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Kaushik Ganguly is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Producer Indian born on 4 august 1968 at Kolkata (Inde)
Kaushik Ganguly is an Indian director, screenwriter and actor in Bengali cinema. He is known for his works that explore sexuality, like Ushnatar Janye (2003), which deals with a lesbian relationship, and Arekti Premer Golpo (2010), which examines transgender identity.
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Mahabharat (2015)
Directed by Kamaleshwar Mukherjee
Actors Prosenjit Chatterjee, Dev, Abir Chatterjee, Payel Sarkar, Parambrata Chatterjee, Anjan Dutt
Roles Jayanta (inspired from Jayadrat)
Apur Panchali (2014)
Directed by Kaushik Ganguly
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Parambrata Chatterjee, Parno Mittra, Gaurav Chakrabarty, Ritwick Chakraborty, Karuna Banerjee, Soumitra Chatterjee
Rating81%
The film follows the journey of Subir Banerjee the child actor who portrayed "apu" of Satyajit Ray's masterpiece Pather Panchali. The events take place in two time periods. while the present day events are shot in color the past events are in black and white. Comparison is drawn between Subir's life and the Apu trilogy throughout the film.
Chaya Manush (2014)
Actors Parambrata Chatterjee, Raima Sen, Soumitra Chatterjee, Paoli Dam, Kaushik Ganguly
Rating71%
Chotushkone (2014)
, 2h28Directed by Srijit Mukherji
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Aparna Sen, Chiranjeet Chatterjee, Goutam Ghose, Parambrata Chatterjee, Payel Sarkar, Indrasish Roy
Roles Producer
Rating81%
The film starts with a woman writing a letter, which reads 'Amar mrittur jonne keu dayi noy' which means that 'no one is responsible for my death'; but she strikes out 'keu dayi noy', hinting that there is someone, or some people responsible. A man is seen coming out of a taxi, coming up the stairs, and then opening a study room where the woman is seen hanging from the ceiling. A young boy, who was probably sleeping on a bed nearby, rushes to greet the man, but discovers the woman's hanging corpse. Here the camera rolls back to sometime past. A beautiful woman named 'Nilanjana' is seen talking with some people, and then visits another man in a corner named 'Ritwik', and together, they go to meet someone. The audience is brought to the present again, where a producer and a director is seen having a deal that the latter would convince three famous film-artists to feature in the film. The director leaves, and starts doing what he said. There are various minor details as in introducing the three present characters. The director 'Joy', who seems close to one of those artists, Trina, meets her on a rooftop, and tries to convince her to take up this work against her wishes to work with another man who would feature in this collaboration. There is a slight hint that there is an old clash between them, possibly of love. Meanwhile, another such famous film-artist 'Sakhyo' tries to convince that very man named 'Diptyo' with whom Trina has a problem with to join this collaboration. The idea is that these people are to make a film, individually; thus, four directors get together and plan to make a film, consisting of four short stories one one theme-DEATH. They have an appointment with the producer on the outskirts of the city. Now, again, in a black-and-white screen, Nilanjana and Ritwik are meeting a producer, and they have just one request before finalizing the contract-their mutual friend 'Amitava' who is a struggling, but talented director. In the shooting set, it is clearly implied that 'Amitava' is in love with Nilanjana, and is filled by rage, and becomes jealous when he discovers Ritwik and she kissing in a room during the shooting. Coming back to the present, while the four are together, all three except Joy comes up with a story which is unique in its own way, but connected to the other stories by a common theme. Their stories are autonomous. In between the stories, some scenes reveal that there is something in between Trina and Diptyo. However, in the middle of the night, as they were going towards their destination, the car breaks down, and they spend the night in a nearby bungalow that is said to be belonging to the same producer; his cell phone is switched off. It is here that each of them revisits their past by the courtesy of Joy. In the beautifully crafted climax, Joy starts narrating his own story before meeting the producer. He says that his film named 'Nemesis' features three people-an actress, an actor and a director, of the '70s. The actress Nilanjana, is the leading superstar of that era. The actor Ritwik is a very good painter, and the director 'Amitava' is a struggling one, though talented. Diptyo interrupts and says that he shall send him his mail-id, here Joy can send his pay-cheque, implying that his characters are the very same people in that room. Joy, not quite interrupted, continues; he tells that 'these three were connected by a well known figure of geometry-Triangle'. Nilanjana fell in love with Ritwik after observing his acting skills; the couple were very compatible in the beginning, both had common likes and fancies. They started dating. 'Amitava' had to live with unreciprocated love, but this did not affect the friendship among them. But then, when the film is about 70% complete, the relationship between Nilanjana and Ritwik breaks, and Amitava, no longer able to see the two brimming with romance, decides to leave the film. In between all this, the producer, who was up with a new idea in the world of Bengali Films, and had spent a lot of money, went bankrupt. Although this man could somehow manage to live, his wife, who noticed that her jewellery was one by one consumed to make up for lost money, hung herself due to a financial insecurity. The man was broken and devastated-he became mentally unstable, and turned mad. Joy stops here. The rest three, who remained a bit shocked at the recurrence of past events, that actually featured them, however, praised him for the plot. Diptyo asked him where was the connection of retribution, or nemesis with these events. In response, Joy says that this ways just the pre-title - the real story takes place 20 years later. In the real story, this producer's step-brother, whom they loved more than their own child was scarred for life when he saw all these happen. He was brilliant student, and even out of all financial crisis there was no bar put before his education-he went abroad with a scholarship, but came all the way back to Calcutta to direct films, because that was in his blood. He wanted to do that desperately. After filming some low-grade films, he draws up courage for his final act. He told the three of a fake producer, a fake deal, with a fake card and a fake cell-phone number. Right then, Diptyo tries to look into his mobile to check on something, when Joy shouts, calls in the driver of their car 'Sanjay', who was supposedly in the city with the faulty parts of the car. Sanjay, though reluctantly, points a revolver with 4 bullets, at them, and takes away their cell phones. Joy now continues; He says, "After successfully entrapping them in a desolate bungalow in the middle of a jungle...this guys, he decides to...kill them!...one by one." Now as the climax draws to an end, at first the revolver is aimed at Sakhyo, but the cabinet is empty when the trigger is pressed! With the next culprit Diptyo, the same thing happens. Next, when it is pointed at Trina, and there is no doubt that this time there will be a shot, Trina declares that she still loves Diptyo. Just when the trigger was about to be pressed, a quick thought from Diptyo made him pull Trina out of the bullet's way, which in turn hit Joy, fatally. The camera is seen drifting away from a scene of regret and sobs from the driver and another old servant in the house. This was his film, 'Nemesis.
Khaad (2014)
Directed by Kaushik Ganguly
Genres Drama, Adventure
Actors Rudranil Ghosh, Lily Chakravarty, Gargi Roychowdhury, Kaushik Ganguly, Bharat Kaul, Mimi Chakraborty
Roles Khokan
Rating72%
Sound (2013)
, 1h40Directed by Kaushik Ganguly
Genres Drama
Actors Raima Sen, Ritwick Chakraborty, Churni Ganguly, Victor Banerjee, Srijit Mukherji, Kaushik Ganguly
Roles Doctor with a squint
Rating80%
The protagonist of the film is Tarak Dutta (Ritwik Chakraborty), a foley artist. He is so obsessed with his work that he loses his grip on words and his mind starts registering only foley sounds.
Aborto (2013)
Directed by Arindam Sil
Actors Tota Roy Choudhury, Joya Ahsan, Reshmi Ghosh, Abir Chatterjee, Kaushik Ganguly, Saswata Chatterjee
Rating60%
Shyamal Sen(Tota Roychowdhury) is GM sales for an MNC and is competing for the Vice President post of his company alongside Ranadip aka Runu Sanyal (Saswata Chatterjee). Shyamal hails from a middle-class family in Sonarpur where he has grown up with his elder brother (Kaushik Ganguly). He is now married to Charu(Joya Ahsan). Shyamal has always been jealous of his elder brother because he felt that his elder brother got all the attention in the family and was more intelligent among the siblings. He burned off his brother's certificates in a fit of rage as a child. This is shown in the film's opening credits.
C/O Sir (2013)
Directed by Kaushik Ganguly
Genres Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about disabilities
Actors Saswata Chatterjee, Raima Sen, Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, Indraneil Sengupta, Sudipta Chakraborty, Kaushik Ganguly
Roles Mr. Niogi, advocate of the school's governing body. He was also involved in the moneymaking plot with Ranabir. Although it is never shown in the film, perhaps he is the one who murdered Mr. Das, the respected old teacher of Jayabrata. He is also arrested
Rating73%
The film is set in a boys' school in Kurseong. The story revolves around the life of school teacher Jayabrata Ray, played by Saswata Chatterjee, who has gone blind due to a sudden retinal disorder. He must now rely on his sense of hearing. After becoming irritable and helpless due to the situation, how he tries to stop the school being sold and how he tackles the situation himself (as his friends are turning foes) becomes the issue of the story.
Shunyo (2013)
Directed by Rudranil Ghosh
Actors Anjan Dutt, Rudranil Ghosh, Kaushik Ganguly, Tanusree Chakraborty
Roles Animesh Goswami
The story actually revolves around the daughter of a frontline businessman of the city named Neha Jaiswal, who is desperate to tie her knot with Gogol, a boy belonging to a middle-class family. They go on a college trip to Kalimpong but however they does not return alive. The mystery starts at this very moment. The character of Neha is played by newcomer Rai and Gogol is played by Debanjan. “It was actually so great working with Rudra Da (Rudranil Ghosh). He taught us every moment what to do and what not to. It was more of a learning experience for us”, said Rai who has also appeared for his class 10 CBSE board exams this year.
Kangal Malsat (2013)
Directed by Suman Mukhopadhyay
Genres War, Comedy
Actors Kaushik Ganguly, Shantilal Mukherjee, Kamalika Banerjee, Biswajit Chakraborty, Ushasie Chakraborty
Roles Marshal Bondi
Rating71%
In the Bengali language, the name of the film literally translates to "War cry of the Beggars". The film shows two imaginary groups of contemporary Bengal- Fyataroo: Flying human beings; Choktor: Black Magic sect Bhodi. The head of the Choktors, initiates a total war against the ruling political party of West Bengal, India. Fyataroos join hands with Choktors. Advised by Calcutta's progenitors Dandabayash (ageless primordial talking crow) and an Indo-colonial half-breed Begum Johnson(1732-1818) erupt a historic insurrection. They jointly launch guerrilla attacks against the Government. Skulls dance in crematoria and flying-discs flutter in the skies and cry anarchy, resident ghosts gossip and prattle, and the police is in total confusion. Government is forced to surrender and offer a peace proposal to the joint force. This anarchic film dissects almost everything wrong in the city with a cinematic knife sharpened on trenchant farce and fantasy.
Hawa Bodol (2013)
, 2h30Directed by Parambrata Chatterjee
Genres Comedy
Actors Raima Sen, Parambrata Chatterjee, Kaushik Ganguly, Rudranil Ghosh, Kamalika Banerjee, Sudipa Basu
Roles Kaushik Ganguly
Rating64%
The movie revolves around two old school friends, Jeet (Parambrata Chattopadhyay) and Raj (Rudranil Ghosh) who coincidentally came across each after a long time. While Jeet, a partner in a big architect firm, which he inherited from his deceased father-in-law; Raj is a struggling singer in a band. Jeet and Raj were invited to a party of a non-Bengali business client of Jeet, where Raj flirted with the businessman's daughter Inka (Neha Panda). After party, both the friends bought drinks from closed shops and drank in the open. Both of them wished they had each other life. After getting up from sleep, both of them found that their soul has interchanged. Both of the friends were surprised to find themselves in that situation. While both of them tried to be loyal, but found it difficult to live in each other's life. In the meanwhile Raj (in Jeet's body) visited Chandannagar, his home town to meet his parents, which he left years ago to make a career in singing. Even, Jeet (in Raj's body) came to visit his house to see his child. Inka came to stay with Raj (actually Jeet's soul) after she had a fight with her parents. Both the friends tried to manage each other's work. While, Raj gave an interesting solution of using terracotta in bathroom instead of gold plates to the Indonesian clients. Jeet, on the other hand introduced Inka as a lead singer in their band, whose performance was well appreciated. The two friends, decided to get back to each other's life, they repeated the same acts they did on the day they interchanged and were successful in getting back their souls in their own body. The movie ended with Raj going for a trip to Chandannagar to visit his parents.
Laptop (2012)
, 2hDirected by Kaushik Ganguly
Actors Rahul Bose, Churni Ganguly, Saswata Chatterjee, Ananya Chatterjee, Rajesh Sharma, Barun Chanda
Rating69%
Nobel Chor (2011)
, 1h40Directed by Suman Ghosh
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy
Actors Mithun Chakraborty, Soumitra Chatterjee, Roopa Ganguly, Saswata Chatterjee, Sudipta Chakraborty, Arindam Sil
Roles Merchant of memorabilia
Rating65%
The first Asian Nobel Laureate, Rabindranath Tagore, is still revered as an icon in India. On 24 March 2004, his Nobel medal was stolen from Shantiniketan in Bengal, where it was housed in his residence turned museum. Subsequently a nationwide furor started and a massive search operation was put in place to find the guilty. Ultimately the medal was not found and the Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) dropped the case in 2010. With this in the backdrop "Nobel Chor" (The Nobel Thief is a fictional account of a poor farmer, Bhanu, who circumstantially gets involved in the theft. He decides to embark on a journey to the City of Joy – Kolkata – to return or sell the prize with a view to improve his own quality of life as well as that of his impoverished village.
Jiyo Kaka (2011)
Directed by Parambrata Chatterjee
Actors Rudranil Ghosh, Saswata Chatterjee, Arunoday Banerjee - Rahul, Kaushik Ganguly, Rituparna Sengupta, Biswanath Basu
Rating14%
Just Another Love Story (2010)
, 2h8Directed by Kaushik Ganguly, Rituparno Gosh
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Rituparno Gosh, Jisshu Sengupta, Indraneil Sengupta, Raima Sen, Churni Ganguly, Arindam Sil
Roles Chapal Bhaduri's crude neighbor
Rating68%
The film is about Abhiroop Sen (Rituparno Ghosh), a Delhi-based transgender documentary filmmaker, whose bisexual lover is the cinematographer (Indraneil Sengupta) of the film. They visit Kolkata to make a documentary on the life of the real-life legendary jatra actor Chapal Bhaduri, who in his heyday was known as 'Chapal Rani', noted for his portrayal of female roles on the stage at a time when women did not perform on stage.