Kalyan Chatterjee

Acting

Kalyan Chatterjee

Born 1944-07-31

Kalyan Chatterjee (Bengali: কল্যাণ চ্যাটার্জী; 31 July 1944 – 7 December 2025) was an Indian actor recognized for his work in Bengali cinema, and considered to be one of the most famous character actors of Bengali Cinema. Chatterjee's student film '37 Down Manmad Passenger' was released in 1967. He acted in Satyajit Ray's ‘Pratidwandi', Tapan Sinha's ‘Apanjan', ‘Sagina Mahato', ‘Sabuj Dwiper Raja', ‘Safed Hati', MS Sathyu's ‘Kahan Kahan Se Guzar Gaye', Arabinda Mukhopadhyay ‘Dhonni Meye', Basu Chatterjee's ‘Byomkesh Bakshi', Goutam Ghose's ‘Paar' and ‘Antarjali Jatra', Sujoy Ghosh's ‘Kahaani' and Sanjiban Nath's ‘The Waltz'.

Acting credits

An Irrelevant Dialogue poster
NR

An octogenarian couple, Shankar & Ila Bagchi, lives a life of isolation confined in one room of a big, empty and time-worn house in a city. Apprehensive of their future and unwilling to suffer a deteriorated life, they write to the President of India, pleading guilty of what they believe to be a crime they have committed and asking for mercy. While awaiting the consequences, they try out desperate measures to fulfil their long-cherished wish. Inspired from a true story, this film explores the life of the couple, through contemplative aesthetics, who exhausted by their present, pursue a shared belief that challenges the status quo.

An Irrelevant Dialogue

2019

Kahaani poster
7.2

Pregnant and alone in the city of Kolkata, a woman begins a relentless search for her missing husband, only to find that nothing is what it seems.

Kahaani

2012

Din Jai poster
NR

Sita and Manoram fall in love and do everything to fight for it. Bur differences begin to crack their marriage when Manoram introduces Sita to his friend Manash. Will they work on themselves to stay together, or will their relationship fall apart?

Din Jai

1983

Epitaph poster
NR

A solitary young woman living with her dog becomes the target of neighbourhood slander. Her sudden suicide—and the earlier discovery of a dead foetus—fuels harsher speculation. Two neighbouring families, a young couple and an elderly father with his bedridden daughter, confront their own fears while discussing her fate. Her ambiguous life and death expose a society quick to judge independent women yet capable of rare empathy.

Epitaph

2026

The Adversary poster
7.3

Siddhartho Chowdhury, a brilliant young medical student, is forced to leave his studies after his father's sudden demise. He is forced to navigate the high unemployment rate and the communist socio-political climate of 1960s Calcutta in search of a job.

The Adversary

1970

The Waiting City poster
5.9

An outwardly happy Australian couple journey to Calcutta to collect their adopted baby, but on arrival find that the arrangements have yet to be finalized. Soon, the intoxicating mystic power of the Indian city pulls them in separate and unexpected directions, and the vulnerability of their marriage begins to reveal itself.

The Waiting City

2010

Ek Je Chhilo Desh poster
NR

A scientist accidentally finds a drug that can reveal an individual's past. However, when a few politicians fear their exposure, they plot to kill him.

Ek Je Chhilo Desh

1977

Sagina poster
8.0

Sagina a factory laborer,an aggressive, honest and lovable character who was the first to fight against the tyranny of the British bosses in the Tea gardens of North-Eastern India.

Sagina

1974

The Middleman poster
7.1

A bright and idealistic young graduate steels himself for a dog-eat-dog world, only to flounder in a job market packed with thousands of other hopefuls. When he eventually decides to start his own business as a middle-man, he discovers that the world of business does not live up to his lofty ideals.

The Middleman

1976

Apon Par poster
8.0

Pratap Chandra is an extremely wealthy businessman. While he is averse to poverty, he trusts his servant Gora with his life. His only daughter Buli, falls in love with Alok, a poor journalist. Unable to convince her father for the marriage, Buli leaves home. Will Gora now be able to reconcile the father-daughter?

Apon Par

1992

Baishe Srabon poster
7.3

A serial killer terrorises the city of Kolkata and leaves behind verses of Bengali poetry. The police seek the help of a retired officer to unravel the case and find the perpetrator.

Baishe Srabon

2011

Bhagya Debata poster
6.5

Jagdish leads an ordinary life with his wife, Savitri, but, one day, a man is murdered before his eyes and he fails to save him. He then takes up the identity of Alfred, a vigilante, to fight crime.

Bhagya Debata

1997

The Voyage Beyond poster
6.9

A father encourages his daughter to marry a dying man in order to inherit his wealth.

The Voyage Beyond

1987

Apanjan poster
10.0

An aged widow from a village moves to Calcutta to stay with relatives, but faces only exploitation. She moves to a slum, and finds her "own people" in a group of educated, unemployed youth, who are caught up inexorably in the prevalent political violence.

Apanjan

1968

Dui Prithibi poster
5.3

A rich man falls in love with an idealistic medical student. However, when circumstances force them apart, he learns the true meaning and value of love.

Dui Prithibi

2010

Hotel Snow Fox poster
NR

Mithu Mukherjee belonged to a poor family. Her father was suffering from a chronic disease. They didn't have enough money to buy his medicines. Her father (Asit Baran)'s friend had cheated him due to which they had to mortgage even their house to him. Mithu Mukherjee decided to help her family and came out of her house in search ofa job. At last she got a job in a company which however stopped its business within a few months' time. She then joined a hotel where she met Uttam Kumar. Uttam Kumar was a bar singer there. He was a singer in disguise and he used to help distressed women who were exploited by the so-called upper class rich people. Mithu Mukherjee (Khuku) was helped by Uttam Kumar who helped her family get her ancestral house back. At last Uttam Kumar gave all the secret details of those people to the police and took his leave.

Hotel Snow Fox

1976

Paar poster
6.5

When a Dalit wins the elections for mayor in his small village in northeastern India, deadly rioting forces an impoverished couple to escape to Calcutta where they can hopefully find work. Instead, they end up sleeping on the streets until they have a chance at earning a little income -- a man has asked them to take his herd of pigs across a fast-moving river. The current is dangerous, and worse, the wife is pregnant and this would not be an easy task even if she were not. Undaunted and desperate, the couple accept the job and enter the river to face their destiny.

Paar

1984

Chirutha poster
NR

A poor young man sells himself as a bonded labourer to a local landlord in order to marry the love of his life, after his fiancé's father demands a dowry for marrying his daughter.

Chirutha

1981

Bada Din poster
8.0

It is Christmas Day in Calcutta and David Dawson is off to celebrate it with his sweetheart, Nandini Shom. The meeting does not go well as Nandini wants him to start working so that they can get married and start a family, while David wants a career as a musician. She tells him that she will never see him again. Despondent, he returns to his rented apartment and is chided by his landlady, Lillian, who threatens to have him evicted as he has been delinquent in paying his rent for over a year...

Bada Din

1998

Alor Thikana poster
NR

In a world of family ties and hidden secrets, one woman's quest for independence collides with dark desires. Love and vengeance intertwine, revealing the true cost of power.

Alor Thikana

1974

No artwork available
NR

Uday owns a music company and has two siblings, Riju and Srija, who are heartbroken after experiencing a break-up in their relationships. Later, Uday tries to console them and make them happy.

Ratri Shesher Tara

2017

Sabuj Dwiper Raja poster
8.0

Raja Roychowdhury and his nephew Santu travel to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to solve the mystery behind the continuous disappearance of researchers at a remote island inhabited only by a primitive tribe.

Sabuj Dwiper Raja

1979

Kahan Kahan Se Guzar Gaya poster
10.0

Ravi, a wealthy model, leaves his father's business after unsatisfactory modeling work and returns to his parents' home to join struggle students and revolutionary Manohar.

Kahan Kahan Se Guzar Gaya

1986

No artwork available
NR

Directed by Milan Bhowmik. Featuring Ronit Roy, Ramaprasad Banik, Abhishek Chatterjee, Chumki Chowdhury, Ranjit Mallick and more.

Nishana

2002