Tapas Paul
Acting
Biography
Tapas Paul (29 September 1958 – 18 February 2020) was an Indian actor and politician. One of the most celebrated actors of Bengali cinema, Paul is best known for his on-screen romantic collaboration with Mahua Roy Choudhury and Debashree Roy. He received a Filmfare Award.
Born: September 29, 1958
Place of Birth: Chandannagar, West Bengal, India
Known For
Ghatak
Bijoy moves to Kolkata with his younger brother, Raju, and starts leading a simple life. However, Bijoy is compelled to battle two anti-socials, when they kill Raju to win the elections.
Bhalobasha Bhalobasha
A girl falls in love with a boy, the son of a famous deceased singer. However, the couple faces many obstacles when the girl's father decides to get her married to another man.
Mangal Deep
Best friends Mangal and Deep, both aspiring singers, move to the city in order to make it big. Soon, Deep earns a lot of fame, but Sunil, a rich man, causes a rift between their bromance.
Guru Dakshina
The story revolves around, Jayanta, who hails from a poor family. He was brought up by his Musician teacher a village musician and widowed sister in law. Tapas's brilliant voice earns him accolades and lands him in Kolkata City, where he not only earns fame and fortune but gets romantically involved with Rupa, daughter of a rich but corrupt businessman. It also lands him in trouble.
Dadar Kirti
Advocate Nivaran Chatterjee lives a wealthy lifestyle in a small town with his wife, and three sons. His first son is married, while his second son, Kedarnath, who suffered a head injury, is a little senile, and his third son, Amarnath, is a brilliant student. Amarnath falls in love with Beeni Mukherjee, a good student with an elder dominating sister, Saraswati, who is brilliant. Kedar is attracted to Saraswati but lacks the courage to approach her. Then some of his friends introduce him as a brilliant student and athlete to Saraswati's dad, who approves of him. Kedar meets with Saraswati, who also approves of him, and both are slowly drawn to each other. It will not be long before Saraswati finds out that Kedarnath is a fraud, will give up on him, and will get ready to marry a wealthy Bhagalpur-based man of her father's choice.
Bor Bou Khela
A pretentious marriage.
The Wrestlers
In the pastoral expanse of rural Bengal, in Purulia district, single railroad workers and best friends Balaram (Shankar Chakraborty) and Nemai (Tapas Pal) spend their days wrestling on a hill with little work to speak of because the fact that their flag station has only a couple of trains to be flagged off or signalled to. Wrestling, however, despite its aggression and physical combat, turns into an expression of close bonding for Nimai and Balaram, a bond already established through their complementary work at the flag station. Wrestling, for them, is a way of releasing physical energy and a form of dynamic entertainment.
The Voyeurs
When a Kolkata surveillance specialist and his roommate install a small camera in the home of their beautiful neighbor, they somehow become terror suspects in director Buddhadeb Dasgupta's cutting commentary on CCTV society.
Abodh
Shankar is married to Gauri, but she has the brain of a child and does not accept him as her husband. She changes her behaviour and lives the life of a wife after attending the wedding of her friend.
Shedin Dekha Hoyechilo
The hunt for an eloping couple draws two young people together.
Filmography
as Bhoomi's father
as Ananta Das
as Suryanarayan
as Iqbal
as Manish Chowdhury
as Subrata Sanyal
as Rahul Roy
as Ganesh
as Chunilal
as Nemai
as Ambuj Sen
as Jayanta
as Rabi
as Nityananda
as Arup
as Shankar Singh
as Saheb
as Kedarnath