Barun Chanda

Acting

Barun Chanda

Dacca, Bengal Presidency, British India

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).

Acting credits

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

Padatik poster
9.0

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

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

Aparajito poster
8.3

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

Aparajito

2022

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

Ranna Baati poster
NR

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

Toolsidas Junior poster
7.2

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

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

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

Khela Jawkhon poster
NR

The plot revolves around Urmi who one day wakes up from a nightmare and realizes what she sees around, what she’s up against in real life often contradict. She’s on a journey to Mayurbhanj to find her real identity and the journey turns into a self-discovery.

Khela Jawkhon

2022

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

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

Roy poster
4.6

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

Roy

2015

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

Chhaya O Chhobi poster
NR

Maya, an Indian who has grown up in London, comes to Darjeeling to shoot her first ever Bengali film. The shoot was continuing unhindered until one fine morning, when Rai, the female lead of the film, is nowhere to be found. Even her fiancé and the male lead of the film, Arindam, has no clue, leaving everyone is worried. The shoot is stalled until Rai decides to come back. Meanwhile, Rai ends up at a secluded resort amidst the jungles. For company, she only has the driver of her car, Jeetu. As new friendships emerge and old ties are wounded, perhaps there is an old bond somewhere in the past, that gets mended as well.An entire film unit putting up at a heritage hotel in the lap of Himalayas while a love story opens up a new chapter as the shoot goes on.

Chhaya O Chhobi

2017

Company Limited poster
7.1

Ambitious businessman Shyamalendu enjoys showing his visiting sister-in-law, Tutul, the extravagant life he leads with his wife. But Tutul is less than impressed with the trappings of wealth.

Company Limited

1971

The Ghosts of the Future poster
NR

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

Dispersion poster
NR

Grieving the loss of his father, an aspiring violinist finds an old memoir in his new apartment. As he investigates the professor who wrote it, unsettling parallels force him to confront his identity and the choices defining his life.

Dispersion

Ek Je Chhilo Raja poster
7.3

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

Re-Routing poster
NR

Re-Routing is a psychological thriller. The film centers on two individuals trapped in self-centered and claustrophobic lives. Throughout one night, their chance encounter forces them to confront their inner struggles and offers the possibility of "Re-Routing" each other's lives. The story emphasizes the possibility of empathy and redemption, even in the most challenging circumstances.

Re-Routing

Antaheen poster
5.8

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

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

Let's Go... poster
6.0

This is a story of four friends & school buddies. Out of them, only Ashim is an earning person, he is a doctor. Earlier, they started a Bangla Band, where Hari was the lead singer, but they were heavily thrashed by the public in a stage show in North Bengal. They decided not to sing any more. Then they started a traveling agency. On their first trip, they start the journey with only 9 passengers and a girl who later joins them. The film deals with their journey via Kalimpong. The ten passengers are of ten different types and also the four tour operators are of four different natures. As the journey progresses, their characters were revealed one by one.

Let's Go...

2008

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