Gautam Mukherjee

Gautam Mukherjee (also known as Gautam Mukhopadhyay) was an Indian actor and director who is known for his work in Bengali and Hindi cinema.

After Devi Mukherjee's death, he was roped in Gunamoy Banerjee's thriller Bish Bachhar Aage (1948) to enact the unfinished part his brother was supposed to play. Like his brother, he was also celebrated for his voice. He portrayed Indian revolutionary Nirmal Sen in Nirmal Chowdhury's Chattogram Astragar Lunthan (1949), Bhudeb Mukhopadhyay in Vidyasagar (1950), Bimal Ganguly in Jighansa (1951) and Jayanta Chowdhury in Hanabari (1952). He had an extensive career in Bollywood and was mostly typecast as a police officer in Hindi films. He also became a part of a number of plays staged by Uttar Sarathi, a Calcutta-based theatre group. His directorial debut Troyee (1982) starring Mithun Chakraborty and Debashree Roy became the highest-grossing film of the year.