Mithun Chakraborty

Mithun Chakraborty Biography

Basic Details

• Full Name: Gouranga Chakraborty
• Popular Name: Mithun Chakraborty (also called “Mithun Da”)
• Date of Birth: 16 June 1950
• Birthplace: Calcutta (now Kolkata), West Bengal, India
• Nationality: Indian
• Occupations: Actor, producer, entrepreneur, television presenter, politician
• Years Active: 1976 – present

Early Life & Education

• Born into a Bengali Hindu family in Calcutta to Basanta Kumar Chakraborty and Shanti Rani Chakraborty.
• Studied at Oriental Seminary, then dropped out of Scottish Church College, Kolkata, during the second year of a B.Sc. in Chemistry.
• Graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune.
• Was associated with the Naxalite movement and with the CPI(ML) until 1976, before turning to films.

Personal Life

• Married actress Helena Luke in 1979; the couple separated after about four months and divorced.
• Married actress Yogeeta Bali later in 1979.

Children

• Mahaakshay (Mimoh) Chakraborty
• Ushmey Chakraborty
• Namashi Chakraborty
• Dishani Chakraborty (adopted daughter)

Mithun Chakraborty – Career Highlights

1976 – Breakthrough Debut: Made his acting debut in Mrinal Sen’s art-house drama Mrigayaa, winning the National Film Award for Best Actor — he remains the only actor to have won that award for a debut film.

1978 – Bengali breakthrough: Nadi Theke Sagare gave him his first major breakthrough role in Bengali cinema.

1982 – Global Fame: Disco Dancer was a major box-office success in India and in the Soviet Union, where it created a craze comparable to Raj Kapoor’s.

1980s–1990s – Box Office Success: Starred in hits including Kasam Paida Karne Wale Ki (1984), Pyar Jhukta Nahin (1985), Dance Dance (1987), Commando (1988) and Agneepath (1990), the last of which won him the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor. He appeared in Box Office India’s “Top Actors” list four times between 1985 and 1988.

1990s – Parallel Cinema & National Awards: Balanced commercial films with Tahader Katha and Swami Vivekananda, which brought him the National Film Award for Best Actor (1993) and for Best Supporting Actor (1996) respectively.

2007 onwards – Return to prominence: Mani Ratnam’s Guru (2007) brought critical acclaim and a Filmfare nomination, followed by the blockbusters Golmaal 3 (2010), Housefull 2 and OMG – Oh My God! (2012) and Kick (2014). He debuted in Telugu and Tamil cinema in 2015 with Gopala Gopala and Yagavarayinum Naa Kaakka, and in Kannada cinema in 2018 with The Villain.

Television: Developed the concept of Dance India Dance and served as its Grand Master and head judge, and was grand master of Dance India Dance Li’l Masters. He hosted Dadagiri Unlimited on Zee Bangla, co-judged Dance Dance Junior (2021) and Hunarbaaz: Desh Ki Shaan (2022), and returned to Dance Bangla Dance as Mahaguru between 2023 and 2025.

2022 – The Kashmir Files: Played a retired IAS officer in Vivek Agnihotri’s The Kashmir Files, a major box-office success that earned him a Filmfare Best Supporting Actor nomination. The same year he starred in the Bengali blockbuster Projapoti and made his digital debut in Prime Video’s Bestseller.

Around 350 Films: Has appeared in roughly 350 films, mostly in Hindi and Bengali, with credits in Bhojpuri, Telugu, Odia, Tamil, Kannada and other languages.

Business and public roles: Owns the Monarch Group and the production house Paparatzy Productions, co-founded the CINTAA welfare trust in 1992 with Dilip Kumar and Sunil Dutt, and chaired the Film Studios Setting & Allied Mazdoor Union.

Politics: Nominated to the Rajya Sabha by the Trinamool Congress in 2014 and served until resigning in December 2016. Joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on 7 March 2021.

Mithun Chakraborty – Recent Activity

• Played the title role in the Bengali film Kabuliwala (2023), which won him a Filmfare Award Bangla for Best Actor (Critics’).
• Starred in Shastri (October 2024) and the Bengali legal drama Shontaan (December 2024).
• His film Riwaj released directly on ZEE5 in 2025.
• Appeared in Vivek Agnihotri’s The Bengal Files, released on 5 September 2025.
• Reunited with Dev for Projapati 2, released on 25 December 2025.
• Was hospitalised in February 2024 after a stroke and was discharged two days later.

Mithun Chakraborty Awards List