Happy Birthday: Srijit Mukherji

Srijit Mukherji is an Indian film director, actor, screenwriter as well as an well established THEATRE PERSONALITY. Srijit had been involved with theatre since his days at Jawaharlal Nehru University, where he did his Masters and MPhil in Economics , while working as an economist and statistician, he was actively involved with the English professional theatre circuit in Delhi and Bangalore.He quit his job to actively pursue theatre and films . He has acted in ‘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 ‘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 Bangalore, after working in different theatre groups, Srijit started his own group Pandora's Act in 2007, whose first production,’Feluda Pherot!’ at ‘Rangashankara’ in July 2008 was a runaway success and was the first ever non-canonical dramatisation of Satyajit Ray's sleuth Feluda. that had Parambrata Chatterjee and Barun Chanda in its cast, was successful enough for him to think of changing his profession. But Srijit was also eyeing the world of celluloid. After hearing about the demand for talented script writers in Bengal from Parambrata, he landed in Calcutta with 10 scripts for films, tele-films and plays. The only play he staged in Calcutta was ‘Checkmate’ in 2009.