Rudraprasad Sengupta

Rudraprasad Sengupta (born 31 January 1935) is a Bengali Indian actor, director and cultural critic.

[1][2] He started his professional career as a lecturer of Sreegopal Banerjee College at Mogra, Hooghly and was formerly a reader in English at the Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College, Calcutta, and a visiting lecturer in the Drama Department of Rabindra Bharati University.

He has also appeared in some Bengali art films, Bernardo Bertolucci's Little Buddha, and Roland Joffé's City of Joy.

His daughter Sohini Sengupta is one of the leading actresses in theatre and films.

Many of his students and protegé have gone on to become famous in their own right in Bengali theater, such as Parthapratim Deb and Debshankar Haldar.