Srijit Mukherji

Srijit Mukherji (born September 23, 1977) is an erstwhile Economist, Actor, Director, Lyricist, and Theatrician from the Indian Movie Industry of West Bengal, Kolkata.

Early life

• Srijit Mukherji
  Srijit Mukherji

Srijit completed his schooling from Dolna Day School, Kolkata and South Point High School, Kolkata, before studying Economics at Presidency College. He went on to complete his MA and M Phil in Environmental Economist at Jawaharlal Nehru University, parallelly working as a social scientist in the Urban Transport and Pollution Sector with TERI in New Delhi. He quit his PhD while in his first year, to join IRI Symphony, Bangalore as a econometrician and business analyst. After working in Bangalore, and a brief stint in Milan he quit his job to actively pursue theatre and films.

Career

Even being an erstwhile economist and statistician, he has been actively involved with the English Professional Theatre Circuit in Delhi and Bangalore. Amongst the prominent plays he has acted in are Madness adapted from Paulo Coelho's Veronica Decides To Die; Manoj Mitra's The Orchard of Banchharam; Badal Sircar's The Other Side of History; Sunil Ganguly's Pratidwandi – The Adversary, adapted for the stage from Satyajit Ray's film of the same name and more recently, Lucknow 76. He wrote and directed Mindgame, an Indian adaptation of Reginald Rose's Twelve Angry Men, at the Alliance Francaise De Bangalore in 2006. In April 2008, he formed his own troupe, Pandora’s Act, whose first production, Feluda Pherot! at Rangashankara in July 2008 was a runaway success and was the first ever non-canonical, dramatization of Satyajit Ray’s sleuth Feluda. Barun Chanda, Ray’s leading man in Seemabodhho, and Parambrata Chatterjee, the screen Topshe and film youth icon, starred in this production. He was an assistant director, lyricist and actor in both Anjan Dutt's Madly Bengali and Aparna Sen's Iti Mrinalini, in 2009. In 2010 he directed his debut feature film Autograph and also made his acting debut on Bengali television in the Rituparno Ghosh scripted mega serial Gaaner Opare, produced by Ideas Entertainment.