Jisshu Sengupta

Jisshu Sengupta
Native name	যীশু সেনগুপ্ত
Born	Biswaroop Sengupta 15 March 1977 Kolkata, India
Years active	1999 – present
Spouse(s)	Nilanjana Sharma
Children	Sara, Zara

Jisshu Sengupta, popularly known as Jisshu, is an Indian actor and television presenter. Though his real name is Biswaroop Sengupta, he is more famous as Jisshu, his pet name. He is the son of Ujjwal Sengupta, also an actor in 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 for 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. 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 (in Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero), Rituparno Ghosh (in The Last Lear (in which the co-actor was Amitabh Bachchan), Shob Charitro Kalponik, Chitrangada: The Crowning Wish and Abohoman), Aparna Sen (in Arshinagar) and with Gautam Ghose in Abar Aranye. He has also appeared in Bollywood films like Barfi!, Mardaani and Piku.

Jisshu is captain of the Bengal Tigers T20 team in the Indian Celebrity Cricket League. His half century in the match against the Kerala Strikers was well appreciated. Jisshu is also an anchor on Bengali television.

Personal life

Jisshu's wife Nilanjana Sharma, whom he married in 2004, is the elder daughter of Anjana Bhowmick, another Bengali film actress in the Bengali film industry; her debut Bengali film was Swapner Feriwala (2002), directed by Subrata Sen.^[1][2]

Filmography

Year	Movie	Director	Co-stars	Music director
2015	Arshinagar	Aparna Sen	Dev Rittika Sen	Debojyoti Mishra
2015	Aranyadeb	Debashish Sen Sharma	Mir
2015	Byomkesh Bakshi (2015 film) [3]	Anjan Dutt	Saswata Chatterjee
2015	Rajkahini	Srijit Mukherji	Rituparna Sengupta, Parno Mitra, Abir Chatterjee, Koushik Sen, Saswata Chatterjee	Indraadip Das Gupta
2015	Room No. 203	Aniket Chattopadhyay	Badsha Moitra, Priyanka
2015	Nirbaak	Srijit Mukherji	Sushmita Sen Anjan Dutta Ritwick Chakraborty	Neel Dutt
2015	Piku	Shoojit Sircar	Amitabh Bachchan, Deepika Padukone, Irrfan Khan	Anupam Roy
2014	Ek Phaali Rodh	Atanu Ghosh	Dhritiman Chaterji, Aparajita Ghosh Das, Ritwick Chakraborty	Joy Sarkar
2014	Sesh Bole Kichu Nei	Anjan Dutt	Subhashree Ganguly, Anjan Dutt	Neel Dutt
2014	Mardaani	Pradeep Sarkar	Rani Mukherji	Shantanu Moitra
2014	Jaatishwar	Srijit Mukherji	Prosenjit Chatterjee, Abir Chatterjee, Swastika Mukherjee, Riya Sen	Kabir Suman
2013	Golemale Pirit Koro Na	Anindya Banerjee	Ritwick Chakraborty, Payal Sarkar, Kanchan Mullick	Akash
2012	Barfi!	Anurag Basu	Priyanka Chopra, Ranbir Kapoor, Ileana D'Cruz	Pritam
2012	Chitrangada: The Crowning Wish	Rituparno Ghosh	Rituparno Ghosh, Raima Sen, Deepankar De, Anjan Dutt	Debojyoti Mishra
2011	Takhan Teish	Atanu Ghosh	Indrani Haldar, Paoli Dam, Aparajita Ghosh Das, Tanusree Shankar, Rajatava Dutta
2011	Noukadubi	Rituparno Ghosh	Raima Sen, Riya Sen, Prosenjit Chatterjee,
2010	Arekti Premer Golpo	Kaushik Ganguly, Rituparno Ghosh	Rituparno Ghosh, Indraneil Sengupta, Raima Sen
2010	Abohoman	Rituparno Ghosh	Deepankar De, Ananya Chatterjee, Mamata Shankar
2010	Kachhe Achho Tumi	Pallab Ghosh	Swastika Mukherjee	Zubeen Garg
2010	Khono Bidai Bolo Na	S.K.Murlidharan	Malabika, Rajatabha Dutta
2009	Neel Akasher Chadni		Jeet, Koel Mullick
2008	Kakatua
2008	The Last Lear	Rituparno Ghosh	Amitabh Bachchan, Preity Zinta, Arjun Rampal	Raja Narayan Deb Sanjoy Das
2008	Bangal Ghoti Phataphati
2008	Shob Charitro Kalponik	Rituparno Ghosh	Prasenjit Chatterjee, Bipasha Basu
2008	90 Ghanta
2008	Bor Asbe Ekhuni
2008	Golmaal
2008	Janatar Aadalat
2008	Janmadata
2008	Love		Koel Mullick
2008	Premer Kahini		Dev Koel Mullick
2007	Chakra
2007	Kalishankar		Prosenjit Chatterjee
2007	Mahaguru		Mithun Chakraborty
2007	Rudra The Fire
2007	Shapmochon
2006	Amra
2006	Bhumiputra
2006	Hangama
2006	Pita
2006	Swarthopar
2006	Tapasya
2005	Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero	Shyam Benegal	Sachin Khedekar, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Rajit Kapur, Divya Dutta, Arif Zakaria
2005	Chore Chore Mastuto Bhai
2005	Debi
2005	Mayer Raja
2005	Sangram
2005	Shudhu Bhalobasa
2005	Swapno	Haranath Chakraborty	Sayantani Ghosh	Hemanta Mukerjee Shyamal Mitra Madhu Mukherjee
2004	Anyay Atyachar
2004	Gerakal
2004	Premi
2004	Raja Babu
2004	Sajani
2004	Samudra Sakshi
2003	Abar Aranye	Gautam Ghose	Soumitra Chatterjee, Subhendu Chatterjee, Samit Bhanja, Sharmila Tagore, Tabu
2003	Biswasghatak
2003	Guru	Swapan Saha	Mithun Chakraborty, Rachana Banerjee
2003	Memsaheb
2003	Sneher Protidan
2002	Chhelebela
2002	Debdas
2002	Ektu Chhoa	Dayal Acharya	Locket Chatterjee, Dipankar Dey, Bharat Kaul, Prabir Ranjan Basu
2002	Kurukshetra
2002	Manush Amanush
2002	Moner Majhe Tumi	Motiur Rahman Panu	Riaz, Purnima
2001	Bidhatar Khela
2000	Rin Mukti
2000	Shesh Thikana
1999	Priyojon

Directions

Jisshu has also directed television serials like Aparajita and Tomay Amay Mile.

He also directed a reality show named Shonge Srijit.

References

1. "Starry night out". Calcutta, India: www.telegraphindia.com. 2004-07-11. Retrieved 2008-10-29.
2. Dasgupta, Priyanka (2004-03-08). "Jishu, Nelanjana to tie the kno". indiatimes.com. Retrieved 2008-10-29.
3. "Jisshu as Byomkesh?". The Times of India.

External links

• Jisshu Sengupta at the Internet Movie Database
• www.citwf.com profile