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