
Barisal, Bengal Presidency, British India
(29 March 1929 – 19 August 1993) was an Indian actor, director, and writer-playwright. He was primarily an actor in Bengali theatre, where he became a pioneering figure in Modern Indian theatre, when he founded the "Little Theatre Group" in 1949. This group enacted many English, Shakespearean and Brecht plays, in a period now known as the "Epic theatre" period, before it immersed itself completely in highly political and radical theatre. His plays became an apt vehicle for the expression of his Marxist ideologies, visible in socio-political plays such as Kallol (1965), Manusher Adhikar, Louha Manob (1964), Tiner Toloar and Maha-Bidroha. He also acted in over 100 Bengali and Hindi films in a career spanning 40 years, and remains most known for his roles in films such as Mrinal Sen’s Bhuvan Shome (1969), Satyajit Ray’s Agantuk (1991), Gautam Ghose’s Padma Nadir Majhi (1992) and Hrishikesh Mukherjee's breezy Hindi comedies such as Gol Maal (1979) and Rang Birangi (1983).[1][2][3][4] He also did the role of a sculptor, Sir Digindra Narayan, in the episode Seemant Heera of Byomkesh Bakshi (TV series) on Doordarshan in 1993, shortly before his death.
as Jamaal Saab

as Maharaja
1965
1984

as Jamaal Saab
1988

as The Priest / Postman / Beggar
1988

as Prof. Gupta
1971

as Bishwanath 'Bishu' Bose
1976

as Bhavani Shankar
1979

1977

as Sitesh Pyne
1976

as Mr. Bhattacharya (Usha's father)
1975

as Bhavani Shankar Bajpai
1981

as Jagdishbhai
1982
1995

as Self (archive footage)
2005

1995

1995

as Hossain Miah
1993

as Biplab Panja
1992

1992

1992
1991

as Manomohan Mitra
1991

1991

1991

1991

as MLA Goverdhan Verma
1990

as Grandfather
1990

1990

as Sadanand Chaudhary
1989

1989
1989

as The Priest / Postman / Beggar
1988

1988
1988

1988

as Bhujang Chaudhary
1988

as Jamaal Saab
1988