| Name | Mithun Chakraborty |
| Birth | 16 June 1950, Calcutta |
Mithun Chakraborty Born in Calcutta and educated at the Scottish Church
College, Calcutta, where he studied chemistry, Mithun Chakraborty is a
leading actor in the Bollywood and the south Indian film industry. He
started his film career in a Bengali film made by Mrinal Sen. He shot
into national prominence with his films Disco Dancer, Agneepath and was
at one time , regarded as a rival to Amitabh Bachchan.
He has done and continues to do social service all over India.
IF LIFE IS A JOURNEY, then Mithun Chakraborty's has been a fascinating travelogue indeed. His voyage took off as a Naxalite in Calcutta, and his first station was the Film And Television Institute Of India, Pune. All he managed after graduation was paid dancing at social bashes as Rana Rez, or bit roles in 'Do Anjaane' and 'Phool Khile Hai Gulshan Gulshan'.
Then came his first featured role, as an exploited tribal in Mrinal Sen's 'Mrigaya' (1976), which won him nothing less than his first National Award (the second came in 1998 for'Swami Vivekananda'). But in between these two awards separated by 22 years were commercial films of all kinds, after Mithun established his dancing and action credentials in Ravee Nagaich's 'Suraksha' (1978). Followed films like 'Disco Dancer' (which was a hit in China as well), 'Dance Dance' and the likes which gave him the image of a desi, rather crude navel-flaunting John Travolta. The bhadralok of the Mumbai industry Shakti Samanta ('Khwab', 'Amne Saamne', 'Ahankaar'), Basu Chaterjee ('Prem Vivah', 'Shaukeen', 'Pasand Apni Apni'), Dulal Guha ('Dhuan', 'Sagar Sangam', 'Ilaaka') and Pramod Chakraborty ('Patita', 'Jagir') gave him respectable but not-always-worthy vehicles.
Mithun also became a favourite with certain Southern directors like K. Bapaiah , T. Rama Rao and Bapu. Through them, he got several of his meatiest and most-respected roles like 'Hum Paanch' (1981), 'Mujhe Insaaf Chahiye' (1983 and with a touch of villainy), 'Ghar Ek Mandir' (1984) and 'Prem Pratigya' (1989). On the heels of a consecutive streak of hits, beginning with the Mills-N-Boon-esque 'Pyarjhukta Nahin' (1985), the actor even rose to become one of our distributor's pet heroes in the late '80s and early '90s, getting a fresh lease of life with his action avtaar in films like 'Aandhi Toofan', 'Jaal', 'Dilwala', 'Phool Aur Angaar' and 'Dalaal', side-by-side with the Chennai melodramas like 'Parivaar' and 'Pyar Ka Mandir'. He even added to his list of filmmakers names as revered as Manmohan Desai ('Ganga Jamuna Saraswati'), K. Vishwanath ('Jaag Utha Insaan'), J. Om Prakash ('Agnee') and Dev Anand ('Swami Dada') and banners as prestigious as B.R. Films ('Pratigyabadh') and Prakash Mehra Productions ('Dalaal'). His first marriage to Helena Luke had broken up and Mithun first lost his heart to Ranjeeta, the actress who really promoted his career in its initial years. After their break-up, Mithun found happiness in ex-actress Yogeeta Bali's arms and eventually got married to her. The only sore point in the marriage was Mithun's passionate liaison with Sridevi in the late '80s and his secret, whirlwind wedding with her.
But Mithun returned to Yogeeta after Sridevi dumped him in pusuit of a flourishing career. Mithun and Yogeeta have had a smooth sailing ever since. Together, they began the five-star Monarch Hotel in Ooty, where (hey settled down, and later adopted a daughter to add to their own sons. With Ooty as his base in the mid-'90s, Mithun too emerged as the monarch of a parallel film industry, shooting B-grade action flicks made by the likes of TLV Prasad, Rajiv Babbar and others, with skimpily-clad anonymous Southern heroines and an equally skimpy budget of Rs. 60 lakhs, Mithun cornering almost half of it as his fees. Most of these films — conceived, shot and released within three months — recovered their investments or made decent profits from the 'action-crazy' interiors of the North and East, and Mithun even managed a couple of Best Villain awards for one of the earlier successes in this genre — 'Jallad' (1995). Later successes include 'ChandaaF, 'Shapath', 'Jodidar', 'Suraj', 'Kaalia', 'Raavan Raaj' and a few others. But today, this industry is on its last legs, though Mithun has made his moolah. The films are getting shoddier, more difficult to sell (and watch) and keep coming in and vamoosing at a rate of one a month. A sad contretemps for an actor who achieved whatever he did primarily on his earthy talent, and proved that you don't have to look like either Adonis or a sweet confection to click hugely in capricious Bollywood.
He has done and continues to do social service all over India.
IF LIFE IS A JOURNEY, then Mithun Chakraborty's has been a fascinating travelogue indeed. His voyage took off as a Naxalite in Calcutta, and his first station was the Film And Television Institute Of India, Pune. All he managed after graduation was paid dancing at social bashes as Rana Rez, or bit roles in 'Do Anjaane' and 'Phool Khile Hai Gulshan Gulshan'.
Then came his first featured role, as an exploited tribal in Mrinal Sen's 'Mrigaya' (1976), which won him nothing less than his first National Award (the second came in 1998 for'Swami Vivekananda'). But in between these two awards separated by 22 years were commercial films of all kinds, after Mithun established his dancing and action credentials in Ravee Nagaich's 'Suraksha' (1978). Followed films like 'Disco Dancer' (which was a hit in China as well), 'Dance Dance' and the likes which gave him the image of a desi, rather crude navel-flaunting John Travolta. The bhadralok of the Mumbai industry Shakti Samanta ('Khwab', 'Amne Saamne', 'Ahankaar'), Basu Chaterjee ('Prem Vivah', 'Shaukeen', 'Pasand Apni Apni'), Dulal Guha ('Dhuan', 'Sagar Sangam', 'Ilaaka') and Pramod Chakraborty ('Patita', 'Jagir') gave him respectable but not-always-worthy vehicles.
Mithun also became a favourite with certain Southern directors like K. Bapaiah , T. Rama Rao and Bapu. Through them, he got several of his meatiest and most-respected roles like 'Hum Paanch' (1981), 'Mujhe Insaaf Chahiye' (1983 and with a touch of villainy), 'Ghar Ek Mandir' (1984) and 'Prem Pratigya' (1989). On the heels of a consecutive streak of hits, beginning with the Mills-N-Boon-esque 'Pyarjhukta Nahin' (1985), the actor even rose to become one of our distributor's pet heroes in the late '80s and early '90s, getting a fresh lease of life with his action avtaar in films like 'Aandhi Toofan', 'Jaal', 'Dilwala', 'Phool Aur Angaar' and 'Dalaal', side-by-side with the Chennai melodramas like 'Parivaar' and 'Pyar Ka Mandir'. He even added to his list of filmmakers names as revered as Manmohan Desai ('Ganga Jamuna Saraswati'), K. Vishwanath ('Jaag Utha Insaan'), J. Om Prakash ('Agnee') and Dev Anand ('Swami Dada') and banners as prestigious as B.R. Films ('Pratigyabadh') and Prakash Mehra Productions ('Dalaal'). His first marriage to Helena Luke had broken up and Mithun first lost his heart to Ranjeeta, the actress who really promoted his career in its initial years. After their break-up, Mithun found happiness in ex-actress Yogeeta Bali's arms and eventually got married to her. The only sore point in the marriage was Mithun's passionate liaison with Sridevi in the late '80s and his secret, whirlwind wedding with her.
But Mithun returned to Yogeeta after Sridevi dumped him in pusuit of a flourishing career. Mithun and Yogeeta have had a smooth sailing ever since. Together, they began the five-star Monarch Hotel in Ooty, where (hey settled down, and later adopted a daughter to add to their own sons. With Ooty as his base in the mid-'90s, Mithun too emerged as the monarch of a parallel film industry, shooting B-grade action flicks made by the likes of TLV Prasad, Rajiv Babbar and others, with skimpily-clad anonymous Southern heroines and an equally skimpy budget of Rs. 60 lakhs, Mithun cornering almost half of it as his fees. Most of these films — conceived, shot and released within three months — recovered their investments or made decent profits from the 'action-crazy' interiors of the North and East, and Mithun even managed a couple of Best Villain awards for one of the earlier successes in this genre — 'Jallad' (1995). Later successes include 'ChandaaF, 'Shapath', 'Jodidar', 'Suraj', 'Kaalia', 'Raavan Raaj' and a few others. But today, this industry is on its last legs, though Mithun has made his moolah. The films are getting shoddier, more difficult to sell (and watch) and keep coming in and vamoosing at a rate of one a month. A sad contretemps for an actor who achieved whatever he did primarily on his earthy talent, and proved that you don't have to look like either Adonis or a sweet confection to click hugely in capricious Bollywood.
| 69 Hindi Movies are listed | ||
| Year | Film Name | Cast |
| 2010 | VEER | Salman Khan, Mithun Chakraborty, Lisa Lazarus, Jackie Shroff, Sohail Khan, Neena Gupta, Zarine Khan, Vinay Apte, Bharat Dabholkar, Shahbaaz Khan, Rajesh Vivek, Yogesh Suri, Ashok Samarth, Tim Laurence, William Chubb, Gita Soto, Aryan Vaid |
| 2010 | GOLMAAL 3 | Ajay Devgan, Kareena Kapoor, Mithun Chakraborty, Tusshar Kapoor, Ratna Pathak, Kunal Khemu, Johnny Lever, Arshad Warsi, Sanjay Mishra, Vrajesh Hirjee, Ashwini Kalsekar, Murli Sharma, Mukesh Tiwari, Vijay Patkar |
| 2009 | ZOR LAGAA KE... HAIYA! | Mithun Chakraborty, Riya Sen, Sachin Khedekar, Gulshan Grover, Mahesh Manjrekar, Seema Biswas, Raj Zutshi, Ashwin Chitale, Ritwik Tyagi, Meghan Jadhav, Ayeshka Kaduskar, Hardik S. Thakkar |
| 2009 | CHAL CHALEIN | Mithun Chakraborty, Rati Agnihotri, Mukesh Khanna, Anup Soni, Shilpa Shukla, Jaya Bhattacharya, Kanwaljeet |
| 2009 | CHANDNI CHOWK TO CHINA | Deepika Padukone, Akshay Kumar, Mithun Chakraborty, Ranvir Shorey, Gordon Liu, Roger Yuan |
| 2009 | LUCK | Sanjay Dutt, Imran Khan, Mithun Chakraborty, Shruti Haasan, Danny Denzongpa, Ravi Kishan, Chitrashi Rawat |
| 2009 | BAABARR | Mithun Chakraborty, Soham, Urvashi Sharma, Om Puri, Sushant Singh, Mukesh Tiwari, Tinu Anand, Govind Namdeo, Shakti Kapoor, Vivek Shauq, Vishwajeet Pradhan |
| 2008 | MY NAME IS ANTHONY GONSALVES | Nikhil Dwivedi, Amrita Rao, D Santosh, Lilete Dubey, Pawan Malhotra, Mukesh Tiwari,Maqsood, Daya Shanker Pandey, Javed Sheikh , Anupam Kher, Ishteyak, Saurabh Shukla, Hrishita Bhatt, Kunal Kumar, Mithun Chakraborty, Manoj Pahwa, Priyanka Chopra, Anil Kapoor |
| 2008 | HEROES | Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol, Dino Morea, Riya Sen, Salman Khan, Mithun Chakraborty, Sohail Khan, Preity Zinta, Amrita Arora, Vatsal Sheth |
| 2008 | DON MUTHUSWAMI | Hrishita Bhatt, Mithun Chakraborty, Shakti Kapoor, Rohit Roy, Ali Asgar, Dolly Minhas, Shakti Kapoor, Dilip Joshi, Rakesh Bedi, Meghna Malik, Ali Asgar, Viju Khote, Ashwin Kaushal, Achyut Potdar, Birbal, Upasna Singh, Ali Razak, Yusuf Hussain, Mohit Raina, Vishal Kotian, Sonia Kapoor |
| 2008 | C KKOMPANY | Tusshar Kapoor, Raima Sen, Mithun Chakraborty, Anupam Kher, Rajpal Yadav |
| 2007 | GURU | Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Vidya Balan,R. Madhavan, Mallika Sherawat, Mithun Chakraborty, John Abraham, Arjan Bajwa |
| 2006 | CHINGAARI | Mithun Chakraborty , Sushmita Sen, Anuj Sawhney |
| 2006 | SUN ZARRA | Sameer Aftab, Mithun Chakraborty, Anjana Sukhani |
| 2006 | INSAAF KI JUNG | Mithun Chakraborty, Ram Asra, Suvarna Sindhu, Shraddha Sharma |
| 2006 | DIL DIYA HAI | Emran Hashmi, Ashmit Patel, Mithun Chakraborty, Udita Goswami, Geeta Basra, Kittu Gidwani |
| 2006 | KACHCHI SADAK | Rahul Singh, Parmita Katkar, Amrish Puri, Madhoo, Mukesh Tiwari, Rahul Dev, Aman Verma, Govind Namdeo, Sharat Saxena, Tinu Anand, Anant Jog, Mithun Chakraborty |
| 2005 | LUCKY | Salman Khan, Mithun Chakraborty, Sneha Ullal, Kader Khan, Vikram Gokhale |
| 2005 | CLASSIC | Mithun Chakraborty, Meghna Naidu, Vvikas Bhardwaj, Navin Nishchol |
| 2005 | ELAAN | Rahul Khanna, Arjun Rampal, Mithun Chakraborty, John Abraham, Lara Dutta, Amisha Patel |
| 2000 | HITLER | Mithun Chakraborty, Manik Bedi, Deepti Bhatnagar |
| 2000 | MILITARY RAAJ | Mithun Chakraborty, Aditya Panscholi, Siddhart |
| 1999 | GANGA KI KASAM | Mithun Chakraborty, Jackie Shorff, Deepti Bhatnagar |
| 1999 | PHOOL AUR AAG | Mithun Chakraborty, Jackie Shroff, (intr.) Archana, Ayesha Jhulka, Aruna Irani |
| 1998 | HIMMATWALA | Mithun Chakraborty, Ayesha Jhulka, Reema Lagoo |
| 1998 | USTAADON KE USTAAD | Jackie Shroff, Mithun Chakraborty, Madhoo |
| 1998 | YAMRAAJ | Mithun Chakraborty, Jackie Shroff, Mink |
| 1998 | DEVTA | Mithun Chakraborty, Aditya Panscholi, Kiran Kumar |
| 1997 | JODIDAR | Mithun Chakraborty, Aditya Panscholi, Prem Chopra |
| 1997 | SHAPATH | Mithun Chakraborty, Jackie Shroff, Ramya |
| 1997 | KAALIA | Mithun Chakraborty, Deepti Bhatnagar, Sheeba |
| 1997 | LOHA | Govinda, Dharmendra, Mithun Chakraborty |
| 1997 | SURAJ | Mithun Chakraborty, Ayesha Jhulka, Suresh Oberoi |
| 1996 | MUQADAR | Mithun Chakraborty, Ayesha Jhulka, Rohit Kumar |
| 1996 | JUNG | Mithun Chakraborty, Aditya Panscholi, Ajay Devgan |
| 1996 | APNE DAM PAR | Mithun Chakraborty, Shilpa Shirodkar, Raza Murad, Govinda, Ayesha Jhulka, Sonali Bendre |
| 1995 | AHANKAAR | Mithun Chakraborty, Mamta Kulkarni, Prem Chopra, Aruna Irani |
| 1995 | GUNEHGAR | Mithun Chakraborty, Pooja Bhatt, Atul |
| 1995 | NAARAAZ | Mithun Chakraborty, Pooja Bhatt, Atul Agnihotri, Sonali Bendre |
| 1995 | THE DON | Mithun Chakraborty, Jugal Hansraj, Sonali Bendre |
| 1995 | RAVAN RAJ | Mithun Chakraborty, Madhoo, Aditya Panscholi |
| 1995 | SURAKSHAA | Mithun Chakraborty, Saif Ali Khan, Sunil Shetty, Ranjeeta, Sheeba, Aditya Pancholi, Jagdeep, Kader Khan, Aruna Irani, Divya Dutta, Monica Bedi, Achyut Poddar,Arun Bakshi, Iftekhar, Mukesh Rishi, Suresh Oberoi, Tej Sapru,Tinu Anand, Jeevan, Prema Narayan, Mala Jaggi |
| 1994 | KRANTI KSHETRA | Mithun Chakraborty, Pooja Bhatt, Harish |
| 1994 | YAAR GADDAR | Mithun Chakraborty, Saif Ali Khan, Somy Ali, Sweta Umesh Shukla, Prem Chopra, Puneet Isaar, Himani Shivpuri, Johny Lever, Anjana Mumtaz, Yunus Perwaiz, Amrit Pal, Shobha Khote, Jugnu |
| 1994 | PARAMAATMA | Mithun Chakraborty, Juhi Chawla, Amrish Puri |
| 1993 | SHATRANJ | Jackie Shroff, Juhi Chawla, Mithun Chakraborty |
| 1993 | DALAAL | Mithun Chakraborty, Ayesha Jhulka, Ravi Behl |
| 1992 | MERE SAJNA SAATH NIBHANA | Mithun Chakraborty, Juhi Chawla, Shanti Priya |
| 1992 | TADIPAAR | Mithun Chakraborty, Pooja Bhatt, Juhi Chawla |
| 1990 | SHANDAAR | Juhi Chawla, Mithun Chakraborty, Meenakshi Sheshadri |
| 1990 | PYAR KA DEVATA | Madhuri Dixit, Mithun Chakraborty |
| 1990 | PYAR KE NAAM QURBAN | Mithun Chakraborty, Mandakini, Dimple Kapadia |
| 1990 | AGNEEPATH | Amitabh Bachchan, Mithun Chakraborty, Danny, Neelam Kothari |
| 1989 | BHRASHTACHAR | Rekha, Shilpa Shirodkar, Mithun Chakraborty, Anupam Kher |
| 1989 | LADAAI | Mithun Chakraborty, Rekha, Anupam Kher, Aditya Panscholi |
| 1989 | GURU | Sridevi, Mithun Chakraborty, Nutan |
| 1989 | MUJRIM | Madhuri Dixit, Mithun Chakraborty |
| 1989 | PREM PRATIGYA | Madhuri Dixit, Mithun Chakraborty, Vinod Mehra |
| 1989 | GALIYON KA BADSHAH | Mithun Chakraborty, Raj Kumar, Hema Malini |
| 1988 | JEETE HAIN SHAAN SE | Mithun Chakraborty, Mandakini, Sanjay Dutt, Govinda |
| 1988 | ILAAKA | Mithun Chakraborty, Sanjay Dutt, Madhuri Dixit |
| 1988 | BEES SAAL BAAD | Dimple Kapadia, Mithun Chakraborty |
| 1988 | SAAZISH | Mithun Chakraborty, Dimple Kapadia, Raaj Kumar |
| 1988 | WAQT KI AWAAZ | Sridevi, Mithun Chakraborty |
| 1987 | WATAN KE RAKHWALE | Sridevi, Mithun Chakraborty |
| 1984 | JAAG UTHA INSAN | Raakesh Roshan, Mithun Chakraborty, Sridevi |
| 1984 | SAHARA | Mithun Chakraborty, Hema Malini, Tina Munim |
| 1982 | SWAMI DADA | Mithun Chakraborty, Jackie Shroff |
| 1980 | HUM PAANCH | Sanjeev Kumar, Mithun Chakraborty, Deepti, Anil Kapoor |
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