Chandril Bhattacharya

Directing

Chandril Bhattacharya

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Chandril Bhattacharya (born May 1) is a popular Bengali columnist, lyricist, poet, singer and director from Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Bhattacharya is one of the main lyricists of the Bangla band Chandrabindoo and also occasionally sings for them. His idiomatic lyrics are laced with satire and critique of modern society. Chandril, together with Anindya Chatterjee won the 2010 National Film Award for Best Lyrics for the song "Pherari Mon" in the film Antaheen (2009). Chandril Bhattacharya formerly wrote the column "Uttam Madhyam" for Anandabazar Patrika on alternate Sundays, contributing to occasional op-eds in the same newspaper. His Uttam Madhyam pieces were collected as a book. Later, he began to air his views in the weekly Robbar Pratidin, in a column entitled "Du Chhokka Pnaach" ("two sixes and a five" - the highest score you can get in a single turn in the popular board game Ludo). In January 2011 his "Du Chhokka Pnaach" became bi-weekly. His satirical viewpoints addressed cultural phenomena, national and international current affairs, human psychology and social norms. He coins peculiar idioms, playful jargon, Spoonerisms and reconstructs colloquial Bengali phrases and expressions to formulate absurdist, humorous puns in most of his articles.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Routine poster
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A short film by Chandril Bhattacharya

Routine

2024

Routine poster
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A short film by Chandril Bhattacharya

Routine

2024

Talent poster
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One morning, a poet wakes up to find another man by his side. He gets scared thinking the other man is a thief, but he introduces himself as ‘talent’, who had remained with the poet for long and has now decided to leave for good.

Talent

2017

Talent poster
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One morning, a poet wakes up to find another man by his side. He gets scared thinking the other man is a thief, but he introduces himself as ‘talent’, who had remained with the poet for long and has now decided to leave for good.

Talent

2017

Brotokotha poster
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A sophisticated girl navigate coarse sexual encounters and emotional entanglements, wrestling with societal norms and personal desires with the help of her mother.

Brotokotha

2025

Brotokotha poster
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A sophisticated girl navigate coarse sexual encounters and emotional entanglements, wrestling with societal norms and personal desires with the help of her mother.

Brotokotha

2025

Brotokotha poster
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A sophisticated girl navigate coarse sexual encounters and emotional entanglements, wrestling with societal norms and personal desires with the help of her mother.

Brotokotha

2025

Y2K (Athoba, 'Sex Krome Aasitechhe') poster
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Chanchal, a typical soft middle class young Bengali and Calcuttan, not masculine enough and unconfident about the sex and the woman, pays out most of his time finding a suitable girl to prove his credibility as a male. In most of the cases he fails to frame himself as good enough a man to the girls he come across and gets disillusioned on all the occasions. Finally, he almost reaches a beautiful girl to a close proximity, but unfortunately, no sooner had he succeeded to win the girl's attention, he becomes blind in the curse of God.

Y2K (Athoba, 'Sex Krome Aasitechhe')

2000

Y2K (Athoba, 'Sex Krome Aasitechhe') poster
NR

Chanchal, a typical soft middle class young Bengali and Calcuttan, not masculine enough and unconfident about the sex and the woman, pays out most of his time finding a suitable girl to prove his credibility as a male. In most of the cases he fails to frame himself as good enough a man to the girls he come across and gets disillusioned on all the occasions. Finally, he almost reaches a beautiful girl to a close proximity, but unfortunately, no sooner had he succeeded to win the girl's attention, he becomes blind in the curse of God.

Y2K (Athoba, 'Sex Krome Aasitechhe')

2000