Dhritiman Chatterjee (b. 1946)
Actor. Played the unemployed youth, Siddhartha, in Ray’s Pratidwandi and the Naxalite in Sen?’s Padatik, making him the icon of Calcutta’s middle-class sense of uncertainty after the late 60s agitations of the CPI(ML), echoing Bikash Bhattacharya’s paintings of aimless youths wandering through Calcutta and Mahashweta Devi’s fictional descriptions of the time. Acted in Aparna Sen’s 36 Chowringhee Lane and in Ray’s Ganashatru and Agantuk. Does films as amateur alongside a career in advertising.
FILMOGRAPHY: 1970: Pratidwandi; 1972: Picnic; 1973: Padatik; 1974: Jadu Bansha; 1977: Abirvab; 1980: Akaler Sandhaney; 1981: 36 Chowringhee Lane; 1982:Canvas; 1983: Tanaya; Ka Lawei Ha Ki Ktijong Ngi (also d); 1989: Ganashatru; 1991: Agantuk; 1993: Sunya Theke Suru.