Chittaranjan Tripathy
Tripathy while presenting film Courtroom Nautanki in IFFI, 2010
Director of National School of Drama
Assumed office
6 October 2023
Preceded byRamesh Chandra Gaur
Personal details
BornChandabali, Bhadrak, Odisha
NationalityIndian
Height5 ft 7 in (170 cm)
EducationRavenshaw College
University of Hyderabad
National School of Drama
Guildford School of Acting
OccupationActor, director, writer, music director, lyricist

Chittaranjan Tripathy (born in 1971[1]) is an actor, director, writer and music director who predominantly works in Hindi and Odia films. He is best known for his role as Trivedi in the Netflix series Sacred Games.

Early life and education

Tripathy was born in Chandabali in Odisha. He did his graduation from Ravenshaw College, Cuttack & completed his master's in sociology from University of Hyderabad in 1992.[2] Further, he acquired a Diploma in Acting from the prestigious NSD, Delhi in 1996.[3] Actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui was his batchmate there. He has done a specialization course in musical theater direction from Guildford School of Acting, London under a Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship.[4]

Career

In 2007, Tripathy came to the Odia movie industry with his film Dhauli Express, for which he was producer, director, scriptwriter, music director, lyricist and playback singer. The film received three Odisha State Film Awards. He made another movie Mukhyamantri in 2009. Other than this he has made more than 50 plays, including the NSD Rep's premiere production of Taj Mahal Ka Tender (for which he directed as well as wrote lyrics and music).[5][6][7][1] He has directed episodes of television soaps Dhund Legi Manjil Hume, Ye isk he, Jaani Pehchani Si Ajnabi, Mano Ya Na Mano, and Savdhan India.[8] He has acted in Hindi movies Delhi 6, Fantom, Sandar, Talvar, and Tera mera tedha medha.[9] Tripathy has composed over 500 songs for plays.[8] His last success was playing the role of Trivedi in the popular Netflix web-series Sacred Games. He also played the negative character in the latest ALT Balaji and ZEE5 web-series M.O.M - Mission Over Mars (2019). In 2020, he starred in Odia movie Adrushyam made by S3 Movies along with Samaresh Routray, Saanu, Ankita Mishra and Lipsa Mishra.[10]

On 6th October 2023, Chittaranjan Tripathy became the Director of his own alma mater, National School of Drama.[11]

Honours and awards

Filmography

Films

Year Film Role Director Notes
2007 Dhauli Express Chittaranjan Tripathy
2009 Delhi 6 Ramleela Announcer Rakesh Omprakash Mehra
2015 Phantom Prisoner Kabir Khan
2015 Shaandaar Vinay Arora Vikas Bahl
2015 Talvar Meghna Gulzar
2015 Tera Mera Tedha Medha Mangal Chittaranjan Tripathy
2016 Pramod Gupta J.E. Promod Gupta Chittaranjan Tripathy
2017 Shubh Mangal Saavdhan Mudit's father R.S. Prasanna
2017 Mukkabaaz Shravan Railway Boss Anurag Kashyap
2017 Jagga Jasoos Anurag Basu
2018 Prem Kumar: Salesman of the year Firoz Tapas Sargharia
2019 Kanpuriye Dr. Mohan Mishra Ashish Aryan
2020 Indoo Ki Jawani Uncle Pran Loha Abir Sengupta
2022 Dasvi Tandon; IAS officer and Ganga Ram's secretary Tushar Jalota

Television

Year Title Role Network Notes
2018–present Sacred Games Trivedi Netflix
2019 M.O.M. - Mission Over Mars Binayak Mohanty ALTBalaji, ZEE5
2020–present Raktanchal Bechan Singh MX Player
2021- Runaway Lugai Dashrath Pandey MX Player
2023- Farzi Lawyer Kumar Amazon Prime

References

  1. 1 2 Narayanan, Jayashree (10 September 2015). "Theatre is like a stepping stone". Deccan Herald. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
  2. ↑ "Bringing dark deeds to light". The Hindu. 8 September 2006. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
  3. ↑ "Bringing light in the darkness". The Hindu. 22 September 2006. Archived from the original on 29 June 2013. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
  4. ↑ "From Sociology to Theatre and Cinema: Chittaranjan Tripathy Appointed Director of National School of Drama". 19 October 2023.
  5. ↑ kumar, C. Suresh (4 November 2005). "Entertainment Hyderabad / Literature : Plays that struck a chord". The Hindu. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
  6. ↑ "The Taj theatre, tender and timely". The Hindu. 30 November 2007. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
  7. ↑ "Bringing dark deeds to light". The Hindu. 8 September 2006. Archived from the original on 13 October 2007. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
  8. 1 2 "Another Odia Director in Bollywood | OdishaChannel.com". odishachannel.com. 1 June 2014. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
  9. ↑ "୧୧ରେ ରିଲିଜ ହେବ ତେରା ମେରା ତେଢ଼ା ମେଢ଼ା". Dharitri 02/09/2015 Bhubaneswar publication page 11 (in Odia). 2 September 2015. Archived from the original on 4 September 2015. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  10. ↑ "Adrishyam - Official Teaser | Others Movie News - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 6 October 2023.
  11. ↑ "Two months after his play on Tamas was cancelled, theatre artiste Tripathy is NSD director". The Indian Express. 6 October 2023. Retrieved 23 October 2023.


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