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Bidipta Chakraborty

Indian Bengali actress

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ4904175
Source-derived summary

Bidipta Chakraborty is an Indian actress who predominantly works in Bengali films. She had appeared in Debesh Chattopadhyay's play Brain.

Personal life

Bidipta was born to eminent theatre actor Biplab Ketan Chakraborty and dancer Dipali Chakraborty. Her two sisters Sudipta Chakraborty and Bidisha Chakraborty are also actresses. Bidipta married film director Birsa Dasgupta in 2010. Chaitali Dasgupta and Raja Dasgupta are her mother-in-law and father-in-law respectively. Bidipta has a daughter Mekhla from her first marriage whom Birsa adopted as his own. Bidipta and Birsa together have a daughter named Ida Dasgupta who was a child artist in the film Shob Bhooturey.

Filmography

Bijoyar Pore (2024)

Mon Kharap (2022)

Bismillah (2022)

Sohorer Upokotha (2021)

Dracula Sir (2020)

Purba Paschim Dakshin (2019)

Nagarkirtan (2019)

Rosogolla (2018)

Load shedding (2015) Directed by Soukarya Ghosal

Meghe Dhaka Tara (2013)

Ami Aadu (2011)

Chalo Let's Go (2008)

Abar Aranye (2003)

Mr. and Mrs.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Bidipta Chakraborty” is indian Bengali actress. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Bidipta, Chakraborty and Indian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010, 2024, 2022, 2021—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1973-06-06. For this dossier, Bidipta, Chakraborty and Indian is the immediate research focus.
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Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4904175. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010, 2024, 2022 and 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from Bidipta Chakraborty” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.