Birsa Dasgupta

Birsa Dasgupta (born 2 November 1979) is an Indian Bengali film director based in Tollywood. He has directed films such as Shudhu Tomari Jonyo, Gangster, Mukhosh and Byomkesh O Durgo Rahasya.

Early life Born in Kolkata, his grandfather was documentary filmmaker Harisadhan Dasgupta, and grandmother was screenwriter Sonali (Senroy) Dasgupta, who later married Italian film director, Roberto Rossellini. His father is film director Raja Dasgupta, while his mother is television presenter and actress Chaitali Dasgupta. Ribhu Dasgupta is his only brother. He did his class 10 from South End School and class 12 from Delhi.

Personal life Birsa married Bengali actress, Bidipta Chakraborty. Birsa adopted Bidipta's daughter Meghna from her first marriage as his own. Birsa and Bidipta together have a daughter Ida Dasgupta who was a child artist in the film Shob Bhooturey.

Career Intending to learn film making, Dasgupta left his graduation midway and moved to Mumbai. Here he started assisting in serials and films. Thereafter, he started making fillers and promos for the newly established audiovisual division of publishing house, MiD DAY. In 2003, he became a unit director in Anurag Kashyap's film Black Friday (2004), though the film's release was stalled for further three years as it ran into troubles with Indian Censor Board. Nevertheless, the music video Dasgupta directed for the song Arey Ruk Ja Re Bandeh of the film soundtrack album, performed by band Indian Ocean, got him noticed.

Eventually, Dasgupta made his feature film debut with, 033 in 2010. 033 is the STD code for Kolkata city, and the film was incidentally based on the theme of increasing youth migration outside Kolkata for career opportunities. Indraadip Das Gupta Shree Venkatesh Films

Golpo Holeo Shotti Indraadip Das Gupta Shree Venkatesh Films Remake of Pizza

2015 Shudhu Tomari Jonyo Arindom Chatterjee Shree Venkatesh Films Remake of Raja Rani

2016 Gangster Arindom Chatterjee Shree Venkatesh Films

One Arindom Chatterjee Shree Venkatesh Films Remake of Thani Oruvan

Shob Bhooturey Subho Pramanik Shree Venkatesh Films

2018 Crisscross JAM8 Shree Venkatesh Films Based on novel of same name by Smaranjit Chakraborty

2019 Bibaho Obhijaan Jeet Gannguli Shree Venkatesh Films

2021 Mukhosh Shree Venkatesh Films Remake of Anjaam Pathiraa

2023 Byomkesh O Durgo Rahasya Diptarka Bose Dev Entertainment Ventures, Shadow Films Based on Byomkesh Bakshi by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay

Web series

Television series Mahanayak (TV series) was a Bengali television drama series on June 27, 2016, on Star Jalsha . The series starred Prosenjit Chatterjee, Paoli Dam, Tanushree Chakraborty, Priyanka Sarkar, Manali Dey, Biswanath Basu and Biswajit Chakraborty in lead roles.