Gaurav Chakrabarty Complete Bio & Career
Chakrabarty had his schooling at the Assembly of God Church School in Kolkata. He subsequently earned a degree in Mass Communication and Videography from St. Xavier's College, Kolkata, and completed his post graduation in Video Editing from the Film and Television Institute of India at Pune.
Gaurav got involved in theatre from a young age as part of the group Charbak, where he not only assisted in the backstage work but also acted as 'Topshe' in the play Apsara Theatre-er Mamla based on Satyajit Ray's thriller of the same name, under the direction of his father, who himself played the role of Feluda. During his St. Xavier's days, he was roped in to play the lead in a documentary on HIV-Aids, Isolation, by teenage filmmaker Sangbit Samaddar, who was at that time, only a Class 12 student of South Point High School.
Gaurav was launched in his first major project, along with his younger sibling Arjun Chakrabarty, in the Star Jalsha mega serial Gaaner Opare produced by Ideas Creations Pvt. Ltd, the production company helmed by the Tollywood hero Prosenjit Chatterjee. Gaaner Opaarey was conceived by the channel as a tribute to the poet laureate Rabindranath Tagore on his 150th birth anniversary and would explore his applicability in the increasingly Westernised modern Bengali society.
Gaurav made his silver screen debut with the film Rang Milanti, a romantic comedy directed by Kaushik Ganguly, that released in September 2011 to wide critical and commercial acclaim. Besides films, Gaurav has been keeping up with his theatre work and can be seen regularly as 'Topshe' in Apsara Theatre-er Mamla.