With the backing of her mother, his acting career started at the age of only seven at Srirangam Theatre [now known as Biswarupa located at Northern Kolkata] where he played the role of Apurba in Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's Bindur Chele.
[citation needed] His performances in Raja Debidas, Chand Bibi, Sultana Razia and Mahiyashi Kaikeyi were big hits at that time and he became the leading lady of Bengal's jatra in the name of Chapalrani or Queen-Chapal.
In the late sixties when women started to act in the theatre he found himself at a wrong end to cope up with the modern trend and he had to quit.
[1] Chapal Bhaduri revived into fame after Naveen Kishore of the Seagull Foundation for the Arts had made a 44-minute documentary on the actor in 1999.
The third one is Arekti Premer Golpo, a feature film directed by Kaushik Ganguly in which he narrates his life on camera.