1. Mithun Chakraborty is a former Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament.
52 Facts About Mithun Chakraborty
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Mithun Chakraborty is the recipient of three National Film Awards and four Filmfare Awards.
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In January 2024, Chakraborty was awarded Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian honour by the Government of India.
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Mithun Chakraborty was awarded India's highest accolade in the field of cinema, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2022, whose announcement came from the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in September 2024.
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Mithun Chakraborty made his acting debut with the art house drama Mrigayaa, directed by Mrinal Sen, for which he won his first National Film Award for Best Actor.
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Mithun Chakraborty gained greater fame with the 1982 film Disco Dancer, which was a major box office success in India and the Soviet Union.
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Besides Disco Dancer, Mithun Chakraborty gained recognition for many other performances as both a lead and character artist.
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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 was the Grand Master, entered in the Limca Book of Records and the Guinness World Records.
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Mithun Chakraborty played a crucial mediating role between Pranab Mukherjee of the Indian National Congress and Mamata Banerjee, winning 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 1950 into a Bengali Hindu family in Calcutta, West Bengal, India 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 Hindi film debut in 1976 with Mrinal Sen's art-house film Mrigayaa, for which he won the National Film Award for Best Actor.
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In 1978, Mithun Chakraborty made his debut in Bengali cinema with Arabinda Mukhopadhyay's romantic blockbuster Nadi Theke Sagare.
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In 1979, Mithun Chakraborty delivered another hit with Ravikant Nagaich's spy thriller Surakksha.
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In 1982, Mithun Chakraborty had a string of successes with Shaukeen, Ashanti, Taqdeer Ka Badshah and Swami Dada.
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Mithun Chakraborty shot to stardom in the same year with B Subhash's dance film Disco Dancer.
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Mithun Chakraborty gained more recognition in 1985 with Vijay Sadanah's romantic drama Pyar Jhukta Nahin, acting opposite Padmini Kolhapure.
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In 1988, Chakraborty reunited with K Bapayya for Pyar Ka Mandir, co-starring Madhavi, Nirupa Roy, Sachin Pilgaonkar, Raj Kiran and Shoma Anand.
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Mithun Chakraborty then appeared alongside Sridevi and Moushmi Chatterjee in the action drama film Waqt Ki Awaz, which too went on to become a hit, followed by moderate successes in Charnon Ki Saugandh and Jeete Hain Shaan Se.
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Mithun Chakraborty began the new decade with average fares, such as Pati Patni Aur Tawaif and Humse Na Takrana, while his most notable release of 1990 was Mukul Anand's action crime film Agneepath alongside Amitabh Bachchan, which although a commercial failure, received highly positive response from critics and won him Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor.
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Post-stardom, Mithun Chakraborty continued to star in substandard productions which failed to propel his career forward.
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Mithun Chakraborty appeared in hundreds of such films produced under his home banner Mithun's Dream Factory.
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Mithun Chakraborty was unable to accept the universally acclaimed Tamil film Iruvar as his character had to crop his hair, which would have affected his other 15 films at that time.
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Mithun Chakraborty returned to mainstream Hindi films in 2005 with the highly anticipated films Elaan and Lucky: No Time for Love, but contrary to expectations, both the films proved to be critical and commercial duds and failed to re-establish him.
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Mithun Chakraborty finally made a solid comeback in 2007 with Mani Ratnam's Guru.
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Mithun Chakraborty had two full-fledged releases in 2013 - Enemmy and the much anticipated Boss, both of which were critical and commercial failures.
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Mithun Chakraborty then played a supporting role in the Salman Khan action comedy film Kick.
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Mithun Chakraborty made his Kannada film debut with the successful action thriller The Villain in 2018.
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In 2019, Mithun Chakraborty played an important role in Vivek Agnihotri's political thriller The Tashkent Files.
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Mithun Chakraborty received another nomination in the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor category for his performance of a retired IAS officer in The Kashmir Files.
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Mithun Chakraborty made his digital debut in 2022 with Prime Video's web show Bestseller.
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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 this 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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In 2021, Mithun Chakraborty appeared as co-judge in the Star Jalsha's Dance Dance Junior alongside Tollywood actors Soham Mithun Chakraborty and Srabanti Chatterjee.
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Mithun Chakraborty appeared as a co-judge with Karan Johar and Parineeti Chopra on the reality show Hunarbaaz: Desh Ki Shaan, which premiered on Colors TV in 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 GoDaddy, an internet domain registrar and web-hosting company.
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Mithun Chakraborty was the face of Channel 10, a unit of Bengal Media Pvt.
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Mithun Chakraborty was 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 four 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.
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On 10 February 2024, Mithun Chakraborty was hospitalised after complaining of chest pain, and it was determined that he had suffered a stroke.
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Mithun Chakraborty is regarded as one of the most popular and successful actors of Indian cinema.
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Mithun Chakraborty is considered one of the best "dancing-heroes" in Bollywood, and is notable for his "Disco and Desi" fusion-style dancing that is popular among the masses.
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For 50 years Raj Kapoor was the only Indian film icon in Russia after his films like Awaara and Shree 420 made a significant impact in the country, but after the success of Disco Dancer, Mithun Chakraborty joined him as "a big craze" all over the nation.
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One of the highest paid actors from the 1980s to the early 1990s, Mithun Chakraborty appeared in Box Office Indias "Top Actors" list four times from 1985 to 1988.