Kushal Chakraborty (born 21 July 1968) is an Indian actor and film director associated with Bengali cinema.

[1] At the age of six,[2] he played the role of Mukul in Satyajit Ray's film Sonar Kella for which he won National Film Award for best child artist in 1974.

He introduced Rituparna Sengupta to showbiz with his directorial venture Shwet Kapot (1989).

[4] Kushal is a civil engineering graduate from Jadavpur University.

After divorce he remarried actress Sancharee Mukherjee in January 2015.