Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
Unknown
Place of Birth
Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India [now India]
Shekhar Chattopadhyay
Biography
Shekhar Chatterjee (1924–1990) was an Indian actor and film director. Chatterjee was born in Kolkata in 1924. He began his career in the Bengali theatre in the 1950s. He was associated with several leftist theatre groups, including the Communist Party's Indian People's Theatre Association, Utpal Dutt's Little Theatre Group, and Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop, as well as his own group, Theatre Unit, which he formed in 1958. As a stage actor, he was well known for his Shakespearean roles and for playing Shardul Singh in Dutt's 1965 play Kallol. His directorial work focused on works by German-language playwrights Bertold Brecht, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Peter Handke, and Franz Xaver Kroetz. Chatterjee's Brecht productions were rarely adapted to a local setting, and while critics unanimously praised this approach as "authentic", his colleague Dutt attacked it for failing to communicate Brecht's political symbolism to an Indian audience.
Filmography (29)
Vasundhara
1986
Tagari
1985
Maa
1984
Gandhi
1982
The Sage from the Sea
1978
Pratima
1977
The Royal Hunt
1977Barbadhu
1977
Nishimrigaya
1975Sangsar Simantey
1975
Sangini
1974
Rodon Bhara Basanta
1974
Raktatilak
1974
Chorus
1974
