Mithun Chakraborty

Name: Mithun Chakraborty
Birthday: Monday, June 16, 1947
Star Sign : Gemini
First Film : Mrigayaa as Tribal Hunter













BIOGRAPHY

Mithun Chakraborty (June 16, 1947) (original name Gouranga Chakraborty) is a leading actor in the Bollywood. He was born in Chennai and educated at the Scottish Church College, Calcutta, where he studied chemistry. He graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India. He started his film career in a Bengali film made by Mrinal Sen. He shot into national prominence with his films Disco Dancer, Agneepath and was at one time, regarded as a rival to Amitabh Bachchan.

Mithun not only achieved a lot of commercial success but also tremendous critical acclaim (winning National Awards thrice), for his performances in his first film Mrigaya as well as for Bengali films Tahader Katha and Ramakrishna Paramhans), Mithun's statements evidence the humility of one who has 'come up the hard way'.

During the mid 1990s he shifted his focus from the mainstream cinema and went into developing his own movies. These movies were mainly targeted towards people whose social status can at best be described as modest.

He tried to pull out an industry out of this. Initially, he was successful, no doubt, but to have a sustained growth and returns he now needs to pull some other rabbit out of his hat.

In his heyday, earned a huge fan following as a 'dancing star', one who runs a parallel film industry from his South Indian abode of Ooty, is 'God' for a generation of audiences unaware of the Hrithik Roshan and the Sanjay Dutt of this world, who owns an entire chain of hotels in Ooty and one who, was the highest tax payer in the country for five consecutive years, from 1994 to 1999. He has done and continues to do social service all over India.