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Profile of Mithun Chakraborty on Famous Like Me

 
Name: Mithun Chakraborty  
   
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Date of Birth: 16th June 1947
   
Place of Birth: Calcutta, West Bengal, India
   
Profession: Actor
 
 
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Mithun Chakraborty

Mithun Chakraborty (June 16, 1947) is a leading actor in the Bollywood. He was born in Chennai and educated at the Scottish Church College, Calcutta, where he studied chemistry. He graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India. He started his film career in a Tamil film made by Mrinal Sen. He shot into national prominence with his films Disco Dancer, Agneepath and was at one time, regarded as a rival to Amitabh Bachchan.

Mithun not only achieved a lot of commercial success but also tremendous critical acclaim (winning National Awards thrice), for his performances in his first film 'Mrigaya' as well as for Bengali films 'Tahader Katha' and 'Ramakrishna Paramhans'), Mithun's statement evidences the humility of one who has 'come up the hard way'.

During the mid 90's he shifted his focus from the mainstream cinema and went into developing his own movies. These movies were mainly targeted towards people whose social status can at best be described as modest. He tried to pull out an industry out of this. Intially, he was successful, no doubt, but to have a sustained growth and returns he now have to pull some other rabbit out of his hat.


In his heydays, earned a huge fan following as a 'dancing star', one who runs a parallel film industry from his South Indian abode of Ooty, is 'God' for a generation of audiences unaware of the Hrithik Roshans and the Sanjay Dutts of this world, who owns an entire chain of hotels in Ooty and one who, was the highest tax payer in the country for five consecutive years, from 1994 to 1999. He has done and continues to do social service all over India.


Filmography

2005 Lucky- No time for Love
2005 Elaan as Baba Sikander
1997 The Doll as Johnny Mendez  
1992 Tahader Katha  
1991 Akayla   
1991 Po Zakonu Dzhungley
1990 Agneepath as Krishnan Iyer MA  
1989 Prem Pratigyaa  as Raja
1989 Daata   
1989 Ilaaka   
1989 Guru   
1989 Mujrim   
1988 Param Dharam   
1982 Disco Dancer as Jimmy
1976 Mrigayaa as Tribal Hunter

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