Actors - Mithun Chakraborty

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Mithun Chakraborty (Bangla: মিঠুন চক্রবর্তী) (June 16, 1947) (original name Gouranga Chakraborty) is a leading actor in the Bollywood. He was born in Chennai and educated at the Scottish Church College, Calcutta, where he studied chemistry. He graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India. He started his film career in a Bengali film made by Mrinal Sen. He shot into national prominence with his films Disco Dancer
, Agneepath and was at one time, regarded as a rival to Amitabh Bachchan.

Mithun not only achieved a lot of commercial success but also tremendous critical acclaim ('winning National Awards thrice'), for his performances in his first film Mrigaya as well as for Bengali films Tahader Katha and Ramakrishna Paramhans), Mithun's statements evidence the humility of one who has 'come up the hard way'.

During the mid 1990s he shifted his focus from the mainstream cinema and went into developing his own movies. These movies were mainly targeted towards people whose social status can at best be described as modest.

He tried to pull out an industry out of this. Initially, he was successful, no doubt, but to have a sustained growth and returns he now needs to pull some other rabbit out of his hat.

In his heyday, earned a huge fan following as a 'dancing star', one who runs a parallel film industry from his South Indian abode of Ooty, is 'God' for a generation of audiences unaware of the Hrithik Roshans and the Sanjay Dutts of this world, who owns an entire chain of hotels in Ooty and one who, was the highest tax payer in the country for five consecutive years, from 1994 to 1999. He has done and continues to do social service all over India.

Filmography

2006 - Guru
(filming)
2005 Lucky- No time for Love
2005 Elaan as Baba Sikander
1997 The Doll as Johnny Mendez
1992 Tahader Katha
1991 Akayla
1991 Po Zakonu Dzhungley
1990 Agneepath as Krishnan Iyer MA
1989 Prem Pratigyaa as Raja
1989 Daata
1989 Ilaaka
1989 Waqt Ki Awaz
1989 Guru
1989 Mujrim
1988 Commando
1988 Param Dharam
1984 Kasam Paida Karne Wale Ki
1982 Disco Dancer
as Jimmy
1976 Mrigayaa as Tribal Hunter

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