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Samrat Chakrabarti is a Actor and Sound Indian born on 22 august 1975 at London (United-kingdom)
Samrat Chakrabarti (Bengali: সম্রাট চক্রবর্তী) (born 22 August 1975) is a British-American film actor and musician of Indian descent.
Born in London, England to Indian Hindu Bengali immigrant parents from Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He performed in Indian community functions in Boston, Massachusetts, where he was exposed to music, poetry and the plays of Rabindranath Tagore.
Acting career
Having acted all through school, Chakrabarti's feature film debut came in 2004 in Spike Lee's She Hate Me. Early in his career, he starred opposite Molly Shannon in The Wedding Weekend and then in Manish Acharya's Loins of Punjab Presents. He also had a role in the Australian film, The Waiting City. His film, The War Within, was nominated for an Indie Spirit Award while Bombay Summer, starring Tannishtha Chatterjee won Best Film at the 2009 MIAAC Film Festival. Chakrabarti starred opposite Rebecca Hazelwood in Kissing Cousins and made an appearance in the Yash Raj-produced Bollywood film, New York. Chakrabarti played the character Rishi, a menacing gangster in Ajay Naidu’s Ashes. He will be seen soon in Murder in the Dark, produced by Napoleon Dynamite’s Chris Wyatt.
Chakrabarti has also appeared in television productions. He has appeared on In Treatment (HBO) as Irrfan Khan’s son, 30 Rock (NBC) opposite Alec Baldwin, Bored to Death (HBO), Law & Order: Criminal Intent (NBC) opposite Chris Noth, Law & Order (NBC), Love Monkey (CBS), The Sopranos (HBO) and All My Children. Chakrabarti was a recurring character on FX’s Damages opposite Ted Danson.
Music career
Samrat Chakrabarti is also an established international musician. In 1994, he founded Brandeis University's award-winning all male a cappella group, VoiceMale, for which he continues to contribute arrangements and original compositions, including "Please Don't Go," which appears on the album Suit Up and arrangements for the national a cappella compilation Voices Only 2009. He won a U.S. CARA for Best Original Pop/Rock Song for his composition "What's It all About". He is a former member of the a cappella group Five O' Clock Shadow. He was also a part of the group The Hyannis Sound. In 1998, Chakrabarti produced an untitled album for his musical group, JYDE, and composed the song "Startving".
Chakrabarti has also composed the theme song "Dhol Beat" for Loins of Punjab, the and Sundaram Tagore’s Natvar Bhavsar: Poetics of Color.
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Early lifeBorn in London, England to Indian Hindu Bengali immigrant parents from Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He performed in Indian community functions in Boston, Massachusetts, where he was exposed to music, poetry and the plays of Rabindranath Tagore.
Acting career
Having acted all through school, Chakrabarti's feature film debut came in 2004 in Spike Lee's She Hate Me. Early in his career, he starred opposite Molly Shannon in The Wedding Weekend and then in Manish Acharya's Loins of Punjab Presents. He also had a role in the Australian film, The Waiting City. His film, The War Within, was nominated for an Indie Spirit Award while Bombay Summer, starring Tannishtha Chatterjee won Best Film at the 2009 MIAAC Film Festival. Chakrabarti starred opposite Rebecca Hazelwood in Kissing Cousins and made an appearance in the Yash Raj-produced Bollywood film, New York. Chakrabarti played the character Rishi, a menacing gangster in Ajay Naidu’s Ashes. He will be seen soon in Murder in the Dark, produced by Napoleon Dynamite’s Chris Wyatt.
Chakrabarti has also appeared in television productions. He has appeared on In Treatment (HBO) as Irrfan Khan’s son, 30 Rock (NBC) opposite Alec Baldwin, Bored to Death (HBO), Law & Order: Criminal Intent (NBC) opposite Chris Noth, Law & Order (NBC), Love Monkey (CBS), The Sopranos (HBO) and All My Children. Chakrabarti was a recurring character on FX’s Damages opposite Ted Danson.
Music career
Samrat Chakrabarti is also an established international musician. In 1994, he founded Brandeis University's award-winning all male a cappella group, VoiceMale, for which he continues to contribute arrangements and original compositions, including "Please Don't Go," which appears on the album Suit Up and arrangements for the national a cappella compilation Voices Only 2009. He won a U.S. CARA for Best Original Pop/Rock Song for his composition "What's It all About". He is a former member of the a cappella group Five O' Clock Shadow. He was also a part of the group The Hyannis Sound. In 1998, Chakrabarti produced an untitled album for his musical group, JYDE, and composed the song "Startving".
Chakrabarti has also composed the theme song "Dhol Beat" for Loins of Punjab, the and Sundaram Tagore’s Natvar Bhavsar: Poetics of Color.
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Viceroy's House (2017)
Directed by Gurinder Chadha
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Om Puri, Michael Gambon, Huma Qureshi, Manish Dayal
Roles Mohsin
Rating66%
About the inside life of the Viceroy's House in 1947 during the Partition of India.
Wiener-Dog (2016)
Directed by Todd Solondz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs
Actors Greta Gerwig, Brie Larson, Julie Delpy, Kieran Culkin, Zosia Mamet, Danny DeVito
Roles Doctor
Rating58%
Le portrait d’un teckel et de tous ceux auxquels il apporte un bref instant de bonheur au cours de son voyage.
Unfreedom (2015)
Directed by Raj Amit Kumar
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Political films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Victor Banerjee, Adil Hussain, Bhanu Uday, Preeti Gupta, Ankur Vikal, Seema Rahmani
Roles Anees
Rating50%
Set in two different cities, New York and New Delhi, the film approaches sexuality and violence head on with a focus on the Muslim and LGBT identities.
Beyond the Mask (2015)
, 1h43Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about religion
Actors John Rhys-Davies, Kara Killmer, Adetokumboh McCormack, Steve Blackwood, Samrat Chakrabarti
Roles Basil
Rating51%
The film follows William Reynolds, an assassin for the British East India Company. To redeem his past and earn the heart of the woman he loves, he must aid in the cause of the colonists during the American Revolution.
The Ladies of the House (2015)
, 1h33Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Brina Palencia, Belladonna, Samrat Chakrabarti
Roles Derek
Rating46%
Jacob (Gabriel Horn), his brother Kai (RJ Hanson), and their friend Derrick (Samrat Chakrabarti) have decided that the best way to celebrate Kai's birthday is to go to a strip club. Kai ends up taking a liking to one of the strippers, Ginger (Belladonna), and they decide to follow her home. Upon discovering them, Ginger decides to invite them inside for some drinks. Kai and Ginger are sent into a closet to play seven minutes in heaven, which ends with Kai accidentally killing her. Before the boys can leave, Ginger's roommates return home, and after seeing Ginger, they decide that they will hunt and kill the three men. They soon find that Ginger's roommates are cannibals that are intent on turning the three of them into several meals.
Vishwaroopam (2013)
, 2h29Directed by Kamal Haasan
Genres Thriller, Action, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films, Films about terrorism
Actors Rahul Bose, Kamal Haasan, Pooja Kumar, Andrea Jeremiah, Shekhar Kapur, Jaideep Ahlawat
Roles Deepak Chatterjee
Rating78%
The film opens in a rundown pigeon shop in New York City where an old man feeds them. He then sends one pigeon away. It flies high and lands in a skyscraper off the office window of a psychologist who is conducting a session with her client Nirupama (Pooja Kumar), a nuclear oncologist, who begins to confide that hers was a marriage of convenience that provided a safe haven for pursuing her PhD in the U.S.A. for past three years and that her husband Vishwanath alias Viz (Kamal Haasan) is a middle-aged Kathak teacher. She is also put off by Viz's effeminate bearing and is attracted to her boss, Deepankar (Samrat Chakrabarti). Doubting whether her husband has secrets of his own, she hires a private investigator to tail him to probe grounds for divorce. She learns from the private investigator that Viz is a Muslim. In a sudden turn of events, the investigator is killed in a sea-side warehouse by Farukh, a prominent member of the terrorist outfit led by Omar (Rahul Bose). A diary on him gives away Nirupama and the terror group led by Farukh nabs the couple. Deepankar is later killed by Farukh's men.
Midnight's Children (2012)
, 2h28Directed by Deepa Mehta
Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Actors Satya Bhabha, Shriya Saran, Shabana Azmi, Anupam Kher, Siddharth, Ronit Roy
Roles Wee Willie Winkle
Rating61%
L'histoire de deux enfants nés au moment de l'indépendance de l'Inde en 1947.
Price Check (2012)
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Parker Posey, Eric Mabius, Melinda Page Hamilton, Annie Parisse, Josh Pais, Edward Herrmann
Roles Eddie
Rating55%
Pete Cozy (Eric Mabius) has found himself a house in the suburbs and a job in the pricing department of a middling supermarket chain. Pete's job allows him to spend quality time with his wife (Annie Parisse) and young son and, despite the fact that they are drowning in debts, they appear happy.
Desperate Endeavors (2012)
, 1h50Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Samrat Chakrabarti, Gulshan Grover, Lavrenti Lopes, Geeta Citygirl, Robert Clohessy, Kristina Klebe
Rating69%
A 1970s New York City setting finds Indian-born immigrant Ram Patel trying to establish himself in the turbulent city-life where he encounters various hurdles that prevent him from obtaining his goals of becoming successful and wealthy. The pursuit of the American dream becomes littered with pot-holes for the earnest protagonist Ram Patel. Arriving from the airport to stay with a family
Gangor (2011)
, 1h32Genres Drama
Actors Priyanka Bose, Adil Hussain, Samrat Chakrabarti, Seema Rahmani, Tillomata Shome
Roles Ujan
Rating60%
Upin, a veteran photo-journalist comes to Purulia in West Bengal to report on the violence against the poor tribal women in the impoverished region. There he comes across Gangor breast-feeding her child. He photographs her using one of the pictures for his news report. The picture triggers a backlash as she is shunned by the villagers. The policemen take her forcibly to the police station and gang rape her. In the meantime, Upin realizes his folly and haunted by the hushed-up violence travels back to Purulia to look for her. Gangor is no longer there and no one has her whereabouts. Determined to find her out Upin presses on his search and one night meets her, who has now become a prostitute. Gangor asks him to photograph her again taking off her blouse to reveals how her body was mutilated by the policemen during gang-rape. Upin runs away from her falling on the railway track and comes under the wheels of train. As the incident comes to the attention media, Gangor’s case reaches court. On the day of the hearing of her case, a group of tribal women led by activist Medha take off their blouses on the court premises to mark their protest against the police brutality.
Walkaway (2010)
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Manu Narayan, Samrat Chakrabarti, Manish Dayal, Pallavi Sharda, Deepti Gupta, Geeta Citygirl
Roles Shridhar
Rating53%
Four intersecting stories, each exploring different aspects of love and companionship, as four friends struggle to find their way through the meanders of Indian matrimony, in a bittersweet attempt to combine their deep-rooted tradition and 'modern' New York life in perfect harmony.
The Waiting City (2010)
, 1h40Directed by Claire McCarthy
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Radha Mitchell, Joel Edgerton, Samrat Chakrabarti, Isabel Lucas, Tillomata Shome, Barun Chanda
Roles Krishna
Rating61%
Fiona (Radha Mitchell) and Ben (Joel Edgerton) are a couple from Australia—she is a successful, self-starting lawyer while he is a relaxed, easy-going musician. Fiona and Ben, who want to adopt a child, travel to India for what they imagine will be a quick and simple process. However, once they arrive in Calcutta (now Kolkata) they learn that little happens quickly in India, and for all the promises that have been made, they begin to doubt whether they will be able to complete the final stages of the adoption process.
Dwando (2009)
Directed by Suman Ghosh
Actors Soumitra Chatterjee, Ananya Chatterjee, Kaushik Sen, Samrat Chakrabarti
Roles Rana
Rating67%
Sudipta is married for 10 years to Anik but the couple don't have any child and the marriage has turned cold. When Anik is away for an office trip, Sudipta gets attracted towards a young NRI Rana. Anik comes back and suspects something wrong.
New York (2009)
, 2h33Directed by Ali Abbas Zafar, Kabir Khan, Ali Zafar
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Films based on the September 11 attacks, Films about music and musicians, Films about terrorism, Musical films, Bollywood, Disaster films, Films about hijackings
Actors Irrfan Khan, John Abraham, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Katrina Kaif, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Samrat Chakrabarti
Roles Yakub
Rating67%
New York begins in the United States in 2008, with the arrest by the FBI of Omar Aijaz (Neil Nitin Mukesh) after guns were found in the trunk of a taxi cab he owned. Omar, a young Muslim man originally from Delhi, is then taken into custody and interrogated by FBI Agent Roshan (Irrfan Khan) (also a Muslim man originally from South Asia who has been living in the United States for twenty years). Omar then discovers that he was set up by the FBI in order to force him to spy on a former college friend, Samir Shaikh (John Abraham), whom he hasn't seen in seven years and who the FBI believes is a terrorist. In the process, Omar discovers that Sam has married Maya (Katrina Kaif) (a mutual friend whom Omar had a crush on in university) and finds out that Samir and Maya have a young son, Danyal (Aidan Wagner).
Kissing Cousins (2008)
, 1h38Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality
Actors Samrat Chakrabarti, Lauren Stamile, Jaleel White, P. J. Byrne, Gerry Bednob, David Alan Grier
Roles Amir
Rating55%
Amir is a professional heartbreaker (people hire him to break up with their boyfriend/girlfriend when they don't want to do it themselves). At Amir's 30th birthday party, his childhood friend Charlie announces that he is getting married, but he and his fiance decide they don't want Amir to be the best man because of his bad "relationship karma". This depresses him, as do the relationship advice books he receives as gifts. Amir goes to visit his family for Thanksgiving and meets Zara, his attractive British cousin, who he hasn't seen in twenty years. Amir's mother persuades him to take Zara back to her home in Southern California, since she is in the United States traveling.