Mithun Chakraborty

About Mithun Chakraborty

Mithun Chakraborty is an actor and supporting actor working in Hindi cinema and Bengali cinema. Clapnumber holds 316 titles for Mithun Chakraborty, from Do Anjaane in 1976 to Fauzi in 2026. By decade, that is 11 in the 1970s, 110 in the 1980s, 86 in the 1990s, 56 in the 2000s, 34 in the 2010s and 15 in the 2020s. Those titles are mostly drama, thriller and family.

Biography

Gourang Chakraborty (born 16 June 1950), better known by his stage name Mithun Chakraborty (informally referred to as Mithun Da), is an Indian film actor, singer, producer, writer, social worker, entrepreneur, television presenter and a former Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament.[2][3] He is the recipient of two Filmfare Awards and three National Film Awards. He made his acting debut with the art house drama Mrigayaa (1976), for which he won his first National Film Award for Best Actor.[4] Chakraborty played Jimmy in the 1982 film Disco Dancer, which was commercially successful in India and the Soviet Union and Russia. Besides Disco Dancer, Chakraborty is also remembered for his performance in films such as Suraksha, Saahas, Wardat, Wanted, Boxer, Pyar Jhukta Nahi, Pyari Behna, Avinash, Dance Dance, Prem Pratigya, Mujrim, Agneepath, Yugandhar, The Don and Jallad. In 1991, he won the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Krishnan Iyer Nariyal Paniwala in the film Agneepath. He later won two more National Film Awards for his performances in Tahader Katha (1992) and Swami Vivekananda (1998).[4] Chakraborty has appeared in more than 350 films, including Bengali, Hindi, Odia, Bhojpuri, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Punjabi[5] pictures.