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Jishu Sengupta popularly known as Jisshu, is a popular Bengali
Bengali language
Bengali or Bangla is an eastern Indo-Aryan language. It is native to the region of eastern South Asia known as Bengal, which comprises present day Bangladesh, the Indian state of West Bengal, and parts of the Indian states of Tripura and Assam. It is written with the Bengali script...

 film actor. Though, his real name is Biswaroop Sengupta, he is more famous as Jishu, his pet name. He is the son of Ujjwal Sengupta, also an actor of Bengali films. His mother, Mukta Sengupta, was a homemaker and a wedding planner. Jisshu has an elder sister, Satarupa (Rai) Sengupta, who was previously married (now divorced) to Anindya Bose, the lead singer from the Bengali band, Sahar. Initially, Jisshu was a cricketer, who represented Bengal in some sub junior games. But he was more keen to make a career in the Bengali film industry. He got his first break in a mega serial, Mahaprabhu as the lead character: Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. After that, there was no looking back for him. He is a popular figure in contemporary Bengali television. He has recently (June 2011) made a comeback on Bengali television, with the megaserial Aparajito, which is being produced by his own company, Blue Water pictures, and is possibly the very first serial based on a male protagonist.

Jisshu has worked with renowned directors like Shyam Benegal
Shyam Benegal
Shyam Benegal is a prolific Indian director and screenwriter. With his first four feature films Ankur , Nishant Manthan and Bhumika he created a new genre, which has now come to be called the "middle cinema" in India although he himself has expressed dislike in the term preferring his work to...

 (in Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero
The music score that accompanies the film was composed by A. R. Rahman. The soundtrack features 19 pieces composed by Rahman, including 13 instrumentals and orchestral themes, in addition to 6 further songs, with lyrics by Javed Akhtar. Performers include the Western Choir Chennai and the Mumbai...

), and Rituparno Ghosh
Rituparno Ghosh
Rituparno Ghosh is a Bengali film director. He has won 8 National Film Awards in India and several awards at international film festivals abroad.- Early life and background :...

 in The Last Lear
The Last Lear
The Last Lear is an Indian film, in the English language, directed by Rituparno Ghosh. The film won the National Award of India for Best Feature Film in English in 2007. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Preity Zinta, Arjun Rampal, Divya Dutta, Shefali Shah and Jisshu Sengupta. Shefali Shah won the...

(in which the co-actor was Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s as the "angry young man" of Hindi cinema, and has since appeared in over 180 Indian films in a career spanning more than four decades...

), Shob Charitro Kalponik
Shob Charitro Kalponik
Sob Charitro Kalponik Aka Afterword , is a Bengali film by Rituparno Ghosh. The movie stars Bipasha Basu and Prosenjit Chatterjee.This movie is selected for the 30th Durban International Film Festival '09.-Synopsis:...

, and Abohoman, and with Goutam Ghose in Abar Aranye
Abar Aranye
Abar Aranye is an award-winning Indian Bengali feature film directed by Goutom Ghosh.-Plot:...

.

His wife Nilanjana Sharma
Nilanjana Sharma
Nilanjana Sharma is an actress. She is the daughter of Anjana Bhowmik. Her younger sister Chandana Sharma is also an actress. She also played a pivotal role in the show Hip Hip Hooray Nilanjana's debut movie was director Subrata Sen's Swapner Feriwala. She is a graduate of English literature. She...

, whom he married in 2004, is the elder daughter of Anjana Bhowmick
Anjana Bhowmick
Anjana Bhowmik is a pretty actress of Bengali cinema of bygone years. She was born on December 30, 1944 in Cooch Behar. Her real name is Arati Bhowmik and nickname Babin. Her father was Bibhuti Bhusan Bhowmik. She spent her school days in Cooch Behar. She passed the Higher Secondary Exam of West...

, another Bengali film actress in the Bengali film industry; her debut Bengali film was Swapner Feriwala
Swapner Feriwala
Swapner Feriwala is a 2002 Bengali film. Directed by Subrata Sen, it featured Subrata Dutta, Ferdous Ahmed, Nilanjana Sharma. The film is Nilanjana Sharma's cinematic debut.- Plot :...

(2002) directed by Subrata Sen
Subrata Sen
Subrata Sen , is a critically acclaimed Bengali Indian film director, writer, novelist and producer.- Early life :Subrata Sen was born in Kolkata in 1963...

.

Filmography

Year Movie Director Co-stars Music director Banner
2011  Takhan Teish
Takhan Teish
Takhan Teish is the second feature film of Atanu Ghosh which was premiered at the 6th Osaka International Film Festival,Japan.-Cast:*Jisshu Sengupta as Tamodeep*Indrani Halder as Meghna*Paoli Dam as Mohini*Rajatabha Dutta as Sandipan...

Atanu Ghosh
Atanu Ghosh
Atanu Ghosh is a critically acclaimed Bengali film director and screenwriter-Biography:After completing post-graduation in journalism from the University of Calcutta, Atanu Ghosh started his career in 1996 as scriptwriter and director of documentary films, the first series being Pioneers of Indian...

 
Indrani Haldar
Indrani Haldar
Indrani Haldar is a Bengali actress. Indrani, also known as Mamoni, was born in Kolkata on January 6, 1971. Her father is Sanjoy Haldar. She finished her schooling from the Multipurpose Girl’s School and graduated from Jogamaya Devi College, an affiliated women's college of the prestigious...

, Paoli Dam
Paoli Dam
Paoli Dam is an Indian Bengali actress. She is from Golf Road, Kolkata and came into prominence with her 2009 Bengali film - Kaalbela, directed by notable Director Gautam Ghose.-Education:...

, Aparajita Ghosh Das, Tanushree Shankar, Rajatava Dutta 
2011  Noukadubi
Noukadubi
Noukadubi is a Bengali film directed by Rituporno Ghosh, released on January 2011. The movie is a period film set in the 1920s, based on a novel by Rabindranath Tagore of the same name, although the credits claim that the film is ‘inspired’ by the Tagore novel because Rituparno Ghosh has taken the...

Rituparno Ghosh
Rituparno Ghosh
Rituparno Ghosh is a Bengali film director. He has won 8 National Film Awards in India and several awards at international film festivals abroad.- Early life and background :...

 
Raima Sen
Raima Sen
-Early life:She is the daughter of Moon Moon Sen and the granddaughter of legendary actress Suchitra Sen. Her sister, Riya Sen, is also in the Bollywood industry. Their father Bharat Dev Varma is a member of the royal family of Tripura. Her paternal grandmother, Ila Devi, was the princess of Cooch...

, Riya Sen
Riya Sen
Riya Sen is an Indian film actress and model. Riya, who hails from a family of actors including her grandmother Suchitra Sen, mother Moon Moon Sen and sister Raima Sen, began her acting career in 1991 as a child artiste in the film Vishkanya. Her first commercial success in her film career was...

, Prosenjit Chatterjee,
2010  Arekti Premer Golpo
Arekti Premer Golpo
Arekti Premer Golpo is a 2010 India drama film directed by Bengali filmmaker Kaushik Ganguly, written by Ganguly and Rituparno Ghosh. It stars Rituparno Ghosh and Indraneil Sengupta in lead role, while Ghosh is playing as a gay filmmaker. This film will also be the first film on homosexuality to...

Kaushik Ganguly
Kaushik Ganguly
Kaushik Ganguly is an Indian director, screenwriter and actor in Bengali cinema. He is known for his works that explore sexuality like Ushnatar Janye which deals with a lesbian relationship and Arekti Premer Golpo that examines transgendered identity.-Life and career:Ganguly was born in Kolkata...

, Rituparno Ghosh
Rituparno Ghosh
Rituparno Ghosh is a Bengali film director. He has won 8 National Film Awards in India and several awards at international film festivals abroad.- Early life and background :...

 
Rituparno Ghosh
Rituparno Ghosh
Rituparno Ghosh is a Bengali film director. He has won 8 National Film Awards in India and several awards at international film festivals abroad.- Early life and background :...

, Indraneil Sengupta
Indraneil Sengupta
Indraneil Sengupta is an Indian model and actor, born in Assam and schooled and brought up in Ahmedabad. He was a finalist in the Gladrags Manhunt Contest 1999. In 2000 he moved to Mumbai to pursue modelling. He modelled for designers like Rohit Bal and also worked for choreographers like Marc...

, Raima Sen
Raima Sen
-Early life:She is the daughter of Moon Moon Sen and the granddaughter of legendary actress Suchitra Sen. Her sister, Riya Sen, is also in the Bollywood industry. Their father Bharat Dev Varma is a member of the royal family of Tripura. Her paternal grandmother, Ila Devi, was the princess of Cooch...

 
2010  Abohoman Rituparno Ghosh
Rituparno Ghosh
Rituparno Ghosh is a Bengali film director. He has won 8 National Film Awards in India and several awards at international film festivals abroad.- Early life and background :...

 
Deepankar De
Deepankar De
Deepankar De is an actor in Bengali movies. He has worked in many movies as hero, villain and character artist.He starred in Satyajit Ray's Shakha Proshakha and Agantuk . He played a cameo in Seemabaddha and a character role in Ganashatru.-External links:...

, Ananya Chatterjee
Ananya Chatterjee
Ananya Chatterjee is a Bengali film actress known for her National Award-winning role in Abahoman. She started her career as a TV actress. She acted in several TV serials and films, including three directed by Anjan Dutt...

, Mamata Shankar
Mamata Shankar
Mamata Shankar is an actress in the Bengali language film industry of India. She has acted in films by renowned film directors including, Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Rituparno Ghosh, Buddhadev Dasgupta and Gautam Ghosh...

2010  Kache acho Tumi pallab Ghosh
Pallab Ghosh
Pallab Ghosh is a science correspondent for BBC News. Born in India, he came to the United Kingdom in 1963, he read physics at Imperial College, London between 1980 and 1983 and has been a science journalist since 1984...

 
swastika Mukherjee
Swastika Mukherjee
Swastika Mukherjee is a Bengali actress at Tollywood. She is daughter of actor Santu Mukherjee. Mukherjee's first stint with acting was the tele-serial Devdasi. She made her film debut in 2003 with the film Hemanter Pakhi directed by Urmi Chakraborty...

2010  Khono Bidai Bolo Na S.K.Murlidharan  Malabika, Rajatabha dutta
2009  Neel Akasher Chadni
2008  Kakatua
2008  The Last Lear
The Last Lear
The Last Lear is an Indian film, in the English language, directed by Rituparno Ghosh. The film won the National Award of India for Best Feature Film in English in 2007. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Preity Zinta, Arjun Rampal, Divya Dutta, Shefali Shah and Jisshu Sengupta. Shefali Shah won the...

Rituparno Ghosh
Rituparno Ghosh
Rituparno Ghosh is a Bengali film director. He has won 8 National Film Awards in India and several awards at international film festivals abroad.- Early life and background :...

 
Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s as the "angry young man" of Hindi cinema, and has since appeared in over 180 Indian films in a career spanning more than four decades...

, Preity Zinta
Preity Zinta
Preity Zinta is an Indian film actress. She has appeared in Hindi films of Bollywood, as well as Telugu, Punjabi and English language films. After graduating with a degree in criminal psychology, Zinta made her acting debut in Dil Se in 1998 followed by a role in Soldier the same year...

 
2008  Bangal Ghoti Phataphati ,
2008  Sob Choritro Kalponik
Sob Choritro Kalponik
Sob Charitro Kalponik Aka Afterword , is a Bengali film by Rituparno Ghosh. The movie stars Bipasha Basu and Prosenjit Chatterjee.This movie is selected for the 30th Durban International Film Festival '09.-Synopsis:...

Rituparno Ghosh
Rituparno Ghosh
Rituparno Ghosh is a Bengali film director. He has won 8 National Film Awards in India and several awards at international film festivals abroad.- Early life and background :...

 
Prasenjit Chatterjee
Prasenjit Chatterjee
Prosenjit Chatterjee Prosenjit Chatterjee Prosenjit Chatterjee (also Prosenjit Chatterjee or Proshenjit Chattopadhyay , professionally known as Proshenjit, is a Bengali film actor. His fans affectionately called him Bumba Da...

, Bipasha Basu
Bipasha Basu
Bipasha Basu is an Indian actress who mainly appears in Bollywood films. A former model, she was the winner of the Ford's Godrej Cinthol Supermodel contest in 1996.-Early life:...

 
2008  90 Ghanta
90 Ghanta
The Game –90 Ghanta is a Bengali film Directed by Sougata Roy Burman. Psycho-thriller The Game – 90 Ghanta, produced by Morpheus Media Ventures and directed by Sougata Roy Burman is one such offbeat movie.-Plot:...

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2008  Bor Aasbe Ekhuni ,
2008  Golmaal
Golmaal
Golmaal may refer to:*Golmaal , Bengali film*Golmaal , Hindi/Urdu comedy film directed by Rohit Shetty.*Golmaal Returns, Hindi/Urdu film sequel to Golmaal *Golmaal 3, Hindi/Urdu films sequel to Golmaal...

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2008  Janatar Aadalat
Janatar Aadalat
Janatar Aadalat is a Bengali film directed by Manoj Thakur.-Crew:* Producer:* Director:*Story:*Production Design:*Dialogue:*Lyrics:*Editing :*Cinematography:-External links:**...

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2008  Janmadata ,
2008  Love
Love
Love is an emotion of strong affection and personal attachment. In philosophical context, love is a virtue representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection. Love is central to many religions, as in the Christian phrase, "God is love" or Agape in the Canonical gospels...

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2008  Premer Kahini
Premer Kahini
-Critical reception:The DDLJ sameness doesn’t end there. The lovebirds romance on the terrace, night after night, like Raj and Simran did. They sing and dance in the rain, around trees and on mountains sporting trendy jackets and chiffon saris.Dev is a show stealer from the start. He woos Koel —...

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2007  Chakra
Chakra
Chakra is a concept originating in Hindu texts, featured in tantric and yogic traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism. Its name derives from the Sanskrit word for "wheel" or "turning" .Chakra is a concept referring to wheel-like vortices...

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2007  Kalishankar
Kalishankar
Kalishankar or Kalisankar is the bilingual film in Oriya and Bengali language by director Prashanta Nanda in 2007.* Kalishankar * Kalishankar...

,
2007  Mahaguru
Mahaguru
Mahaguru is a Hindi film directed by S.S.Ravichandra and written by Gyandev Agnihotri and Kader Khan. This is one of best action films of its time....

,
2007  Rudra The Fire ,
2007  Shapmochon ,
2006  Amra
Amra
Amra are the name of certain ancient Irish elegies or panegyrics on native saints. The best known is the Amra of Coluimb Cille...

,
2006  Bhumiputra ,
2006  Hangama
Hangama
Hangama is a popular singer from Afghanistan. She is born as Zohra in 1962 in Kabul. When she became a singer her mother chose the name Hangama for her. She currently lives an exile in Toronto, Canada where she continues her music career...

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2006  Pita
Pita
Pita or pitta is a round pocket bread widely consumed in many Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, and Balkan cuisines. It is prevalent in Greece, the Balkans the Levant, the Arabian Peninsula and Turkey. The "pocket" in pita bread is created by steam, which puffs up the dough...

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2006  Swarthopar ,
2006  Tapasya ,
2005  Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero
The music score that accompanies the film was composed by A. R. Rahman. The soundtrack features 19 pieces composed by Rahman, including 13 instrumentals and orchestral themes, in addition to 6 further songs, with lyrics by Javed Akhtar. Performers include the Western Choir Chennai and the Mumbai...

Shyam Benegal
Shyam Benegal
Shyam Benegal is a prolific Indian director and screenwriter. With his first four feature films Ankur , Nishant Manthan and Bhumika he created a new genre, which has now come to be called the "middle cinema" in India although he himself has expressed dislike in the term preferring his work to...

 
Sachin Khedekar
Sachin Khedekar
Sachin Khedekar is an Indian actor and director, best known for his roles in Astitva, Imtihaan, and as Netaji in Shyam Benegal's Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero...

, Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Kulbhushan Kharbanda is an Indian actor, who worked in Hindi and Punjabi films, and is known as character Shakaal in Shaan inspired by the character of Blofeld from James Bond movies...

, Rajit Kapur
Rajit Kapur
Rajit Kapur is an Indian actor. He is particularly known for his award-winning portrayal of Mahatma Gandhi in the 1996 film, The Making of the Mahatma. One of his most popular stints is his portrayal of Byomkesh Bakshi in a television series of the same name based on the character created by...

, Divya Dutta
Divya Dutta
Divya Dutta is an Indian actress from Ludhiana, Punjab, India who appears in Hindi and Punjabi films.- Career :She did her schooling from Sacred Heart Convent, Ludhiana...

, Arif Zakaria
Arif Zakaria
Arif Zakaria is an Indian actor. He is best known for his role as Emmi Begum in Darmiyan ....

 
2005  Chore Chore Mastuto Bhai
Chore Chore Mastuto Bhai
Chore Chore Mastuto Bhai is a 2005 Bengali-language Indian feature film directed by Anup Sengupta, starring Mithun Chakraborty, Chiranjit, Jeet, Jishu Sengupta, Koel Mullick, Dipankar Dey-Plot:...

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2005  Debi ,
2005  Mayer Raja ,
2005  Sangram
Sangram
Sampada Gramin Mahila Sanstha is a voluntary organization that works at the grassroots level with activists, volunteers and paid workers. It is slowly gaining importance as a practical training ground for other NGO’s and GO’s interested in working on HIV/AIDS in a rural context...

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2005  Shudhu Bhalobasa ,
2005  Swapna
Swapna
Swapna is both a female name or a Hindu philosophy and discipline of dream, dreamwork and dreaming. Swapna in Hindu philosophy, a state of consciousness when a person is dreaming in sleep. At this state, he, she or it cannot perceive the external universe with the senses. It enjoys another...

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2004  Anyay Atyachar ,
2004  Gerakal ,
2004  Premi
Premi
Premi is a Bengali movie that released in 2004. Directed by Rabi Kinagi, the movie featured Jeet, Jishu Sengupta and Chandana Sharma. This was Chandana Sharma's debut movieThis movie is also the debut of music director Jeet Ganguly.-Plot:...

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2004  Raja Babu
Raja Babu
Raja Babu is a 1994 Bollywood movie directed by David Dhawan.The film stars Karisma Kapoor , Govinda, Shakti Kapoor, Kadar Khan, Aruna Irani, Prem Chopra and Gulshan Grover, with music by Anand-Milind and lyrics by Sameer. It is a remake of K...

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2004  Sajani ,
2004  Samudra Sakshi ,
2003  Abar Aranye
Abar Aranye
Abar Aranye is an award-winning Indian Bengali feature film directed by Goutom Ghosh.-Plot:...

Goutam Ghose  Soumitra Chatterjee
Soumitra Chatterjee
Soumitra Chatterjee or Soumitra Chattopadhyay is an iconic Bengali actor from India, known among other things for his frequent collaborations with the great Bengali film director Satyajit Ray and his constant comparison with the Bengali screen idol Uttam Kumar.-Background:Soumitra graduated from...

, Subhendu Chatterjee
Subhendu Chatterjee
Subhendu Chatterjee was an Indian actor of television and films in Bengali.-Career:He started his film career with Mrinal Sen's Akash Kusum in 1965. He was appreciated for his restrained portrayal of the honest friend who would fail to prevent his go-getting friend from the path of corruption and...

, Samit Bhanja
Samit Bhanja
Samit Bhanja was born in Jamshedpur. He got his first break in Balai Sen’s 1965 film Surer Agun and is remembered as the male lead, Navin, of the successful Hindi film Guddi, opposite Jaya Bhaduri. In addition to acting in film, he acted in theatre and jatras, and was associated with the Rupkar...

, Sharmila Tagore
Sharmila Tagore
Sharmila Tagore is an Indian film actress. She has won National Film Awards and Filmfare Awards for her performances.She has led the Indian Film Censor Board from October 2004 till March 2011...

, Tabu
Tabu (actress)
Tabu is an Indian film actress. She has mainly acted in Hindi films, though she has also starred in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Bengali language films, as well as one American film...

 
2003  Biswasghatak ,
2003  Guru ,
2003  Memsaheb ,
2003  Sneher Protidan ,
2002  Chhelebela ,
2002  Debdas ,
2002  Ektu Chhoa ,
2002  Kurukshetra
Kurukshetra
Kurukshetra is a land of historical and religious importance. Historically the land belonged to Punjab now a district in Haryana state of India. It is a holy place and is also known as Dharmakshetra . According to the Puranas, Kurukshetra is named after King Kuru, the ancestor of Kauravas and...

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2002  Manush Amanush ,
2002  Moner Majhe Tumi
Moner Majhe Tumi
-Cast:* Riaz as Benu * Purnima as Renu * Jishu Sengupta as Arun* Abbas Ullah as* Biplob Chaterjee as* Ali Azad as* Siraj Hayder as* Shangkar Chakraborti as* Moumita Gupta as* Arpita datt as...

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2001  Bidhatar Khela ,
2000  Rin Mukti ,
2000  Shesh Thikana ,
1999  Priyojon ,

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