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Utpalendu Chakrabarty (1948 – 20 August 2024) was an Indian filmmaker based in Kolkata.

Chakrabarty was born in Pabna District in 1948.^[2] Utpalendu graduated from Scottish Church College, of the University of Calcutta.^[3]

Chakrabarty was involved in left-wing politics in his student life and spent time in Purulia among the tribal.^[4] Although he started out as a teacher, his passion was cinema. He made several documentaries and films. He was once married to Indrani Chakraborty and later divorced.^[5] He remarried to director and activist Satarupa Sanyal but divorced in 2000. His daughters Chitrangada Satarupa and Ritabhari Chakraborty^[6][7] revealed that they had no connection to Utpalendu, their biological father.^[8][9]

He has won the Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director at the 28th National Film Awards in 1980 for Maina Tadanta, the National Film Award for Best Feature Film and Direction at the 30th National Film Awards in 1982 for Chokh, the Berlin International Film Festival OCIC Award in 1983 for Chokh and the National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film at the 32nd National Film Awards in 1984 for Music of Satyajit Ray.^[10]

Chakrabarty died in Kolkata on 20 August 2024, at the age of 76.^[11]

• Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director at the 28th National Film Awards in 1980 for Maina Tadanta
• National Film Award for Best Feature Film at the 30th National Film Awards in 1982 for Chokh^[13]
• National Film Award for Best Direction at the 30th National Film Awards in 1982 for Chokh
• Berlin International Film Festival OCIC Award in 1983 for Chokh
• National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film at the 32nd National Film Awards in 1984 for Music of Satyajit Ray.
• Banga Bibhushan by Government of West Bengal.^[4]

• Calcuttaweb Utpalendu Chakrabarty Archived 4 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
• Utpalendu Chakrabarty at IMDb
• On The Music of Satyajit Ray Archived 27 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
• On Chokh
• On Debshishu^{[link removed]}