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Bratya Basu
Bratya Basu at a State Theatre event, Kolkata, 2023
Minister of Education, West Bengal
Incumbent
Assumed office 10 May 2021
Governor
Jagdeep Dhankhar
Chief Minister
Mamata Banerjee
Preceded by
Partha Chatterjee
In office 20 May 2011 – 20 May 2014
Chief Minister
Mamata Banerjee
Preceded by
Partha De
Succeeded by
Partha Chatterjee
Minister of Information Technology and Electronics
In office 5 October 2018 – 10 May 2021
Governor
Keshari Nath Tripathi Jagdeep Dhankhar
Chief Minister
Mamata Banerjee
Succeeded by
Ratna De
Minister for Information Technology and Electronics, Government of West Bengal
In office 20 May 2016 – 5 October 2018
Governor
Keshari Nath Tripathi Jagdeep Dhankhar
Chief Minister
Mamata Banerjee
Preceded by
Partha Chatterjee
Succeeded by
Amit Mitra
Minister of Tourism, Government of West Bengal
In office 20 May 2014 – 12 May 2016
Governor
M. K. Narayanan D. Y. Patil
Keshari Nath Tripathi
Chief Minister
Mamata Banerjee
Preceded by
Krishnendu Narayan Choudhury
Succeeded by
Goutam Deb
Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office 2011
Preceded by
Rekha Goswami
Constituency
Dum Dum
Personal details
Born
(1969-09-25) 25 September 1969 (age 54) Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Nationality
Indian
Political party
All India Trinamool Congress
Alma mater
Presidency College, Kolkata University of Calcutta
Bratyabrata Basu Roy Chowdhury (born 25 September 1969),[1] also known as Bratya Basu, is an Indian actor, stage director, playwright, film director, professor and politician who has been the Education Minister of West Bengal since 2021. He has also assumed the same office in the First Mamata Banerjee ministry. In May 2016, Basu was assigned the portfolios of Tourism, Science Technology and Bio-Technology, Information Technology and Electronics.[2][3][4] He has been elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly, from the Dum Dum constituency since the 2011 Assembly Election of West Bengal. Basu is presently the Chairperson of Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi and Minerva Natyasanskriti Charchakendra under the governance of the Department of Information and Cultural Affairs, West Bengal.[5]
Bratyabrata Basu Roy Chowdhury (born 25 September 1969), also known as BratyaBasu, is an Indian actor, stage director, playwright, film director, professor...
2010, Dam appeared in eleven Bengali films, including Tara (directed by BratyaBasu), Takhan Teish (directed by Atanu Ghosh), Moner Manush (directed by Goutam...
All India Trinamool Congress, 26 December 2013. Retrieved 17 July 2014. "Bratya shifted to tourism, Partha new education minister, Mitra to see IT also"...
part of No. 16 Dum Dum (Lok Sabha constituency). In the 2011 elections, BratyaBasu of Trinamool Congress defeated his nearest rival Gautam Deb of CPI(M)...
Bengal he filed his candidature from Dum Dum where he was defeated by BratyaBasu, the Bengali dramatist, director and actor who was a newcomer to politics...
Arpita directed Pancham Vaidic's production “Duto Din” – play written by BratyaBasu. Arpita also acted in a leading role in the production. In 2015, Arpita...
stars Sreelekha Mitra as the protagonist, along with Arindam Ghosh, BratyaBasu, Satrajit Sarkar, Anirban Chakrabarti, Rikita Nandini Shimu and debutant...
Ganguly, Suman Mukhopadhyay, Indranil Roychowdhury, Srijit Mukherji and BratyaBasu. National Film Award for Best Music Direction for Jyeshthoputro Sen,...
needed] He has started his work in the theatre group Antarmukh under Soumitra Basu (1987–1990). After that in Ushnik with Ishita Mukherjee (1990–1993). In Swapnosandhani...
raped by CPI(M) cadres to Writer's Building to the then Chief Minister Jyoti Basu but was harassed by the police before being arrested and put on detention...
India Trinamool Congress Resigned on 04 March 2023 Vacant 114 Dum Dum BratyaBasu All India Trinamool Congress Cabinet Minister 115 Rajarhat New Town Tapash...
Raima Sen, Chiranjeet Chakraborty, BratyaBasu, and Priyanka Sarkar in lead roles, with Neel Mukherjee, Biswanath Basu, and Bhaswar Chatterjee in supporting...
Biswanath Basu (or sometimes Biswanath Bose) is an Indian actor who appears in Bengali films. Key Films Serial Television Programme Bhyabachaka as Anchor...
The reason for his happiness is that Shri Shri Sadgajananda Maharaj (BratyaBasu), a holy man with powers that control even the Andromeda Galaxy (boasted...
and brought up in Delhi. His Bengali debut film was Rasta, directed by BratyaBasu, with Mithun Chakraborty. He has done many Bengali films & Hindi films...
(Director); Aupee Karim, Ritwick Chakraborty, Shohel Mondol, Chandrayee Ghosh, BratyaBasu, Kamalika Banerjee, Paran Bandopadhyay M A R 3 Ora 7 Jon KHK Productions...
earlier. Roy featured as the titular protagonist in BratyaBasu's Teesta (2005). It is inspired by Basu's play Mukhomukhi Bosibar. She portrayed Teesta who...
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