Jisshu Sengupta

Jisshu Sengupta (born 15 March 1977) is an Indian actor, producer and television presenter, who predominantly works in Bengali films, with a few in Hindi and Telugu languages. Sengupta made his debut in showbiz through a Bengali TV series, Mahaprabhu where he portrayed the role of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. The role overnight catapulted him to stardom. Subsequently, he made his big screen debut with Priyojon (1999), which became a debacle at box office. In 2002, he played Tagore in Sukanta Roy's ambitious venture Chelebela alongside Debashree Roy playing Kadambari Devi.[1] He then appeared in a spate of critically and commercially unsuccessful projects. He made his Bollywood debut with Shyam Benegal's National Award winning film Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero (2004). A turning point came in his career when he collaborated with Rituparno Ghosh for the latter's Abohomaan, which earned him critical acclaim. His subsequent collaborations with Ghosh for films which include Noukadubi and Shob Charitro Kalponik brought him a higher degree of critical and commercial success. Sengupta's collaborations with other directors for films such as Jaatishwar enabled him to become one of the most sought out actors in Bengali cinema.

Jisshu Sengupta
Sengupta at the special screening of Dadagiri
Born (1977-03-15) 15 March 1977
NationalityIndian
OccupationActor
Years active1999 – present
Spouse(s)Nilanjana Sharma
Children2
RelativesAnjana Bhowmick (mother-in-law)
Chandana Sharma (sister-in-law)

Sengupta continued to garner wider attention and further critical acclaim for the role of a contract killer in Rajkahini (2015) and a private detective in Byomkesh O Chiriyakhana (2016). His biggest commercial success came with the action drama film Zulfiqar (2016),[2] as he continued to draw praise for his performances in Sesh Bole Kichu Nei (2014), Jaatishwar (2014) and Arshinagar (2015)

Apart from films, Sengupta is actively involved in anchoring reality shows and award shows, including Filmfare Awards East (2017). In 2011, he made a comeback on television in the fiction category through Aparajito, which he produced for Star Jalsha.

Personal life

Jisshu Sengupta was born on 15 March 1977.[3][4] He is the son of Ujjwal Sengupta, also an actor in Bengali films. He studied at the Julien Day School, where he was fully engrossed in playing cricket. He pursued a degree in economics from Heramba Chandra College, following which he started to work in an advertising agency. Sengupta's wife Nilanjana Sharma, whom he married in 2004, is the elder daughter of Anjana Bhowmick, a Bengali film actress in the Bengali film industry.

He has two daughters, Sara and Zara.[5]

Film career

Initial success and setback
Sengupta during the shooting of Love
Sengupta Sengupta in 2008

Sengupta started his career with a teleserial, titled Mahaprabhu, which aired on Doordarshan. He earned critical acclaim for portraying the younger Chaitanya Mahaprabhu in the series.[6] After his part ended in the series, he made his silver screen debut through Priyojon, directed by Dinen Sengupta, which was a critical and commercial failure.[7] In 2002, he played Tagore in Sukanta Roy's ambitious venture Chelebela alongside Debashree Roy playing Kadambari Devi.[8][9][10] Thereafter, he appeared in a string of critically and commercially unsuccessful ventures, as main lead. He made his debut in Bangla cinema through Moner Majhe Tumi, appearing as a parallel lead, which was the highest-grossing film of Bangladesh in 2003. He went on playing supporting roles in commercial films, namely Abhimanyu, Kurukshetra, Mahaguru, Sangram, Sajani, Guru, Janmadata, Chore Chore Mastuto Bhai and Premi, earning a low degree of success. In 2008, he starred in the romantic-comedy film Love and Bor Asbe Ekhuni.[11][12] He also made his debut in Bollywood through Shyam Benegal's biographical war film Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero.

Collaborations with Rituparno Ghose and success
Sengupta (right) and Raima Sen (left) during the shooting of Noukadubi.

After appearing in critically and commercially unsuccessful films, he met director Rituparno Ghosh, which made Sengupta put more thought into his choice of films. Under Ghosh's tutelage, he gave some of his critically acclaimed performances in films, including The Last Lear, Shob Choritro Kalponik (2008), Chitrangada, and a betrayed husband in Abohoman. Shob Choritro Kalponik also won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali in 2009. The Times of India stated that "Jisshu Sengupta, in the role of a junkie, has delivered one of the finest performances of his career." (in Chitrangada: The Crowning Wish).

Sengupta portrayed the protagonist in Noukadubi, alongside Raima Sen, Riya Sen and Prosenjit Chatterjee in an extended guest appearance.[13][14]

Comeback to Bollywood and recent work
Sengupta (right) with Rani Mukherji (left) at the shooting of Mardaani

Sengupta made a comeback to Bollywood through a cameo appearance in Anurag Basu's directorial Barfi!.[15] Sengupta collaborated with Srijit Mukherji for the latter's musical drama film Jaatishwar co-starring Prosenjit Chatterjee and Swastika Mukherjee.[16] Released on 17 January 2014, the film opened to widespread positive reviews from the critics and was commercially successful. Sengupta played a supporting character in Mardaani, starring Rani Mukherji. In 2015, he portrayed Byomkesh Bakshi in Anjan Dutt's directorial Byomkesh Bakshi.[17] He next collaborated with Srijit Mukherji for the latter's drama film Rajkahini. Both of the films opened to widespread commercial success upon release.[18] His other release in 2015, the musical drama film Arshinagar flopped, though his performance earned critical acclaim.[19] In 2016, he starred in the sequel of Byomkesh Bakshi and Zulfiqar, the former being a commercially and critically successful venture, whereas the latter was only a commercially successful venture, though his performance was critically acclaimed. He was honoured with the Best Actor award for the film Abar Aranye in the 12th Kalakar Awards in 2004 for .[2] He also received a Filmfare Awards East (2017) nomination in Best Actor category for his performance in the former film and won the Star Jalsha Awards for Best Negative Role as well as a nomination for Filmfare Awards East (2017) in the Best Supporting Actor category for the latter. As of now, he acted in Shiboprosad Mukherjee and Nandita Roy's directorial Posto.[20]

He then went on to feature in the film Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi (2019), where he played the role of Gangadhar Rao, the king of Jhansi, alongside Kangana Ranaut. The film was a commercial success.

He next featured in Shakuntala Devi (film), where he played the role of Paritosh Banerji, Shakuntala Devi's husband, with Vidya balan playing the titular role.The movie streamed on Amazon Prime Video in July 2020.

He was then offered a role in Mahesh Bhatt's Sadak 2, where he played the role of Alia Bhatt's father, released in August 2020 in Disney+Hotstar. Sengupta played ACP Abhay Singh in the horror thriller Durgamati, released in December 2020.[21]

Other works

Television
Sengupta during his initial days .

Sengupta is associated with television from the beginning of his career, since he forayed into showbiz with a mythological series based on Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. After almost a decade, he made a comeback to television in the fiction category through his own production, titled Aparajito, which aired on Star Jalsha.[22] Apart from fiction, he has been anchoring many award shows, namely Filmfare Awards East 2017 and non-fiction shows, namely the three sessions of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa: Gaane Gaane Tomar Mone,[23] the Bengali version of Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa[24] and Egiye Bangla.[25] In 2016, he was a judge of Dance Bangla Dance Junior on Zee Bangla.

As of January 2020, Sengupta was hosting two mega-reality television shows for Star Jalsha, Super Singer and Super Singer Junior.[26][27] In October 2020, Sengupta is hosting a new stand-up comedy series "Hasiwala and Company" in Star Jalsha.[28]

Sports

Sengupta has been an avid sportsman, taking part in many sports, most notably cricket, from his childhood days when he used to play the sport in sub-junior games.[29][30] He was the captain for the Bengal Tigers team, representing Cinema of West Bengal in the Celebrity Cricket League.[31] Though the team hasn't won any editions, his cricket skills have been appreciated by many. Bengal Cricket League, which commenced on 26 December 2015 was also the brainchild of Sengupta.[32] Apart from cricket, Sengupta also supported the Kolkata Marathon in the year 2014 along with other celebrities. Over 8,000 participants including elite runners, beginners, fitness enthusiasts, corporate teams and spirited youngsters took part in the ₹10 lakh prize money event held on 8 February 2014.[33] Sengupta also took part in a charity football match for the knee replacement surgery of the Indian football player, Kushumita Das.[34]

In the media

Sengupta was ranked first in the Calcutta Times' Most Desirable Men in its 2015 edition.[35] He gained the 49th position in Times Celebex in July 2015 for the buzz created around his 2015 comedy drama film Piku.[36] He also appeared in Dabboo Ratnani's Bong Calendar 1422, a first of its kind initiative and was presented at the launch event of the calendar.[37] Along with Paoli Dam, he launched the Times Food Guide 2017 at ITC Sonar.[38]

Filmography
Key
Denotes films that have not yet been released
Year Films Roles Language Notes
2000 Shesh Thikana Bengali
Rinmukti
2001 Ektu Choya
2002 Chhelebela [39]
Mr. and Mrs. Iyer Akaash English
2003 Abar Aranye Jishu Bengali
Moner Majhe Tumi Arun
Guru Inspector
2004 Premi Sumit
Annaya Attachar Raja
2005 Swapno Sujoy
2005 Chore Chore Mastuto Bhai Rahul
2005 Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero Sisir Kumar Bose Hindi
2005 Shudhu Bhalobasa Bengali
2006 Tapasya
2006 Hungama Bijoy
2006 Aamra Amit Roy
2007 The Last Lear Goutam English
2008 Love Rahul Bengali
2008 90 Ghanta Rishi
2008 Bor Asbe Ekhuni Abhi
2008 Ek Nadir Galpo: Tale of a River
2008 Premer Kahini
2009 Neel Akasher Chandni Neel
Shob Choritro Kalponik Shekhar
2010 Abohomaan Apratim
2010 Kokhono Biday Bolona
2010 Arekti Premer Golpo Uday / Tushar
2011 Noukadubi Ramesh
Takhan Teish Tamodeep
2012 Chitrangada: The Crowning Wish Partho, the percussionist
Barfi Ranjit Sengupta Hindi
2014 Mardaani Dr. Bikram Roy
Jaatishwar Rohit Mehta Bengali
Sesh Bole Kicchu Nei Andy
2015 Piku Syed Afroz Hindi
Byomkesh Bakshi Byomkesh Bakshi Bengali
Rajkahini Kabir
Arshinagar Tayyab
Nirbaak Amit Sengupta
2016 Kelor Kirti Joy
Zulfiqar Kashinath Kundu
Byomkesh O Chiriyakhana Byomkesh Bakshi
Hemanta Hirak
Aranya Deb Aranya
2017 The Bongs Again Jisshu
Posto Arnab Lahiri
Yeti Obhijaan Jung Bahadur Rana
Byomkesh O Agnibaan Byomkesh Bakshi
Jio Pagla Ananta Sen
2018 Ghare & baire Amit Roy
Amoli Narrator Documentary[40]
Uma Himadri Sen
Ek Je Chhilo Raja Raja Mahendra Kumar Chowdhury
2019 N.T.R: Kathanayakudu L.V. Prasad Telugu Telugu Debut
Manikarnika Gangadhar Rao Newalkar Hindi
Mukhomukhi Bengali
Basu Poribar Raja [41]
Mahalaya Uttam Kumar
Bornoporichoy Dhananjoy[42]
Mardaani 2 Dr. Bikram Roy Hindi
Ghawre Bairey Aaj Sandip Jha Bengali
2020 Aswathama Dr. Manoj Kumar Telugu
Bheeshma Raghavan
Shakuntala Devi Paritosh Banerji Hindi
Sadak 2 Yogesh Desai
Durgamati IAS Officer Hindi
Shironam Bengali
Thalaivi Sobhan Babu Hindi
Tamil
Telugu		 Filming[43]
2021 The Power Ramdas Thakur Hindi

Web-series
Year Series Roles Language Platform Notes
2019 Skyfire Harshvardhan Dharma Hindi Zee5 [44][45]
2019 Typewriter Amit Roy Hindi Netflix [46][47]
2020 Criminal Justice: Behind closed doors Vikram Chandra Hindi Hotstar [48]

See also

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