Ajoy Bandyopadhyay
Acting
Biography
An Indian Bengali Actor who worked in films like Sonar Kella (1974), Hirak Rajar Deshe (1980), Seemabaddha (1971), etc.
Known For
Crossroads
A gritty political thriller set at the backdrop of the violent Naxalite movement in 70’s Calcutta.
Daughter of the Sun
A jobless imaginative artist finds his fantasies when a sculpture he creates comes to life every night.
Stree
During the liberation of India, an old-fashioned man must examine his priorities.
The Kingdom of Diamonds
When Goopy and Bagha learn about Hirak Raja's tyranny, they try to set him right with the help of Udayan, a school teacher, and their magical powers.
Sriman Prithviraj
Social comedy about two young newlyweds against the backdrop of pre-Independence Bengal.
The Golden Fortress
A young boy becomes a target for crooks, after he claims to remember his past life and mentions precious jewels in a golden fortress.
Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne
Goopy Gyne and Bagha Byne are banished from their respective villages for being bad musicians. However, with their skills, they succeed in pleasing the king of ghosts who grants them three boons. How will they succeed in preventing the war between Halla and Shundi which is looming large?
Swayamsiddha
Synopsis::: Chandi is a village girl. She is bold, brave, and extremely courageous. She is the protector of the underdog and punishes the wrongdoers of society in her own way. The zamindar of the estate witnesses Chandi at her act of justice and decides to marry her to his younger son. However, his wife opposes as Chandi hails from a not-so-rich household and proposes her marriage to the elder son Gobindo, a mentally challenged man and the son of Zamindar’s late first wife.
Chorus
A small company advertises for 100 vacancies and 30,000 apply. The applicants are all from the ranks of the poor and there is a virtual riot. Everyone around is seeking for opportunities. Among them are the applicants who desperately need the job, the photographer who is busy seeking a scoop, the village moneylender who is busy exploiting the poor, the ineffective police, the employers who are advertising posts even while a six month old strike has nearly caused the workmen to become destitute. It is a story of society captured in a tiny framework of a small business. Ultimately, the workmen, the unemployed and the farmers all get to gether to protest against this exploitation.
Distance
Though he has managed to become a professor at an early age, a supposedly liberal young man has neglected developing his relationship skills. Even though he forms an attachment to a young woman whom he had been helping with the task of finding work and even marries her, he is appalled to learn that she is pregnant with another man's child. At the same time, his political convictions have been put to the test, and he has effectively shown that he was not as serious about them as he (and others) thought he was. Disappointed in himself and in his life, he leaves his new bride and attempts to find consolation in an affair.
Filmography
as Comedian
as Teacher
as Shopworker
as Amiyanath Burman
as Mr. Bardhan
as Amit's Senior
as Visitor to Halla