Top 10 Best Movies Of Dhritiman Chatterjee

 

Dhritiman Chatterjee began his acting career in 1970 in Satyajit Ray's Pratidwandi. Most of his acting work has been in India's "parallel", or independent, cinema with filmmakers such as Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen and Aparna Sen. He has also worked in English films with well-known filmmakers such as Deepa Mehta and Jane Campion.

Here are top 10 Best movies of Dhritiman Chatterjee

Pratidwandi (1970)

Cast

Dhritiman Chatterjee as Siddhartha
Joysree Roy as Keya
Krishna Bose
Indira Devi
Kalyan Chowdhury
Debraj Roy
Sefali
Biplab Chatterjee

Pratidwandi is a 1970 Indian Bengali drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray based on the novel by Sunil Gangopadhyay. Pratidwandi tells the story of Siddharta, an educated middle-class man caught up in the turmoil of social unrest. Corruption and unemployment are rampant, and Siddhartha cannot align himself with either his revolutionary activist brother or his career-oriented sister.

Padatik (1973)

Directed by: Mrinal Sen
Starring: Dhritiman Chatterjee, Simi Garewal, Bijon Bhattacharya, Pravash Sarkar
Music by: Ananda Shankar

Story of the film

Dhritiman Chatterjee plays a young political activist who escapes a prison van and takes shelter in a posh apartment owned by a sensitive young woman (Simi Garewal). In this film we see Kolkata as in the early 1970s, a place filled with chaos and history. All of it lurches into a dark future portrayed in scattered fragments. This film finds Mrinal Sen taking up salient issues amid a period of political turmoil. 

36 Chowringhee Lane (1981)

Directed by: Aparna Sen
Written by: Aparna Sen
Produced by: Shashi Kapoor

Cast

Jennifer Kendal as Violet Stoneham, the Anglo-Indian school teacher

Debashree Roy as Nandita Roy, Violet's former student

Dhritiman Chatterjee as Samaresh, Nandita's boyfriend

Geoffrey Kendal as Eddie Stoneham

Soni Razdan as Rosemary, Violet's niece

Sanjana Kapoor as young Violet

Karan Kapoor as Davie

Ruma Guha Thakurta as Nandita's mother

Akaler Shandhaney (1982)

Directed by: Mrinal Sen

Starring Dhritiman Chatterjee

Smita Patil

Gita Sen

Rajen Tarafdar

Sreela Mazumder

Radhamohan Bhattachariya

Jayanta Chowdhury

Dipankar De

Jochhan Dastidar

Story of the film

In September 1980, a film crew comes to a village to make a film about a famine, which killed five million Bangalis in 1943. It was a man made famine, a side-product of the war, and the film crew will create the tragedy of those millions who died of starvation. The film documents the convivial life among the film crew and the hazards, problems and tension of film making on location. The actors live a double life, and the villagers, both simple and not-so-simple, flock to watch their work with wonder and suspicion. But as the film progresses, the recreated past begins to confront the present. The uneasy coexistence of 1943 and 1980 reveals bizarre connection, involving a village woman whose visions add a further dimension of time—that of future. A disturbing situation, indeed, for the "famine-seekers"! 

Dhritiman Chatterjee portrayed the role of director in this film

Ganashatru (1989)

Directed by Satyajit Ray. It is an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's 1882 play An Enemy of the People

Starring Soumitra Chatterjee
Ruma Guha Thakurta
Mamata Shankar
Dhritiman Chatterjee
Bhishma Guhathakurta
Deepankar De
Subhendu Chatterjee
Manoj Mitra

 Dhritiman Chatterjee plays the role of a corrupt politician in this film. He is chairman of the municipality. Soumitra Chatterjee is an honest doctor. Dhritiman is Soumitra's brother in this film.

Agantuk (1991)

Cast

 

Utpal Dutt

Dipankar Dey

Mamata Shankar

Bikram Bhattacharya

Rabi Ghosh

Dhritiman Chatterjee

Subrata Chatterjee

Story of the film

Utpal Dutt in Agantuk playing the mysterious stranger who arrives to visit his niece after 35 long years. Though Anila and her husband remain skeptical about his identity their young son Satyaki immediately takes to the enigmatic Manmohan Mitra.

This is mainly Utpal Dutt film but Dhritiman Chatterjee is also in a powerful character in this film.

Shunyo Awnko (2013)

Script, Cinematography, Music & Direction By Goutam Ghose

Cast Priyanshu Chatterjee, Konkona Sen Sharma, Soumitra Chatterjee, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Barun Chanda, Lalita Chatterjee, Priyanka Bose, Locket Chatterjee, Sujan Mukherjee, Ranadeep Bose, Suman Mukhopadhyay and others.

Story of the film 

We find six principal characters who every now and then recall their past memories, are bound by daily compulsions, yet have dreams of varying colours and shades. At the same time issues of insurgency, infiltration and proxy wars co-exist in tandem. It is a journey from void to eternity.

Ek Phaali Rodh (2014)

Cast

Dhritiman Chatterjee as Dr. Somshankar Roy
Ritwick Chakraborty as Swagato
Aparajita Ghosh Das as Anwesha
Jisshu Sengupta as Joy
Tota Roychowdhury as Pratim
Mahua Halder as Rupa
Arunima Ghosh as Mimi
Barun Chanda as Rajat Gupta

Story of the film

Dr. Somshankar Roy, a social scientist, engages Swagato and Anwesha to create 'mock' crisis on the streets. The aim was to observe reactions of people to different forms of crisis happening around them, and to analyse and derive conclusions about human behaviour from them. But all theories and deductions go astray when they come face to face with a real crisis in their own lives and cannot decipher whether the crisis is MOCK or REAL.

Chitrokar (2017)

The movie is directed by Shaibal Mitra and featured Arpita Chatterjee and Dhritiman Chatterjee as lead characters.

Story of the film

 A blind painter, portrayed with style and sincerity by Dhritiman Chatterjee, is tasked with a well-paying job to create a large mural for a city restaurant. In this, he is assisted by Tithi, portrayed by Arpita Chatterjee, a struggling young artist whose art exhibition has just flopped. Bijan is hostile towards Tithi at first, not trusting her motives, capabilities or age. But slowly, as he warms up to her, he realises she is perfect for the job.

The story is inspired by the lives of Indian painter Binod Bihari Mukherjee and American painter Mark Rothko.

Chilekotha (2017)

Directed by - Premangshu Roy

Music - Dishari Chakraborty

Cast - Dhritiman Chatterjee, Ritwick Chakraborty, Bratya Basu.

Story of the film

This movie is a documentation of the nostalgia of Bengalis. 

film revolves around successful NRI Animesh Chatterjee (Dhritiman Chattopadhyay) who returns to his roots in Kolkata, after superannuation. With his homecoming, a deluge of memories, overpower him. The film delves into flashbacks and old Animesh is visited by his doppelganger, Animesh (Ritwick Chakraborty) in his youth.

 Phulu kaka plays a vital role in Animesh’s life and his outlook on society as he learns to question existential dilemma. Bratya Basu is Phulu Kaka in this film.