Samrat Chakrabarti

Samrat Chakrabarti is a British-American film actor and musician of Indian descent.

He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University.

Career

Acting Chakrabarti appeared in the 2004 Spike Lee film She Hate Me as well as such films as Manish Acharya's Loins of Punjab Presents, and Stray Dolls.

Chakrabarti has also appeared in television productions, including Rescue Me with Denis Leary, Conviction, Law & Order,

In 2025, he attended the world premiere of his zombie film Didn't Die at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

Music Samrat Chakrabarti is also an established international musician. In 1994, he founded Brandeis University's award-winning all male a cappella group, VoiceMale, for which he continues to contribute arrangements and original compositions, including "Please Don't Go," which appears on the album Suit Up and arrangements for the national a cappella compilation Voices Only 2009. He won a U.S. CARA for Best Original Pop/Rock Song for his composition "What's It all About."

Chakrabarti has also composed the theme song "Dhol Beat" for Loins of Punjab, and Sundaram Tagore's Natvar Bhavsar: Poetics of Color.

Filmography Year Title Role Notes 2003 Arya Raj Singh 2004 She Hate Me Ahmad 2005 The War Within Pakistani Interrogator Homecoming Ben 2006 The Bong Connection Rakesh Bengali film2007 Loins of Punjab Presents Trance Sen Karma Calling Rohit Rao Kissing Cousins Amir 2009 Homecoming Ben Bombay Summer Jaidev 2010 Ashes Rishi Gangor Ujan 2011 Desperate Endeavors Adesh Short film 2012 Midnight's Children Wee Willie Winkie Price Check Eddie 2013 Vishwaroopam Deepak Chatterjee Tamil film Vishwaroop Hindi film2014 The Ladies of the House Derek Unfreedom Anees 2015 Beyond the Mask Basil 2016 Wiener-Dog Dr. Farhard Rahman 2017 Viceroy's House Moshin 2018 The Kindergarten Teacher Sanjay Roy Nancy Raj Vishwaroopam 2 Deepak Chatterjee Tamil film Vishwaroop 2 Hindi film 2019 Stray Dolls Sal 2020 I'll Meet You There Dr. Sahil Khan 2021 Leylak Abdul Short film 2025 Didn't Die Hari

Television roles

Videogames Year Title Role2005 SOCOM 3 U.S. Navy SEALs Additional South Asia AO voices Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs: Fireteam Bravo Additional South Asia AO voices 2013 Grand Theft Auto V The Local Population 2014 Far Cry 4 Additional voices