Mithun Chakraborty did not have money to go to the National Award, Rekha’s spotboy had reached Delhi
Bollywood’s well-known actor Mithun Chakraborty has turned 75 years old. Born on 16 June 1950 in the city of Kolkata, Mithun Chakraborty’s original name is Gaurang Chakraborty. He completed his graduation from the famous Scottish Church in Kolkata. Mithun Chakraborty was associated with Naxalism due to being greatly influenced by the leftist ideology in the early stages of his life, but he left the path of Naxalism with the untimely death of his brother and enrolled in the Pune film institute.
The first director Mrinal Sen was eyeing Mithun. Mrinal’s style of flirting with girls was liked by Mrinal and two years later she cast Mithun for her film ‘Mrigaya’. The film ‘Mrigaya’, released in 1976, was the first film of Mithun Chakraborty’s cine career as an actor.
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In the film, he played the role of a Santhali young man Mrigaya who raises his voice against his wife’s sexual abuse by English Hukumat. He was awarded the National Award for Best Actor for his strong performance in the film.
Mithun did not have money to go to Delhi to take the award. In those days Rekha was going to shoot the film in Delhi. She made her a spotboy booked her ticket on a flight and went to Delhi with Mithun. Despite the success of the film Mrigaya, Mithun Chakraborty was not getting work as an actor. Everyone would give assurances but no one gave them the opportunity to work. Meanwhile, Mithun Chakraborty got a chance to play a small role in some films like two unknown, Phool Khile Hai Gulshan Gulshan but did not benefit from these films.
In 1979, Mithun Chakraborty got a chance to work in Ravikant Nagich’s film ‘Security’ which proved to be the first hit film of his cine career. Mithun Chakraborty played a detective in this film, full of action and action. Cine lovers liked his style very much. Later in the year 1982, the sequel to this film was made.
The star of Mithun Chakraborty’s fate shone with the film ‘Disco Dancer’ released in 1982. Mithun Chakraborty appeared in the role of disco dancer in this film full of dance songs. Directed by B. Subhash, adorned with excellent song-music and acting, the tremendous success of the film established actor Mithun Chakraborty as a star. After the success of the film Disco Dancer, Mithun Chakraborty’s image became as a dancing star.
After this film, producer directors redeemed the image of Mithun Chakraborty’s dancing actor in most films. These films include films like swear, dance dance. In the eighties, Mithun Chakraborty became the first choice of manufacturers who made a low -budget family film. In this era, he emerged as ‘Amitabh Ka Amitabh’ for filmmakers and managed to entertain the audience by working in many successful films.
Mithun was called Amitabh Bachchan of the poor. While giving a reaction to this, Mithun said during an interview, this is my biggest praise ever. Amitabh is the biggest star of the century. Amitabh used to do big banner films and I used to do small budget films. According to the budget, both films used to earn. In the last years of the nineties, he distanced from the film industry to some extent and went to Uti where he started doing hotel business, although even in this era, he did not completely break his ties with the film industry and was fascinated by the audience by acting in films.
Mithun Chakraborty introduced himself in various roles to avoid uniformity in acting and also establish himself as a character actor. In this sequence, he started the second innings of his cine career by playing gray shades in the film announcement in the year 2005. In the year 2005, Mani Ratnam’s film Guru saw a new dimension of his performance. If you look at Mithun Chakraborty’s cine career, he will be found an important part of multi -starrer films.
Whenever filmmakers need an actor in such films, they are unable to ignore Mithun Chakraborty. Mithun Chakraborty received the second National Award for Buddhadev Dasgupta’s Bengali film ‘Tahader Katha’. He has also received the National Award for Supporting Actor for the film ‘Swami Vivekananda’.
Mithun Chakraborty has worked with all famous actresses in his cine career but his pairing on the silver screen was well liked with Ranjita. Apart from this, Mithun Chakraborty was also liked with Sridevi, Padmini Kolhapuri and Zeenat Aman.
Mithun Chakraborty has been awarded the Filmfare Award twice in his cine career so far. Mithun Chakraborty has been awarded the Padma Bhushan for special contribution in the field of art. Mithun Chakraborty has acted in more than 350 films in his cine career. Mithun Chakraborty is still working in films with Josho-Kharosh.
