Mithun Chakraborty is a former Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament.
43 Facts About Mithun Chakraborty
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Mithun Chakraborty is the recipient of three National Film Awards for best actor.
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Mithun Chakraborty played Jimmy in the 1982 film Disco Dancer, which was commercially successful in India and the Soviet Union, the first film in India to gross Rs.
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Mithun Chakraborty later won two more National Film Awards for his performances in Tahader Katha and Swami Vivekananda.
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Mithun Chakraborty has appeared in more than 350 films, including Bengali, Hindi, Odia, Bhojpuri, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Punjabi pictures.
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Mithun Chakraborty is the record holder in the Limca Book of Records for 19 movie releases as lead actor in the year 1989 and the record is still unbroken in Bollywood as of July 2022.
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Mithun Chakraborty owns the Monarch Group, which has interests in the hospitality and educational sectors.
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The television show Dance India Dance where Mithun Chakraborty is the Grand Master has already been entered in the Limca Book of Records and the Guinness World Records.
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Mithun Chakraborty played a crucial role of mediator between Pranab Mukherjee of the Indian National Congress and Mamata Banerjee, winning the Mukherjee the support of Banerjee's party, the All India Trinamool Congress, in the 2012 Indian presidential election.
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Mithun Chakraborty joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on 7 March 2021, ahead of the 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election.
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Mithun Chakraborty was born on 16 June 1952 in Kolkata into a Bengali Hindu Brahmin family of Barisal, East Bengal to Basanta Kumar Chakraborty and Shanti Rani Chakraborty.
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Mithun Chakraborty returned to his family and left the Naxalite fold, even though this posed a grave risk to his own life.
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Mithun Chakraborty made his Bollywood debut with Mrinal Sen's National Award winning film Mrigayaa, for which he won the National Film Award for Best Actor.
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Mithun Chakraborty rose to stardom with the low budget spy film Surakshaa, directed by Ravikant Nagaich.
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Mithun Chakraborty played Bheema in the super-hit multi-starrer Hum Paanch.
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Mithun Chakraborty played dual roles for the first time in Taxi Chor and later played dual roles in 19 films.
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Mithun Chakraborty's comedies included Shaukeen Pasand Apni Apni and Baat Ban Jaye and action films such as Jagir, Jaal, Dilwala, Muddat, Watan Ke Rakhwale, Jeete Hain Shaan Se, Waqt Ki Awaz, Ilaaka, Daata and Guru.
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Mithun Chakraborty made his debut in Bengali cinema with Arabinda Mukhopadhyay's Nadi Theke Sagare which was a major success at box office.
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Mithun Chakraborty had another 100 plus releases in this decade too, starting with Agneepath, which won him the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor.
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Mithun Chakraborty shifted his entire family to Ooty and he constructed The Monarch Hotel.
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Mithun Chakraborty then decided to do movies only to be shot at Ooty and nearby locations and he provided discount rates to the film crew to stay in his hotel as well.
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Once again, the overdose of Mithun Chakraborty releases affected the business as 1998 and 1999 itself had almost 30 releases.
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Mithun Chakraborty operates hotels in Masinagudi and Ooty in Tamil Nadu, Mysore, Siliguri and Kolkata.
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Mithun Chakraborty appeared in Goutam Ghose's Gudia in 1999 as well as Rituparno Ghosh's Titli in 2002.
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Mithun Chakraborty featured in Prasanta Bal's period drama Hindustani Sipahi, based on veteran actor and dramatist Utpal Dutt's Bengali play Ferari Fauj.
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Mithun Chakraborty made a comeback to the mainstream Hindi film industry in 2005 with the film Elaan.
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Mithun Chakraborty was acclaimed for his villainous role in Kalpana Lajmi's Chingaari.
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The last Bengali hits for Mithun Chakraborty were Handa and Bhonda, Nobel Chor and Le Halwa Le.
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Mithun Chakraborty had Entertainment, Hawaizaada and Anil Sharma's Genius as other releases and in 2019, The Tashkent Files directed by Vivek Agnihotri became a sleeper hit.
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Mithun Chakraborty's upcoming movie is multistarrer movie Baap, Behisab and others.
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Mithun Chakraborty was the Grand Master of Dance India Dance Li'l Masters as well as the host of the reality show Dadagiri Unlimited on Zee Bangla channel.
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Mithun Chakraborty replaced Sourav Ganguly as the host of the show.
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Mithun Chakraborty hosted the Bengali version of Bigg Boss and Rannaghore Rockstar on ETV Bangla.
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Mithun Chakraborty made his acting debut on TV with the comedy show The Drama Company.
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Mithun Chakraborty appeared as co-judge in the Star Jalsha's Dance Dance Junior, judged by Tollywood actors, Soham and Srabanti Chatterjee.
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Mithun Chakraborty appeared as a co-judge with Karan Johar and Parineeti Chopra on the reality show titled Hunarbaaz: Desh Ki Shaan, which is premiere on Colors TV from January 2022.
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Mithun Chakraborty joined as a Member of Parliament after he was nominated for the Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament elections by the Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee for her All India Trinamool Congress in the West Bengal Rajya Sabha Assembly Polls which were held on 7 February 2014.
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Mithun Chakraborty joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on 7 March 2021, ahead of the 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Kailash Vijayvargiya.
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Mithun Chakraborty was the ambassador of Panasonic electronics for India back in the late 1980s.
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Mithun Chakraborty was the face of Channel 10, a unit of Bengal Media Pvt.
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Mithun Chakraborty is the face of Manappuram Gold Loan for West Bengal state.
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Mithun Chakraborty first married actress Helena Luke in 1979, but after 4 months of marriage the couple separated and filed for a divorce.
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However, when Mithun Chakraborty refused to leave his wife, Yogeeta Bali, Sridevi ended the romance and Mithun Chakraborty remained with his wife.