Chatterjee	Khawto
2018	Soumitra Chatterjee	Mayurakshi
	Prosenjit Chatterjee
2019	Jisshu Sengupta	Ek Je Chhilo Raja
2020	Riddhi Sen	Nagarkirtan
2021	Parambrata Chatterjee	Dwitiyo Purush
	Saswata Chatterjee	Chobiyal
2022	Ritwick Chakraborty	Binisutoy
	Paran Bandopadhyay	Tonic
2023	Dev	Projapoti
	Ritwick Chakraborty	Ananta: The Eternal
2024	Prosenjit Chatterjee	Shesh Pata
2025	Chandan Sen	Manikbabur Megh

Nominations

• 2017 Paran Bandopadhyay – Cinemawala as Pranabendu Das and Prosenjit Chatterjee – Khawto as Nirbed Lahiri/Dhrubo(tie) ^{[1] [2]}
  • Anjan Dutt – Shaheb Bibi Golaam as Jimmy
  • Debshankar Haldar – Maya Mridango as Jhakshu Ustad
  • Jisshu Sengupta – Byomkesh O Chiriyakhana as Byomkesh Bakshi
• 2018 Soumitra Chatterjee – Mayurakshi as Sushovan and Prosenjit Chatterjee – Mayurakshi as Aryanil(tie) ^{[3] [4]}
  • Ritwick Chakraborty – Maacher Jhol as Dev D aka Devdatto
  • Anirban Bhattacharya – Dhananjay as Dhananjoy Chatterjee
  • Jisshu Sengupta – Posto as Arnab Lahiri
  • Parambrata Chatterjee – Samantaral as Sujan
• 2019 Jisshu Sengupta – Ek Je Chhilo Raja as Raja Mahendra Kumar Chowdhury ^{[5] [6]}
  • Jisshu Sengupta – Ghare & Baire as Amit
  • Saswata Chatterjee – Ray as Director
  • Prosenjit Chatterjee – Drishtikone as Jion Mitra
  • Adil Hussain – Maati as Jamil
• 2020 Riddhi Sen – Nagarkirtan as Puti ^[7]
  • Ritwick Chakraborty – Nagarkirtan as Madhu
  • Rudranil Ghosh – Vinci Da as Vinci Da
  • Prosenjit Chatterjee – Drishtikone as Jion Mitra
  • Shiboprosad Mukherjee – Konthho as RJ Arjun Mallik
  • Kaushik Ganguly – Kedara as Narasingha
• 2021 Parambrata Chatterjee for Dwitiyo Purush as Abhijit Pakrashi/Khoka and Saswata Chatterjee for Chobiyal as Habol ^[8]
  • Anirban Bhattacharya - Dracula Sir as Amal / Raktim
  • Jeet - Asur as Kigan Mandi
• 2022 Ritwik Chakraborty - Binisutoy as Kajal Sarkar and Paran Bandopadhyay - Tonic as Jaladhar Sen
  • Mosharraf Karim - Dictionary
  • Saswata Chatterjee - Tokhon Kuasa Chilo
  • Arjun Chakrabarty - Avijatrik as Apu

• 2023 Dev – Projapoti as Joy Chakraborty and Ritwick Chakraborty – Ananta: The Eternal as Mr. Shuvo ^[9]
  • Arjun Chakraborty – X=Prem as Arnab
  • Bratya Basu – Jhora Palok as Jibanananda Das
  • Parambrata Chatterjee – Habji Gabji as Aditya Basu
  • Riddhi Sen – Bismillah as Bismillah a.k.a. Bishu

• 2024 Prosenjit Chatterjee – Shesh Pata as Balmiki Sengupta ^[10]
  • Abir Chatterjee – Maayakumari as Kanan Kumar and Ahir Chatterjee
  • Anjan Dutt – Palan
  • Parambrata Chatterjee – Shibpur as Sultan Ahmed

• 2025 Chandan Sen – Manikbabur Megh as Manik Babu
  • Abir Chatterjee – Shri Swapankumarer Badami Hyenar Kobole as Dipak Chatterjee
  • Anjan Dutt – Chaalchitra Ekhon as Kunal Sen
  • Dev – Tekka as Iqlakh Alam
  • Tota Roy Chowdhury – Chaalchitro: The Frame Fatale as Kanishka Chatterjee

See also

• Film portal
• India portal

• West Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards
• Cinema of India

References

1. "WBFJA 2017 Nominations".
2. "WBFJA 2017 Winners".
3. "WBFJA 2018 Nominations".
4. "WBFJA 2018 Winners".
5. "WBFJA 2019 Nominations".
6. "WBFJA 2019 Winners".
7. "4th WBFJA Awards".
8. "WBJFA award function".
9. "WBFJA Awards 2023: বাংলার সাংবাদিকদের বিচারে সেরা অভিনেতা দেব, জনপ্রিয় অভিনেতা মিঠুন, গায়ক অরিজিৎ!".
10. "শেষ পাতা-র বাজিমাত! সিনেমার সমাবর্তনে পুরস্কার পেল দশম অবতার, সেরা অভিনেতা দেব না প্রসেনজিৎ".