Avijit Dutt is an Indian filmmaker, actor, theater director and communications consultant. Living and working out of Kolkata. He has done his masters from Calcutta University in English Literature and began his career at an English Faculty in St. Paul's School, Darjeeling.

Avijit Dutt
NationalityIndian
Alma materCalcutta University, West Bengal, India
OccupationActor,
Years active1972–present

As a theatre director and actor he has done over 100 plays in English, Hindi & Bengali. He has written six full-length plays: - Bamboo Flower - Mahatma Mar Gaya - Bombay! Bosnia! - Breaking News - Noor Jahan- An Empress Reveals - Unspeakable - 9.45 ki Express ki Citee He has also dramatised 1084 ki Ma, by Mahasweta Devi, with Shyamanand Jalan.

He launched the Childline with UNICEF & National Human Rights Commission.

Dutt, has played noted roles in Hollywood movies like Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love, Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel etc. He has also acted in Madras Cafe as a R&AW (Research and Analysis Wing) officer, in Jolly LLB2 as state police head and in No One Killed Jessica as a defense lawyer amongst many. He has also been in a lot of Webseries on Netflix, Amazon Prime etc. He is, perhaps, the only actor to have two patents applied for, for a toilet solution & Health Care. His organisation, Enable, of which Dutt is Chief Motivator and Director, has built toilets across north India, though not the one he had patented, the second patent is for a process of collecting, testing and documenting blood tests for rural areas. They have covered over 60000 beneficiaries across 68 villages in India.[1]

He has also been a TED Talks speaker at various events.

Filmography

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Films

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Year Film Role Notes
1996 Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love Vazir, The King's Prime Minister
1996 Fire Julie's father
2004 Bow Barracks Forever Melville
2004 Chai Pani Etc. Mr. Bose
2005 Amu Neel
2006 The Bong Connection Actor
2010 Peepli Live Boss of English TV Channel
2011 No One Killed Jessica BM Pandit
2011 Gandhi to Hitler MK Gandhi
2013 Madras Cafe Swarup
2015 The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Nimish
2015 Piku Bodo Mesho
2016 Land of the Gods Sunder
2017 Jolly LLB 2 VK Paul
2017 Kashmir Father
2017 The Complaint The Old Man
2018 2.0 Dr. Sam Tamil film
2021 Hum Do Hamare Do Jagmohan Deewan
2023 Mission Majnu Morariji Desai Netflix Original

Web series

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Year Title Role Platform Notes
2019 The Verdict – State vs Nanavati V. K. Krishna Menon ALTBalaji and ZEE5
2019 Inside Edge Season 2&3 Basu Amazon Prime
2019 Delhi Crime Gururaj Dixit Netflix
2019 Hostages (web series) Iman Roy Hotstar
2019 Abhay (TV series) Kunal Kemmu Zee5
2023 Tooth Pari: When Love Bites Ian Zachariah[2] Netflix
2023 Made in Heaven (TVseries) Judge P.S Murthy [3] Prime Video

References

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  1. ^ indianexpress.com
  2. ^ "Avijit Dutt | Actor". IMDb.
  3. ^ "Made in Heaven". IMDb.
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