Koushik Kar

Koushik Kar (; born 1984) is an Indian Bengali actor and theatre director. He started his professional acting in the year 2010 as a Minerva Repertory Theatre actor, in kolkata. His first performance was in the play Raja Lear in which the celebrated Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee was in the lead. His work Ma Ak Nirbhik Sainik (2013) as a director and actor was officially selected in 17th Bharat Rang Mahotsav, 2015. His direction and acting in various plays over the years rendered him as a well known theatre personality in contemporary Bengali theatre community and audiences.

He made his acting debut in the Bengali feature film Lorai: Play to Live (2012). Among other appearances his latest one was in the Bengali horror flick Shob Bhooturey (2017) directed by Birsa Dasgupta.

Theatre After starting his career as a Minerva repertory actor with the play Raja Lear in 2010, he subsequently acted in Devi Sarpamasta A sword fight scene in this play between Raja Nanda played by Anirban Bhattacharya and Chandragupta played by him was much talked and was also praised by famous writer Sunil Gangopadhyay in an article. His next notable work was Ras (2013) based on the novel of Narendranath Mitra by the same name directed by Sangita Pal. He got Sayak Samman - 2015 in the best actor category for his acting in this play. Some other important mention of him as an actor till now is -Boma (2015) directed by Bratya Basu, Indur o Manush (2016) by Debasis Biswas, Raja Oedipus (2016) by Rajesh Debnath etc.

In 2013 he got into direction with the play Ma Ak Nirbhik Sainik based on the novel of Sailen Ghosh by the same name under Howrah Jonaki production. In 2014 he founded his own theatre group Kolkata Rangeela and started to stage the play Ma Ak Nirbhik Sainik under his own Kolkata Rangeela production . The play got selected in the 17th Bharat Rang Mahotsav 2015

Denotes it was initially a Howrah Jonaki Production

Filmography In 2012 in his debut movie Lorai: Play to Live, directed by Parambrata Chatterjee he played one important role of Chipla Mahato he took his first venture as a writer director in a Bengali film Pornomochi. A play by the same name was staged by him back in 2015. The film released in April, 2018.

List of Movies Film Director Character Year Lorai: Play to Live Soumik Haldar 2015 Ebong Kiriti Anirban Paria Ranjan Bose 2016 Byomkesh Pawrbo Arindam Sil Dinesh Boral 2016 Shob Bhooturey Raja Ghosh Bhaben Post-Production Parnomochi Bhoy 2 Suvendu Ghosh 2020 Dwikhondito Nabarun Sen Ritwik 2019 Ek Je Chhilo Raja Srijit Mukherji Servant 2018

TV and web series Mahanayak (TV series), 2016. Swtyaneshi Pather Kanta – Byomkesh Web Series (Season 1 episode 1 as Prafulla Ray) in Hoichoi Originals. Fotash 2024 (Fridaay OTT app)

Awards Sayak Samman 2015 in the category of Best Actor for the play Ras (2013). Sundaram Samman 2015.