Parambrata Chatterjee

Parambrata Chattopadhyay (born 27 June 1980) is an Indian actor and director. Parambrata started his career with Bengali television and films. He has acted as the fictional character Topshe from Feluda under Sandip Ray's direction. His notable works include Bhalo Theko (2003), Baishe Srabon (2011), Sold (2014), Kadambari  (2017), Anukul (2017),  Pari (2018), Ramprasad Ki Tehrvi (2019), Dwitiyo Purush(2020), Bulbbul (2020) and Doctor Bakshi (2023). He made his Hindi debut in Kahaani (2012), starring with Vidya Balan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui.

Personal life
Parambrata was born in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, to parents who worked as film critics. He is the son of Satinath Chatterjee and Sunetra Ghatak, maternal grandson of Ashish Chandra Ghatak and Gita Ghatak, and grandnephew of filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak. Bengali author and activist Mahasweta Devi is Parambrata's aunt. He has often been targeted by fundamentalists for his secularist views. He was previously in a relationship with actress Swastika Mukherjee. He had been in a relationship with Ike Schouten, a doctor from The Netherlands, for nearly a decade. Parambrata studied at Patha Bhavan School, Kolkata.

On 27 November 2023, he married Piya Chakraborty, a singer-social worker in a private ceremony.

Career
Chatterjee has acted in many television series, tele-films, short films and films. His directorial debut feature film is Jiyo Kaka (2011) starring Rituparna Sengupta and Rudranil Ghosh. His second directorial venture was Hawa Bodol (2013). Seven months after the success of Kahaani, he was signed by Jeffrey D. Brown, who won an Academy Award for his debut short film in 1986, for his film Sold.

On 30 May 2011, he became a producer along with colleague, Rudranil Ghosh, by launching their own production house, Workshop Productions Pvt. Ltd, in association with Dipak Raha of Durgandh Group.

Controversy
During one of the episodes of Bengali filmmaker Srijit Mukherjee's reality show, Parambrata Chatterjee inadvertently became part of a controversy courtesy of his co-guest actor Rudranil Ghosh. While chatting with the host, the latter claimed that the two actors were dating the same girl. He didn't stop there and made an insulting and cringe-worthy sexually loaded remark, referring to the girl as a 'playground' where he 'played' in the morning and Parambrata 'played' in the evening. This comment, however, did not go down well with the girl in question, who, in her response, filed a defamation case against the two actors. Nonetheless, many media reports dismissed the incident as a 'poor publicity stunt by the makers.

For the movie Abhijaan Poulami Bose accused director Parambrata of blatant misrepresentations of original events, ignoring important people and aspects of his life and using her son’s accident in the film. Parambrata said the depictions were endorsed by the actor himself.