Barun Chanda

Acting

Barun Chanda

Place of birth

Dacca, Bengal Presidency, British India

Known for

Acting

Credits

63 titles

Barun Chanda (born 30 May) is an Indian advertising professional, actor and author based in the city of Kolkata. He is mostly remembered for his role in Satyajit Ray's Seemabaddha. He portrayed the role of Jawaharlal Nehru in Anik Duttaʼs Aparajito (2022).

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 20 titles

Awarapan 2 poster
5.5

Once a feared gangster, Shivam lives hidden away from his past, with no faith left in God or himself. But when fate pulls him into Bangkok's cartel war and forces him back into the darkness he swore never to return to, Shivam must choose what he is willing to live for, when there is nothing left to lose.

Awarapan 2

2026

Chor Nikal Ke Bhaga poster
6.9

A flight attendant and her boyfriend must steal a cache of diamonds to clear an old debt — but the plan spins into a mayhem when the plane gets hijacked.

Chor Nikal Ke Bhaga

2023

Nadaaniyan poster
5.9

A privileged Delhi socialite hires a middle-class student to pose as her boyfriend to maintain her social status. Their pretense becomes complicated when genuine feelings develop between them.

Nadaaniyan

2025

Mrs. Chatterjee Vs Norway poster
5.9

An immigrant Indian mother fights the Norwegian foster care system and legal machinery to win back custody of her children.

Mrs. Chatterjee Vs Norway

2023

Toolsidas Junior poster
7.1

A young boy seeks to master the game of snooker to defend his father’s legacy after a humiliating loss. But first, he’ll need help from a hardened pro.

Toolsidas Junior

2022

Bob Biswas poster
6.5

Bob Biswas, a hitman-for-hire, comes out of a prolonged coma and struggles to recall his identity but suffers a moral dilemma when the memories of his past resurface.

Bob Biswas

2021

Murderbaad poster
NR

A Jaipur tour guide's romance with an NRI unravels when a fellow tourist goes missing. As suspicion mounts, he vanishes-sparking a nationwide hunt that leads to one of modern India's most shocking crime twists.

Murderbaad

2025

Padatik poster
7.5

Mrinal Sen is in his early days around the time of India’s independence, where he is a struggling idealist with an all-consuming hunger for cinema but unable to feed himself or his young wife, to 1950s Calcutta, where (alongside Satyajit Ray) he helped start the Indian New Wave cinema movement.

Padatik

2024

Hobu Chandra Raja Gobu Chandra Mantri poster
7.0

The TV film is about Hobu Chandra, the king of Bombagarh and his wife Kusumkoli. Everyone in Bombagarh was happy. Then arrives Gurjar Gobu and things take a turn when he becomes the new minister.

Hobu Chandra Raja Gobu Chandra Mantri

2021

Trial Period poster
6.1

A working single mother's world turns upside down when her inquisitive son demands a new father on a 30-day 'Trial Period'.

Trial Period

2023

Karnasubarner Guptodhon poster
7.3

Sona Da, Abir and Jhinuk come across a riddle that turns their vacation into a dangerous quest for the hidden treasure of King Shashanka, one of the best-kept secrets of Bengal.

Karnasubarner Guptodhon

2022

Feludar Goyendagiri: Darjeeling Jawmjawmaat poster
6.2

The suave Prodosh C. Mitter aka Feluda has ruled over our hearts with his sharp wit, impressive intellect and astute observation skills for over five decades now! The story starts off with the murder of Birupaksha Majumdar by Vishnudas Balaporia in the cold Darjeeling Mountains. Feluda, Topshey and Lalmohun Ganguly investigate.

Feludar Goyendagiri: Darjeeling Jawmjawmaat

2022

Aparajito poster
8.3

A young filmmaker prepares for the debut of his first feature film.

Aparajito

2022

Ranna Baati poster
5.0

In the bustling, nostalgic lanes of North Kolkata, Sumit Dasgupta, a 40-year-old software engineer, lives a routine-driven life with his teenage daughter, Mohor. Ever since his wife, Supriya, passed away unexpectedly a year ago, Sumit has been struggling to balance his demanding job and single parenthood.

Ranna Baati

2025

Chiroshakha Hey poster
NR

Chiro Sakha Hey revolves around the story of Ishan (Mazumdar) and Tilottama (Tanushree). Ishan, who hails from an illustrious family, lost his father during his childhood. He then moved to North Bengal along with his paternal uncle Sibasish (Chanda, a lawyer, and mother Aloka (Mithu). Now he works as a professional photographer and is a skilled painter too. Tilottama, who lost her husband seven years ago, carries the trauma of some tragic incident from her past. Amidst acute despair, Tilotttama gets acquainted with Ishan, who brings a ray of hope to her life.

Chiroshakha Hey

2023

Borunbabur Bondhu poster
7.0

Borun Chakraborty, a grumpy old man, leads a lonely life with his bedridden wife and an emotionally distant family. Things take a turn for the unexpected after the country's president gets in touch with him.

Borunbabur Bondhu

2020

Shororipu 2: Jotugriho poster
7.0

Deputy Commissioner of Police Sharma and his detective friend Chandrakant Sen are called on to investigate the death of veteran music director Debraj Sen. Was his death of Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome a mere accident? Did his third wife Megha Sen have anything to do with it?

Shororipu 2: Jotugriho

2021

Avwanchhit poster
NR

Two world's collide, of a father and a son as they move towards the bigger priorities of their lives. Madhusudhan, the head of Nirupama old age home, strives every day to spread happiness and cheer in a place that houses a deep sense of loss and rejection. A home inhabited by frail and old abandoned people, who have nowhere else to go and call Nirupama their home. Tapan, Madhusudhan's only son grew up training himself to survive the world alone. He blames Madhusudhan for being a father in absentia and also for his mother's death. The story takes us through an emotional roller-coaster of a father and son relationship in the backdrop of Kolkata- a city jostling between fading tradition and modernity taking over.

Avwanchhit

2021

Danny Detective Inc. poster
NR

Subrata Sharma is a reporter who leaves his job and joins a small time detective agency, Danny Detective Inc. in Kolkata. Working on a kidnapping case, his boss, Danny, is killed. Circumstances force Subrata to take up the case. He travels to the Dooars, south of the outer foothills of the Himalayas, to unravel a big time criminal underworld. He takes up the responsibility of the agency. How will he succeed in catching the killer?

Danny Detective Inc.

2021

The Wanderlust of Apu poster
7.0

With 'Avijatrik' (The Wanderlust of Apu) , by Subhrajit Mitra - the enduring and endearing character of 'Apu' is all set to return after 60 years. It is the sequel to the classic "Apu Trilogy", which were directed by Satyajit Ray.

The Wanderlust of Apu

2021

2010s · 27 titles

Lootera poster
7.0

In a village, a young archaeologist falls in love with a landlord's daughter. Their union seems doomed. But destiny brings them together a year later. Will they live happily ever after?

Lootera

2013

Roy poster
4.5

A love triangle revolving around the lives of a filmmaker, a thief and their mutual love interest.

Roy

2015

Hrid Majharey poster
6.0

An affair that begins one rainy evening on a lonely Calcutta street. And ends on yet another rainy evening in the Andaman Islands. A journey dotted by love, jealousy and destiny, it is loosely inspired by the works of William Shakespeare.

Hrid Majharey

2014

Ami Aar Amar Girlfriends poster
4.0

Three girlfriends, Preenita, Rhea and Shreemoyee share everything with each other from the angst of the "will-he-or-won't-he-call" debates, to the addictive gossip sessions, the analysis of dumping and getting dumped, the complaining about husbands, boyfriends, or the lack of boyfriends; over cups and cups of coffee, as they let their hair down on their 'girls-gone-wild' nights on the town.

Ami Aar Amar Girlfriends

2013

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

Chorabali poster
5.8

A whodunit thriller set in the backdrop of North Kolkata with its British Raj charm, based on Agatha Christie's Cards on the Table.

Chorabali

2016

Belaseshe poster
6.9

A story of relationships that explores the intricacies of the married life, of life-long companionship, of promises and expectations and love.

Belaseshe

2015

Ghawre Bairey Aaj poster
6.3

Ghawre Bairey Aaj is inspired by Rabindranath Tagore's novel 'Ghawre Bairey' (Home and the World) and is a contemporary retelling of love triangle involving Tagore's characters Nikhilesh, Sandip and Bimala.

Ghawre Bairey Aaj

2019

The Egyptian Mystery poster
6.0

Al Mamun, an Egyptian business tycoon, asks his friend Kakababu to help him decode some hieroglyphic symbols that will help trace the will of his teacher, Mufti Mohammad.

The Egyptian Mystery

2013

Rakkhosh poster
6.1

The movie explores the horrors and fantasies of a patient trapped in a mental asylum.

Rakkhosh

2019

Chotushkone poster
7.4

Four famous directors and old friends are reunited together by an unknown producer to make a film. They have to make four short story in this film with one common theme: Death.

Chotushkone

2014

Kuchh Bheege Alfaaz poster
7.2

Every night at 10, Kolkata tunes into radio to listen to 'Kuchh Bheege Alfaaz' - an episodic series of unrequited love stories hosted by RJ Alfaz who, despite his tremendous following, prefers staying detached and anonymous. Among his many fans is the boisterous Archana, a girl working at a creative agency – which designs branded memes. She is leukodermic but lives life to the fullest. They meet; or rather talk, for the first time over a misplaced call, when Archana accidentally dials Alfaaz's number, while trying to connect with her latest blind date. Thus begins an interesting relationship between two unlikely characters, one overly compensating, but in denial of her present, and the other buried under a dark secret of his past.

Kuchh Bheege Alfaaz

2018

Aborto poster
5.3

Shyamal competes with Runu in the race to become vice president of a big MNC and, in the process, distances himself from Charu, his wife. However, in the time of trouble, Charu comes to his rescue.

Aborto

2013

Ek Je Chhilo Raja poster
7.1

Mahendra Kumar Choudhuri, the middle prince of the Bhawal Estate was affected by syphilis and was taken to Darjeeling for treatment. He apparently died in Darjeeling and was cremated there. After 12 years, a Sanyasi shows up at the estate, arousing people’s curiosity and leading to a rumour that he is the lost prince of the Bikrampur Estate.

Ek Je Chhilo Raja

2018

The Ghosts of the Future poster
4.0

A group of ghosts are rendered homeless as all the old haunted buildings in Kolkata have been converted into multi-storied buildings, malls and multiplexes. Some of them, from varied social-economic background, take shelter in an abandoned, dilapidated single-screen theatre, planning to make themselves relevant and fit for the future as contemporary ghosts.

The Ghosts of the Future

2019

System poster
NR

Eklavya is a gangster and a feared one at that. His criminal undertakings know no limits and he goes as far as killing the innocent to get what he wants.

System

2011

Laptop poster
7.0

The story revolves around a stolen Laptop which becomes a witness of the lives of those who own it from time-to-time, connecting all of them in the process.

Laptop

2012

Ebong Kiriti poster
NR

Detective Kiriti Roy investigates an unexpected murder during a party. Later, he learns that each guest has secrets of their own and tries to identify the real killer.

Ebong Kiriti

2017

Elar Char Adhyay poster
8.5

Indranath is a leader of a group which is fighting for Indian independence. Ela is the teacher of the group. Ela is caught in a dilemma between her love for Atindra and her commitment towards her country.

Elar Char Adhyay

2012

Kolkatay Kohinoor poster
NR

History unfolds many truths. The more we dig in, the more we come to know about the realities of the past. But sometimes, some truths remain hidden and unventured. It is our wisdom and sixth sense with which we discover those hidden truths. The history of Kohinoor is one such example. Is the Kohinoor we know truly the Babur's stone? The hard facts of past strongly raises this question. What if the original Babur's stone is in our city of joy?

Kolkatay Kohinoor

2019

Swabhoomi poster
NR

Four youngsters and a couple take matters into their own hands when a few felonious individuals encroach upon innocent people's land in their village.

Swabhoomi

2013

Anwar Ka Ajab Kissa poster
5.8

Anwar, a maverick detective works in a small detective agency in Kolkata. He has a habit of getting involved in the personal lives of his cases. In one such instance, he takes a case in his rural homeland and is forced to confront his own romantic tragedy.

Anwar Ka Ajab Kissa

2013

Anukul poster
8.0

A Hindi teacher rents a robot to work in his home.

Anukul

2017

No artwork available
NR

Life of an artist who earns his livelihood by engraving miniature images of mosques and temples on grindstones. Set in a small town, the film asks many poignant questions about the contemporary day Indian reality through the artist’s experience of making an error.

Bishad Bindu

2018

Woh poster
NR

Little Poupe' comes to her Grandfather, a celebrated author, for the first time when her mother falls seriously ill. Her gloomy stay in the age old mansion with a grumpy faced Mary Aunty and a lonesome Grandfather slowly takes a turn with the arrival of a circus troupe, a talking fox, a nagging tiger, a magic tree and WOH, the anonymous commoner from the Grandfather's writing. With WOH intruding the ordinary day to day activities, Poupe' and her 'Daddu's' life takes a sudden leap and becomes adventurous...WOH is inspired by Rabindranath Tangore's novel "Shey" (That Fellow) written in Shantiniketan, 1937 about his own relationship with Grand Daughter Nandini.

Woh

2013

Ek Phaali Rodh poster
7.5

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.

Ek Phaali Rodh

2014

Kabir poster
5.7

The storyline of the film is based on the apprehension of the co-founder of Indian Mujahideen and conspirator of several bomb blasts in India, Yasin Bhatkal, by National Investigation Agency near Indo-Nepal border.

Kabir

2018

2000s · 7 titles

Antaheen poster
6.2

Antaheen follows the lives of three couples in tumultous relationships, who lead different lives but are connected by the infinite struggles and pain each of them goes through.

Antaheen

2009

Chalo Let's Go... poster
6.0

This is a story about four friends, Hari, Shekhar, Ashim, and Sanjay, who start a travel agency called 'Gharoa Travels'. Their first trip begins with nine passengers. On the way to the hills, a young woman named Ria suddenly joins them. The ten tourists and four operators form an assorted medley of characters. As the journey progresses, their personalities slowly unfold.

Chalo Let's Go...

2008

No artwork available
6.0

The story of two couples - each with their own struggles to survive as a couple and as individuals. After living in London for a few years, Rahul and Nandita have recently moved back to Kolkata and become friends with Amit and Preeti. It is the lives of these four friends that creates a resonance, a chord, that echoes through their present and future.

Anuranan

2008

No artwork available
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Pa Ma Ga Re Sa

2009

No artwork available
NR

This is a story about four friends, Hari, Shekhar, Ashim, and Sanjay, who start a travel agency called 'Gharoa Travels'. Their first trip begins with nine passengers. On the way to the hills, a young woman named Ria suddenly joins them. As the journey progresses, their personalities slowly unfold. The film has flash-forwards juxtaposed with the present, giving the audience a glimpse into the fates of the characters as the story moves forward.

Chalo Let's Go

2008

No artwork available
NR

Tolly Lights is a 2008 Bengali-language Indian feature film directed by Arjun Chakraborty, starring Sreelekha Mitra, Abhishek Chatterjee, Priyadarshini Chatterjee and Arjun Chakraborty in lead roles. The Film is based on the novel "Rangeen Prithibi" by Suchitra Bhattacharya.[1][2] Hindi film actor Sunny Deol played an important role in the film.

Tolly Lights

2008

Prohor poster
NR

Nandita, a nurse, one day encounters a case of bomb blast. The patient was none other than a criminal, who makes memories flash past her mind. This is the same man who raped her six years ago.

Prohor

2002

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