Ritwik Bhowmik

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Ritwik Bhowmik
Ritwik Bhowmik at the screening of film Maja Ma (cropped).jpg
Bhowmik in 2022
OccupationActor
Years active2017–present
Known for Bandish Bandits
The Whistleblower
Modern Love Mumbai

Ritwik Bhowmik is an Indian actor known for portraying Radhe in Bandish Bandits and Sanket Bhadoria in The Whistleblower. [1] [2]

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Career

Bhowmik started his acting career at age 9, appearing in live stage shows and plays. He worked in 17 plays like Charlie And The Tin Can and also made appearances in 6 short films like Sleep, That’s How It Started, and Gamble of Flesh. Later, he became a part of the Bridging Gaps Entertainment production house. In 2017, he made his acting debut on the digital platform with the TVF web series Office VS Office.

In 2019, he made his film debut in the lead role with Bengali drama film, Dhuusar as Shiladitya Guha. He worked in a Netflix show titled Gabru and also appeared in several videos of FilterCopy Talkies. In 2020, he made his appearance in a music-based web series Bandish Bandits that premiered on Amazon Prime where he played the lead role of a trained classical singer Radhe Rathore opposite Shreya Chaudhary. [3] In 2022, he featured in an Amazon Prime Video anthology series Modern Love Mumbai opposite Masaba Gupta, [4] [5] and later in the same year in Amazon Prime Video's Maja Ma opposite Barkha Singh. [6]

Filmography

Films

YearTitleRoleNotesRef.
2019 Cargo Aggressive Cargo
2019 Dhuusar Shiladitya Guha [7]
2020Life Is RuffFaizaanShort film
Haba GobaKush [8]
2022 Maja Ma Tejas Patel [9]

Web series

YearTitleRoleNotesRef.
2017Office vs. OfficeBaldev
2018FilterCopy Talkies Joy
2020 Bandish Bandits Radhemohan "Radhe" Rathod Jr. [10]
2021 The Whistleblower Dr. Sanket Bhadoria [11] [12]
2022 Modern Love Mumbai ParthSeason 1; Episode 5 [13] [14] [15]
2023 Jehanabad - Of Love & War Abhimanyu Singh [16]
Sweet Kaaram Coffee Radhemohan "Radhe" Rathod Jr.Cameo

Music videos

YearTitleSingerRef.
2020Khidki Papon [17]
2021Qatra Stebin Ben [18]

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryWorkResultRef.
2022 22nd Indian Television Academy Awards Popular Actor - OTT The Whistleblower Nominated [19]

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