Born: September 30, 1962 (age 47)
Kolkata, India Spouse(s) Debashree Roy
Aparna Arpita Pal (present)
COMPILED BY THE IDEAS TEAM
• Prosenjit has acted in 279 films as on October 2009 Bengali feature films as hero for the past 27 years.
Prosenjit's detailed Filmogrpahy
• He first appeared in his father’s production Chhoto Jiggasha when he was only four years old.
• He has played hero opposite more than 50 leading ladies till date
• He has shared screen space with senior artists like Asit Baran, Rabin Majumdar, UttamKumar.
• His first film as hero was in a film called Duti Pata when he was barely 16
o In the beginning, Prosenjit was a part of professional theatre and did several plays. He started his career with theatre. He acted in ‘Charmurtir Goendagiri’ by Shyamal Sen. He also acted under direction of Premendu Bose, Asit Bose (in ‘Sonar Taree’). The team of Rangmahal theatre came up to him with a request to act in a play to save the theatre from financial crisis. He obliged them.
o He acted with senior actors like Mahendra Gupta, Sarajubala, Gyanesh Mukherjee, Haridhan, Debnarayan,
Kamal Mitra (in ‘Sonar Khoj’).
o After watching the play ‘Sonar Khoj’, he got the first offer to act in the film ‘Duti Pata’
o He did radio plays – Chitchor by Jagannath Basu. He did ‘srutinatak’ also.
• Leading directors like Tapan Sinha, Tarun Majumder, Bibhuti Laha, Shakti Samanta, Buddhadeb Dasgupta, Rituparno Ghosh, Prabhat Roy, Swapan Saha, Sujit Guha, Haranath Chakrobarty, Goutam Ghosh and Bappaditya
have declared him as one-man industry.
• He bagged the BFJA Award for his debutant performance as a child actor in his very first film “Chotto Jiggyasa” directed by Jagannath Chattopadhyay and produced by his father.
• His second movie Bimal Roy’s “Duti Pata” was a major hit- new look and packaging in Bengali cinema took forward in Amar Sangee
• With Sujit Guha’s “Amar Sangee” he became Tollywood’s chocolate hero -75 weeks running – turnaround point of Bengali cinema
• To his credit goes the title of having worked (in Bengali cinema) with the maximum number of Bollywood heroines
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ROLES
• He launched ZEE Bangla channel at Calcutta in the year 1994 on behalf of ZeeNetwork at the time when there was not even a single Bengali satellite channel existed except DD. It was a major success.
• He continued his work for ZEE till the Channel opened its own office in Kolkata.
• Founder Member & ex General Secretary, West Bengal Motion Pictures Artiste Forum
• Creative Consultant, Big Pictures, Bangla Projects. Reliance Big Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.
• Senior VP, Sahara India TV Network
• Today in his own company as Director, Ideas Creations And Productions Pvt Ltd
The company has been into TV productions and events.
There are plans of getting into Film Productions in a big way. Ideas, has also taken up franchisee of IIPM in West Bengal.
ACHIEVEMENTS
• Recipent of numerous Regional awards over the years.
• Mr. Chatterjee received the The National Film Award (Silver Lotus Award) - Special Jury Award / Special Mention Award for “ Dosar” at National Film Awards, 2007.
• Screening of his films made by directors like Rituporno Ghosh and Budhadev Dasgupta at the International Festivals in Cannes and Toronto.
• Present Member and recommended to be Chairman, Eastern Chapter, of the Film and TV Producers Guild of India.
PERSONAL & TRIVIA
• Prosenjit was born on September 30 in Kolkata.
• When he was a baby, he would often gurgle ‘boom’ ‘boom’ in response to which his father, actor Biswajeet, would respond by saying ‘ba’ ‘ba’ meaning ‘very good.’ Somewhere along the way, the two sounds merged and created his unique nickname Boomba that has stuck to him till this day.
Awards and achievements
Soumitra Chatterjee
for Krantikaal Best Actor Award
Durbine Chokh Rakhbo Na by Anupam Roy