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Mithun Chakraborty
Indian actor (born )
Not to be confused with Mithu Chakrabarty.
Mithun Chakraborty (born Gouranga Chakraborty; 16 June ) is an Indian actor, film producer, screenwriter, entrepreneur and politician who predominantly works in Hindi and Bengali cinema. In a career spanning over five decades, he has done films, mostly in Hindi and Bengali languages, and a few in Odia, Telugu, Kannada, Punjabi and Tamil.
He is a former Rajya SabhaMember of Parliament.[5][6] He is the recipient of three National Film Awards and Four Filmfare Awards. In January , Chakraborty was awarded Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian honour by the Government of India.[7][8] He was also awarded India's highest accolade in the field of cinema, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year , whose announcement came from the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in September [9]
Chakraborty made his acting debut with the art house drama Mrigayaa (), directed by Mrinal Sen, for which he won his first National Film Award for Best Actor.[10] Chakraborty gained greater fame with the film Disco Dancer, which was a major box office success in India and the Soviet Union.[11] Besides Disco Dancer, Chakraborty also gained recognition for many other performances as both a lead and character artist.[12][13][14][15] Chakraborty's performance in Agneepath won him the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor in [16]
Chakraborty owns the Monarch Group, which has interests in the hospitality and educational sectors.[17][18] He also started the production house Paparatzy Productions.[19] In , he, along with Dilip Kumar and Sunil Dutt, set up a trust to help actors in need of assistance called Cine & T.V Artistes Association (CINTAA).[20] He was also the Chairperson of Film Studios Setting & Allied Mazdoor Union, which protects the welfare of cinema workers and resolves their demands and problems.[21][22][23][24][25] The television showDance India Dance, where Chakraborty was the Grand Master, also entered in the Limca Book of Records and the Guinness World Records.[26] Chakraborty played a crucial mediating role between Pranab Mukherjee of the Indian National Congress and Mamata Banerjee, winning Mukherjee the support of Banerjee's party, the All India Trinamool Congress, in the Indian presidential election.[27] He joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on 7 March , ahead of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly election.[4]
Early life and education
Mithun Chakraborty was born on 16 June into a Bengali Hindu family in Calcutta (now Kolkata), West Bengal, India to Basanta Kumar Chakraborty and Shanti Rani Chakraborty.[3][2][28] He studied at Oriental Seminary and then earned his degree[3] in Chemistry from Scottish Church College in Kolkata.
After that, he attended and graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune.[10] He was a Naxalite before entering films, but tragedy struck his family when his only brother was electrocuted and killed in a freak accident.[10][27] He returned to his family and left the Naxalite fold, even though this posed a grave risk to his own life.[29] During his days as a Naxalite, he became friends with Ravi Ranjan, a popular Naxal figure, known to his friends as "Bhaa" (the ultimate saviour).
Bhaa was known for his manipulative skills and oratory abilities.[30]
Film career
Early career (–)
Chakraborty made his Hindi film debut in with Mrinal Sen's art-house film Mrigayaa, for which he won the National Film Award for Best Actor.[31] That same year, he played a brief role in Dulal Guha's hit thrillerDo Anjaane which had Amitabh Bachchan, Rekha and Prem Chopra in the lead.[32][33]
In , Chakraborty made his debut in Bengali cinema with Arabinda Mukhopadhyay's romantic blockbuster Nadi Theke Sagare.[34][35] He also co-starred alongside Rameshwari in Mera Rakshak.[36] A remake of R.
Thyagarajan's own directional venture Aattukara Alamelu (), it performed well commercially.[37] In , Chakraborty delivered another hit with Ravikant Nagaich's spy thrillerSurakksha.[38] This was followed by a string of successful Hindi films, such as Taraana (), Patita (), Unees-Bees (), Hum Paanch () and Hum Se Badkar Kaun () and the Bengali film Kalankini Kankabati ().[38][39][40]
Stardom (–)
In , Chakraborty had a string of successes with Shaukeen, Ashanti, Taqdeer Ka Badshah and Swami Dada.[41] He shot to superstardom in the same year with B.
Subhash's dance filmDisco Dancer.[42]Disco Dancer proved to be successful domestically and an All Time Blockbuster in overseas markets.[43] It also became the first Indian film to do a business of ₹1 billion (US$12million).[44][45] Its soundtrack composed by Bappi Lahiri was a huge chartbuster and played a big role in the box office success of the film, especially in countries like Soviet Union and China.[46][47] The same year, he established himself in Bengali cinema as well with Gautam Mukherjee's musical blockbusterTroyee.[48] In , he played lead roles in T.
Rama Rao and Deepak Bahry's ventures - Mujhe Insaaf Chahiye and Hum Se Hai Zamana, respectively and Basu Chatterjee's critically acclaimed light-hearted romance Pasand Apni Apni.[49][50] The following year, he appeared alongside Shashi Kapoor, Moushmi Chatterjee and Ranjeeta in the family drama film Ghar Ek Mandir.[51] At release, it was thrashed by critics, but went on to become profitable at the box office.[52] The huge box office success of Ghar Ek Mandir was followed by two successes in Jagir and Kasam Paida Karne Wale Ki alongside a decent runner Baazi to go with the major grossers.[52]
Chakraborty gained more recognition in with Vijay Sadanah's romantic dramaPyar Jhukta Nahin, acting opposite Padmini Kolhapure.[53] The film opened to excellent audience response and went on to become a massive blockbuster.[54] Its soundtrack composed by Laxmikant–Pyarelal dominated the musical charts and was the tenth best-selling Hindi film album of the s.[55] He followed it with a superhit in J.
P. Dutta's action drama Ghulami co-starring Dharmendra, Naseeruddin Shah, Reena Roy, Smita Patil and Anita Raj.[56][54] His other major commercial success that year was another of B. Subhash's directional venture Aandhi-Toofan.[54] Chakraborty's dream run continued in with the success of K.
Bapayya's family drama film Swarag Se Sunder, which also had Jeetendra, Jaya Prada and Kolhapure in the lead.[57][58] That same year, he found success in Umesh Mehra's actioner Jaal, followed by two more successful films, Dilwaala and Muddat.[59] Apart from commercial success, he received acclaim for his performance in Basu Chatterjee's Sheesha, which was the first Hindi film centred around sexual harassment at workplace.[60] The following year, he starred in hits, including Dance Dance, Parivaar and Watan Ke Rakhwale alongside moderately profitable films, Hawalaat and Hiraasat.[61] In , Chakraborty reunited with K.
Bapayya for Pyar Ka Mandir, co-starring Madhavi, Nirupa Roy, Sachin Pilgaonkar, Raj Kiran and Shoma Anand.[62] The film performed very well at the box office and was declared a superhit by trade pundits.[63] He then appeared alongside Sridevi and Moushmi Chatterjee in the action drama film Waqt Ki Awaz, which too went on to become a hit, followed by moderate successes in Charnon Ki Saugandh and Jeete Hain Shaan Se.[63] also proved to be a big one for Chakraborty with four of his films emerging commercial successes, which were - Daata, Prem Pratigyaa, Mujrim and Aakhri Ghulam.[64]
Chakraborty began the new decade with average fares, such as Pati Patni Aur Tawaif and Humse Na Takrana, while his most notable release of was Mukul Anand's action crime film Agneepath alongside Amitabh Bachchan, which although a commercial failure, received highly positive response from critics and won him Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor.[65][66] For next two years, his successful films included Pyar Ka Devta (), Swarg Yahan Narak Yahan (), Dil Aashna Hai () and Ghar Jamai ().[67]
Chakraborty's career as a matinee idol faded in the mids as he took a break from mainstream Hindi cinema and started working in low-budget productions, most of which lacked success due to their poor quality.[68] Beginning from , he starred in many such films, the majority of which performed miserably at the box office, with a few exceptions like Cheetah (), Jallaad () and Ravan Raaj: A True Story (), which also proved to be his final successful film as a lead actor.[69][70][71]
Career fluctuations and return to prominence (–present)
Post-stardom, Chakraborty continued to star in substandard productions which failed to propel his career forward.[72][73] He appeared in hundreds of such films produced under his home banner Mithun's Dream Factory.[74][75][76] He was unable to accept the universally acclaimed Tamil film Iruvar () as his character had to crop his hair, which would have affected his other 15 films at that time.[77] By this time, Chakraborty held the record for appearing in the most Hindi films as a hero.[27] During this phase, he saw moderate successes in Shapath () and Chandaal () and won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing Ramakrishna Paramahansa in G.V.
Iyer's biographical dramaSwami Vivekananda ().[78][79][80]
With his Bollywood career taking a backseat, Chakraborty began to focus on Bengali films in the early s. From to , he appeared in highly acclaimed films like Nepaldev Bhattacharjee's Chaka (), Rituparno Ghosh's Titli (), Prasanta Bal's Ferari Fauj () and Narayan Rao's Santrash ().[81]
He returned to mainstream Hindi films in with the highly anticipated films Elaan and Lucky: No Time for Love, but contrary to expectations, both the films proved to be critical and commercial duds and failed to re-establish him.[82][83][84] He finally made a solid comeback in with Mani Ratnam's Guru.[85]Guru received highly positive response from critics and proved to be a commercial success at the box office.[86][87] Chakraborty's performance of an honest editor met with immense acclaim and he received a nomination in the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor category.[88] The same year, he also did a guest appearance in the song "Deewangi Deewangi" from Farah Khan's reincarnation dramaOm Shanti Om.[89]
After another series of flops, he appeared in Rohit Shetty's multi-starrer comedyGolmaal 3 in [90] It did a business of ₹ billion (US$20million) and was declared a Blockbuster by Box Office India.[91] The huge success of Golmaal 3 was followed by two more major hits in with Housefull 2, OMG – Oh My God!, as well as an average hit with Khiladi .[92][93] Chakraborty had two full-fledged releases in - Enemmy and the much anticipated Boss, both of which were critical and commercial failures.[94][95][96][97] He then played a supporting role in the Salman Khanaction comedy film Kick ().[98] The film took an initial of ₹ million and collected ₹ billion (US$45million) by the end of its run, emerging a blockbuster at the box office.[99]
In , he made his Telugu and Tamil cinema debut with Gopala Gopala and Yagavarayinum Naa Kaakka respectively.
While Gopala Gopala did well at the box office, the latter proved to be unsuccessful.[] That same year, he appeared in Vibhu Puri's critically acclaimed historical drama Hawaizaada alongside Ayushmann Khurrana and Pallavi Sharda.[] He made his Kannada film debut with the successful action thriller The Villain in []
In , Chakraborty played an important role in Vivek Agnihotri's political thrillerThe Tashkent Files.[] It received negative reviews from critics, but the audience reception was positive and as a result, it ran in cinemas for more than days, eventually emerging as a sleeper hit at the box office.[][] After a year's gap, Chakraborty appeared in Ram Gopal Varma's horror thriller12 'O' Clock.[] In , he starred in two notable box office successes, one in Hindi and one in Bengali.
The first one was Agnihotri's The Kashmir Files based on the Exodus of Kashmiri Hindus.[] Despite receiving polarizing response from reviewers, it grossed ₹ billion (US$39million) worldwide and was declared a major blockbuster by the end of its run.[][] He received another nomination in the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor category for his performance of a retired IAS officer in The Kashmir Files.[] The next was Avijit Sen's family drama Projapoti alongside Dev.[] This, too, emerged as a blockbuster at the box office.[] He made his digital debut in with Prime Video's web show Bestseller.[] In , he played the title role in Suman Ghosh's hit Bengali film Kabuliwala.[] In , he played the title role in Bengali film Shastri[] another release in was successful film Bengali film Shontaan.[].
Television appearances
After the success of the Bengali competitive dance reality show Dance Bangla Dance, Chakraborty developed the concept of Dance India Dance. This Indian dance competition show airs on Zee TV in India, is produced by UTV Software Communications, and has become India's largest dance-based reality show.
The contestants get a chance to perform before a panel of judges composed of Terrence Lewis, Remo D'Souza and Geeta Kapoor. The selection of the season's Top 18 live show finalists is overseen by head judge Chakraborty. The show has won several television awards for most popular dance reality show.[] Chakraborty was also the Grand Master of Dance India Dance Li'l Masters, as well as the host of the reality show Dadagiri Unlimited on Zee Bangla channel.
He replaced Sourav Ganguly as the host of this show. Chakraborty hosted the Bengali version of Bigg Boss and Rannaghore Rockstar on ETV Bangla.[] He made his acting debut on TV with the comedy show The Drama Company.[][]
In , Chakraborty appeared as co-judge in the Star Jalsha's Dance Dance Junior alongside Tollywood actors Soham Chakraborty and Srabanti Chatterjee.[][][]
He appeared as a co-judge with Karan Johar and Parineeti Chopra on the reality show Hunarbaaz: Desh Ki Shaan, which premiered on Colors TV in January []
In the year he returned to the set of Dance Bangla Dance on Zee Bangla as Mahaguru.[][][][][]
Political career
Chakraborty joined as a Member of Parliament[] after he was nominated for the Rajya SabhaMember of Parliament elections by the Chief Minister of West BengalMamata Banerjee for her All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) in the West Bengal Rajya Sabha Assembly Polls which were held on 7 February [] On 26 December , he resigned as a Rajya Sabha MP.[] Chakraborty joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on 7 March , ahead of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Kailash Vijayvargiya.[][4]
Brand ambassador
Chakraborty was the ambassador of Panasonicelectronics for India back in the late s.[][] He was the face of GoDaddy, an internet domain registrar and web-hosting company.[]
He was also the face of Channel 10, a unit of Bengal Media Pvt.
Ltd. owned by Saradha Media Group,[] and he later said "Saradha didn't pay my dues" as its branch Saradha Chit Fund collapsed.[] Chakraborty was also the face of Manappuram Gold Loan for West Bengal state.[]
Personal life
He first married actress Helena Luke in , but after four months of marriage the couple separated and filed for a divorce.[] He then married actress Yogeeta Bali in []
Chakraborty and Yogeeta have four children: Mimoh, Ushmey Chakraborty, Namashi Chakraborty, and an adopted daughter Dishani Chakraborty.[] In the s, he was romantically linked to the actress Sridevi, whom he met on the sets of Jaag Utha Insan, and it was rumoured that the two were married.
However, when Chakraborty refused to leave his wife Yogeeta Bali, Sridevi ended the romance.[][]
On 10 February , Chakraborty was hospitalized after complaining of chest pain, and it was determined that he had suffered a stroke.[] He was discharged on 12 February.[]
Filmography
Main article: Mithun Chakraborty filmography
Awards and honours
Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Mithun Chakraborty
Legacy
Chakraborty is regarded as one of the most popular and successful actors of Indian cinema.[] Known for his work in both commercial and art-house films, he holds the record of being the only actor to win National Award for Best Actor for his debut film.[] He is also considered one of the best "dancing-heroes" in Bollywood, and is notable for his "Disco and Desi" fusion-style dancing that is popular among the masses.[]
For 50 years Raj Kapoor was the only Indian film icon in Russia after his films like Awaara and Shree made a significant impact in the country, but after the success of Disco Dancer, Mithun joined him as "a big craze" all over the nation.[]
One of the highest paid actors from the s to the early s, Chakraborty appeared in Box Office India's "Top Actors" list four times from to []
In , he placed in Outlook India's "75 Best Bollywood Actors" list.[]
In popular culture
Books on Mithun Chakraborty
Book | Language | Author | Notes |
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Amar Nayikara | Bengali | Sumit Dey | Mithun Chakraborty the cinema actor and his heroines. |
Ananya Mithun | Suman Gupta | Biography of Mithun Chakraborty | |
Mithuner Katha | Jayanta Ghosh | ||
Cinemay Naamte Hole | Mithun Chakraborty | Mithun Chakraborty answering questions to his fans | |
Marbo Ekhane Lash Porbe Shoshane | Ashishtaru Mukhaphadya | Life story of Mithun Chakraborty | |
Arun Kumar Rav | Hindi / Bhojpuri | Himself | Mithun Chakraborty answering questions of his fans |
Leave Disco Dancer Alone | English | Sudha Rajagopalan | Book about Mithun Chakraborty and soviet union cinema. |
Mithun Chakraborty: The Dada of Bollywood | Ram Kamal Mukherjee | Biographical book about Mithun Chakraborty | |
Tribute To Mithun Chakraborty | Sara Johnson | A tribute to Mithun Chakraborty. The book is independently published by American writer Sara Johnson. |
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