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Dev is a Actor and Scriptwriter Indian born on 25 december 1982 at West Bengal (Inde)

Dev

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Birth name Deepak Adhikari
Nationality Inde
Birth 25 december 1982 (41 years) at West Bengal (Inde)
Creator of Jalsha Movies Production

Dev (Bengali: দেব) (born Deepak Adhikari on 25 December 1982) is an Indian film actor, producer, entertainer, singer and politician. He made his acting debut in the 2006 film Agnishapath. He is one of the biggest superstars and highest paid actors in Bengali cinema.

Recently, Dev has been hosting one of the biggest Bengali dance reality shows, Dance Bangla Dance, which was earlier hosted Mithun Chakraborty. He is now also an honorable Member of Parliament of India from the Ghatal constituency, as a candidate, from the party All India Trinamool Congress.

Biography

Dev was born in Mahisha, a small village near Keshpur, to Guru and Mousumi Adhikari. He has a sister, Deepali. His nickname is Raju. He spent his childhood living with his maternal uncle in Chandrakona; after that, he was brought up in Mumbai. He attended Purushottam High School, in Bandra, and Bharatiya Vidyapeeth University, in Pune, receiving a Diploma in Computer engineering from the latter. After receiving his diploma, Dev returned to Mumbai and started his film career as an observer on the set of Abbas-Mustan's Taarzan: The Wonder Car. He also did an acting course at the Kishore Namit Kapoor Acting Academy.

Usually with

N.K. Salil
N.K. Salil
(18 films)
Jeet Gannguli
Jeet Gannguli
(17 films)
Rajatava Dutta
Rajatava Dutta
(13 films)
Koel Mallick
Koel Mallick
(13 films)
Laboni Sarkar
Laboni Sarkar
(12 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Dev (36 films)

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Actor

Herogiri
Herogiri (2015)
, 2h31
Directed by Rabi Kinagi Adhikari
Genres Comedy, Action, Romance
Actors Dev, Koel Mallick, Sayantika Banerjee, Mithun Chakraborty, Kharaj Mukherjee, Bharat Kaul
Roles Raj / Shuvo
Rating45% 2.2654952.2654952.2654952.2654952.265495
Shuvo (Dev) works as a collection agent of ICICI in Kolkata and leads a happy life along with his friends and his father Dibakar Burman (Mithun Chakraborty) who wishes to see Shuvo married to a girl soon. Once Shuvo rushes to a Hospital where his friend is admitted as he tried to commit suicide by drinking nail polish solution and asks the reason for it. Then he describes about the traits of Maria (Koel Mallick) and her uncle (Kharaj Mukherjee). The duo have a habit of cheating gullible young men including his friend and Shuvo decides to teach them a lesson.
Buno Haansh
Buno Haansh (2014)
, 2h22
Directed by Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Dev, Srabanti Chatterjee, Tanusree Chakraborty, Moon Moon Sen, Arindam Sil, Sudipta Chakraborty
Roles Amal
Rating65% 3.295793.295793.295793.295793.29579
The story of the film, which deals with the underworld, revolves around Amal (played by Dev), who engages himself deeply into a smuggling business. The events which occur after the boy realizes that he has become the part of a dangerous game, form the climax of the story.
The Haunted Nighty
The Haunted Nighty (2014)

Genres Comedy
Actors Paoli Dam, Indraneil Sengupta, Jisshu Sengupta, Parambrata Chatterjee, Tanusree Chakraborty, Arunoday Banerjee - Rahul
Roles Himself
Rating55% 2.755072.755072.755072.755072.75507
The story of the film revolves around a cursed nightie which changes hands in a logical manner, not magically. The original owner of the nightie had experienced unfulfilled love, which ultimately led to a curse on it.
Bindaas
Bindaas (2014)
, 2h40
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Musical, Romance
Actors Dev, Srabanti Chatterjee, Sayantika Banerjee, Biswajit Chakraborty, Chiranjeet Chatterjee, Laboni Sarkar
Roles Abhimanyu aka Abhi
Rating50% 2.5172452.5172452.5172452.5172452.517245
The movie begins with Abhi (Dev) practicing guitar when a girl runs to him and asks him to save her from a gang of goons chasing her. Then Abhi, without fighting, resolves the conflict. The girl introduces herself as Kajol (Sayantika Banerjee). They slowly become friends. But one day she asks Abhi to leave her and go as she cannot stand the separation from him if their relationship develops any further. He then goes back to India and changes the mind of Kajol's brother and when they give a vacation he goes with him to his village. There, where everyone are conservative in nature, he changes their nature and makes them more lovable.
Yoddha
Yoddha (2014)

Directed by Raj Chakraborty
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Action, Romance
Actors Dev, Mimi Chakraborty, Rajatava Dutta, Nusrat Jahan
Roles Rudro Pratap / Aabir
Rating39% 1.9863751.9863751.9863751.9863751.986375
Khoka 420
Khoka 420 (2013)
, 2h
Actors Dev, Nusrat Jahan, Subhasree Ganguly, Tapas Paul, Rajatava Dutta, Haradhan Bandopadhyay
Roles Krish a.k.a Krishna

Krish is the son of a rich man. Krish( has a love interest in Megha(Nusrat). Megha also loves Krish a.k.a Krishna. Their relationship goes fine until Megha meets Bhoomi (Subhasree) and they become best friends. Bhoomi tells her best friend Megha about his rowdy and tough cousin who her family wants her to get married to but she does not want to marry. Megha gets worried about her friend and tells the problem to her boyfriend, Krish. Megha makes Bhoomi meet Krish and tells Krish to act as if Krish is Bhoomi's boyfriend and let Bhoomi's family know that Bhoomi is in a relationship with Krish. Krish does not agree at first but later agrees to help out Bhoomi. In the meantime ,Bhoomi fall in love with Krish in reality. Krish also gets close to Bhoomi. Later, one day Krish gets to know that Megha and Bhoomi's fathers are step-brothers and they have a family rivalry between them from ages. Krish meets the two brother's grandfather (Haradhan Bandopadhyay) and gets to know why they have the rivalry and also gets to know that grandfather wants them to be together again. The grandfather gives the responsibility to Krish to get the two families together again and if he is successful he will get Megha or Bhoomi- whoever he is in love with hand in marriage. Krish falls in a big problem as he is not interested in all this family rivalry. But later he decides to get the family together. In the meantime, Megha gets the wrong idea that Krish and Bhoomi is cheating her and Krish is in love with Bhoomi and not her. Megha is devastated and she insults Bhoomi badly. Bhoomi in rage tells her that Krish is only hers and Megha will never be able to get her. Megha's rage increases on these words and she challenges Bhoomi that she will get Krish. Letr she also gets to know Bhoomi is her step;sister because of the two fathers.When Krish gets to know about all this , Krish gets totally confused on everything and fails to understand who he actually loves. Through all this misunderstanding , Krish manages to get the family together again. Atlast, when the two brothers get together both offers Krish to marry their daughters.The two brothers (Rajatava Dutta and Tapas Paul) assures Krish that he will get the hand of whoever he wants to marry. But Krish gets totally confused between Bhoomi and Megha. He runs to the temple of the village and asks Lord Krishna- who only spoke to Krish and Krish could hear him. Krish asks Lord Krishna for help when Lord Krishna comes out of his idol and gives Krish his divine flute and tells him to just go on and that he was in the same state as he was in. He was also confused between Meera and Radha and he did not marry anyone. Krish takes the flute and he does not come back to Bhoomi or Megha and leaves the village forever.
Mountains of the Moon
Mountains of the Moon (2013)
, 2h28
Directed by Kamaleshwar Mukherjee
Genres Adventure
Themes Children's films
Actors Dev, Gérard Rudolf, Laboni Sarkar
Roles Shankar Roy Chowdhury
Rating63% 3.1977253.1977253.1977253.1977253.197725
Chander Pahar is the story of a young Bengali man's adventures, named Shankar Roy Chowdhury (Dev) in Africa in the years 1909-1910. Shankar Roy Chowdhury, the protagonist, is a 20-year-old man, recently completed his FA (First Arts)(graduation) and about to take up a job in a jute mill, a prospect he absolutely loathes.
The Thug
The Thug (2013)
, 2h15
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Actors Dev, Koel Mallick, Rahul Dev, Rajatava Dutta, Kharaj Mukherjee, Biswanath Basu
Roles Raj
Rating45% 2.267122.267122.267122.267122.26712
An auto driver(Kushal Chakraborty), sees Lucky Bhai (Rahul Dev) murder a journalist. The auto driver manages to capture Lucky Bhai & his henchman, and hold them until the Police arrive. Afterwards, the auto driver returns home to his wife and son, Raj. Unfortunately, Lucky Bhai & his henchmen break into their house that night. The auto driver is killed and his wife is severely injured. Raj survives uninjured. Raj's mother is in a critical condition but he & his uncle don't have enough money to pay for her operation. The local mafia leader's son has committed murder and offers Raj a deal. In order to pay for his mother's surgery, Raj has to go to prison the crime.
Khoka 420
Khoka 420 (2013)
, 2h46
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Actors Dev, Subhasree Ganguly, Nusrat Jahan, Tapas Paul, Joy Badlani, Rajatava Dutta
Roles Krish
Rating46% 2.3203452.3203452.3203452.3203452.320345
In this story Krish (played by Dev) is the hero and Bhoomi (played by Subhashree Ganguly) is the leading heroine. Krish is the son of a rich man. Krish (has love interest in Megha (Nusrat Jahan). Megha also loves Krish a.k.a. Krishna. Their relationship goes fine until Megha meets Bhoomi (Subhashree Ganguly) and they become best friends. Bhoomi tells her best friend Megha about his rowdy and tough cousin who her family wants her to get married to but she does not want to marry. Megha gets worried about her friend and tells the problem to her boyfriend, Krish. Megha makes Bhoomi meet Krish and tells Krish to act as if Krish is Bhoomi's boyfriend and let Bhoomi's family know that Bhoomi is in a relationship with Krish. Krish does not agree at first but later agrees to help out Bhoomi. In the meantime, Bhoomi fall in love with Krish in reality. Krish also gets close to Bhoomi. Later, one day Krish gets to know that Megha and Bhoomi's fathers are step-brothers and they have a family rivalry between them from ages. Krish meets the two brother's father (Haradhan Bandopadhyay) and gets to know why they have the rivalry and also gets to know that grandfather wants them to be together again. The grandfather gives the responsibility to Krish to get the two families together again and if he is successful he will get Megha or Bhoomi- whoever he is in love with hand in marriage. Krish falls in a big problem as he is not interested in all this family rivalry. But later he decides to get the family together. In the meantime, Megha gets the wrong idea that Krish and Bhoomi is cheating her and Krish is in love with Bhoomi and not her. Due to the untimely death of Late Shri Haradhan Bandopadhay,the climax of the movie was changed which made it different from the original story of Brindavanam where Krish marries Bhoomi as Meera explained.
Challenge 2
Challenge 2 (2012)
, 2h35
Genres Action, Romance
Actors Dev, Pooja Bose, Tapas Paul, Ashish Vidyarthi, Kharaj Mukherjee, Rajatava Dutta
Roles IPS Officer Abhiraj Roy a.k.a. Abhi
Rating49% 2.464662.464662.464662.464662.46466
IPS Officer Abhiraj Roy a.k.a. Abhi (Dev) is a daring super-cop in Mumbai. He is on a mission to apprehend a mafia don, Guru Nayak (Ashish Vidyarthi), who is involved in illegal drug trade, extortion, and arms trafficking. His father, Debraj Roy (Tapas Paul), who was a politician driven by idealistic values and a sense of social service, met with a fatal accident. It is later revealed that Debraj actually survived the accident but ended up in a state of coma. However, this truth is hidden by their family from the people. Abhi maintains a low profile to catch Guru Nayak. In an undercover operation in Malaysia, Abhi gets hold of Guru Nayak's brother Bunty (Surajit Sen). Later, it is revealed that one corrupt businessman, Apurba Ghosh (Dipankar Dey), was the mastermind behind Debraj's accident.
Khokababu
Khokababu (2012)

Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Dev, Subhasree Ganguly, Ferdous Ahmed, Laboni Sarkar, Tathoi Deb, Biswajit Chakraborty
Roles Abir / Khoka/ Khokababu
Rating52% 2.6074452.6074452.6074452.6074452.607445
The film is about Abir Roy a.k.a. Khoka/Khokababu (Dev) who is a cool and a clever guy. Shankar Das a.k.a. Bhaiji (Ferdous) is a well-known don in his territory whom everybody fears and obeys. Khoka joins Bhaiji's circle as an accountant where he has a wacky senior Khanra Babu (Subhashish Mukherjee). Khoka with his super wit starts to obtain every luxury that a perfect office should have and starts to hoax Bhaiji. Problems occur when Khoka falls in love with Bhaiji's sister Pooja (Subhasree Ganguly). Anyone who even looks in her direction is simply dealt with in the cruellest possible way. Khoka somehow manages to win over Pooja and also gains the complete trust of Bhaiji by changing the system in which his business operates. Bhaiji asks him to look after Pooja as he considers his other employees to be incapable. Khoka and Pooja fall in love with each other and even get secretly married. She even goes to his house to stay for 3 days as Bhaiji's rival Ballu (Ashish Vidyarthi) is after her life. Bhaiji is completely unaware of Khoka and Pooja's relation, however he does come to know about it later. Can their love survive when Bhaiji is over-possessive about his sister and goons like Ballu are on the loose to take revenge from Bhaiji by killing his sister Pooja? That's how our super-clever Chalu Cheez Khokababu takes the story ahead.
Paglu 2
Paglu 2 (2012)

Directed by Sujit Mondal
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Romance
Actors Dev, Koel Mallick, Tota Roy Choudhury, Rajatava Dutta, Rimjhim Mitra, Kharaj Mukherjee
Roles Dev
Rating40% 2.028292.028292.028292.028292.02829
Dev (Dev) is a high school drop out from and a worthless village lad. He is hell bent on getting married. But the girl he wants to marry rejects him stating that he doesn't have college education. Dev, who is clever and street-smart decides to go to Kolkata for further education. While travelling in the train, he bashes up a bunch of rowdies teasing college girls. At the college in Kolkata, he meets Riya (Koel Mallick) and falls in love with her. A city gangster, Rudra, (Tota Roy Chowdhury) is in love with her and blackmails her to marry him. He beats anyone moving closely with Riya. Meanwhile, henchmen of the dreaded chieftain Dubai Keshto (Rajatava Dutta), from Dubai, are looking for Dev in the city.