Kaushik Sen

Kaushik Sen was born into a Baidya Brahmin family on 19 September 1968. He is the son of actress Chitra Mondal Sen and actor Shyamal Sen. He studied at the Julien Day School, and graduated from Scottish Church College, both in Kolkata. Sen is married to Reshmi Sen and has a son, Riddhi Sen.^[4] He is a Vice President of the "West Bengal Motion Picture Artists' Forum" along with Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, Aparajita Auddy, Bharat Kaul and Sumanta Mukherjee.^[5]

Since 1992, he has been the director of Bengali theatre group Swapnasandhani. The group has staged around fifty plays and perform regularly in all the major theaters at Kolkata and in major countries all around the globe. Their most recent plays are Hamlet and Taray Taray. They recently performed Hamlet at Chicago NABC2024. It was hugely appreciated with standing ovation. Soon they will travel Australia with their newest production "Andhar Ghonay".

In 2010, the group staged the play Birpurush, which was inspired by Rabindranath Tagore's poem. It was a political play and dealt with the contemporary context of West Bengal. The play stirred up some controversies.^[6]

Sen appeared with Soumitra Chatterjee in the play Tiktiki.

Sen made his acting debut in 1979 with Mrinal Sen's Ek Din Pratidin as a child actor.^{[citation needed]} He has acted in more than seventy films. His best known performances in films are: Chalchitro (1981), Wheel Chair (1995), Aamaar Bhuvan (2002), Shunyo E Buke (2005), BankuBabur Bandhu (2006), Dwando (2009), Iti Mrinalini (2011), Charulata 2011 (2011), Piyalir Password (2012), Abar Byomkesh (2012), Goynar Baksho (2013), Rupkotha Noy (2013), Kolkata Calling (2014), Bhengchi (2015), Babar Naam Gandhiji (2015), Rajkahini (2015), Kahaani 2 (2016), Lion (2016), Zulfiqar (2016), Jawker Dhan (2017), Durga Sahay (2017), Raktokarobi (2017), Laboratory (2018), Rasogolla (2018), Barunbabur Bandhu (2019), Durgeshgorer Guptodhan (2019), Ekannaborti (2021), Belashuru (2022), Kaberi Antardhan (2023), Ardhangini (2023), Dabaru (2024) and Shotyi Bole Shotyi Kichhu Nei (2025).

• Marx in Kolkata based on Howard Zinn's Marx in Soho
• Hamlet
• Taraye Taraye based on Srijato's Tara Bhora Akasher Niche
• Bidehi based on Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts
• Nirbhaya based on Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children
• Antigone based on Antigone (Sophocles play)
• Macbeth (also performed at Bharat Rang Mahotsav)^[9]
• Malyaban
• Jal Chhabi (debut)
• Tikitiki based on Anthony Shaffer's Sleuth
• Punoscho^[10]
• Bhalo Rakkhosher Golpo
• Prothom Partha

• 2003 BFJA Award in the category best actor in supporting role, for the film Aamar Bhuvan.^[12]
• 2023 Girish Purashkar for extraordinary contributions in Theatre by the Cultural Department of Government of West Bengal
• 2023 Best Actor Telly Academy Award for Godhuli Alap television series

• Debesh Chattopadhyay
• Arpita Ghosh
• Suman Mukhopadhyay
• Bratya Basu
• Sujan Mukhopadhyay