Anirban Chakrabarti is an Indian Bengali film actor best known for portrayal of the character of Ekenbabu in a film franchise and separate web series under the same name. He has acted in several other thriller films including Kakababur Protyaborton (2022), Khadaan and Chaalchitro: The Frame Fatale (2024).
He has played the character of Jatayu in a web series directed by Srijit Mukherji and also acted in the internationally multiple award winner film Once Upon a Time in Calcutta directed by Aditya Vikram Sengupta. He is popular for his portrayal of the role of "Ekenbabu" in the films The Eken (2022), The Eken: Ruddhaswas Rajasthan (2023) and The Eken: Benaras e Bibhishika (2025).
Career In 2021, Chakrabarti acted in the internationally multiple award winner film Once Upon a Time in Calcutta. Between 2018 and 2021, Chakrabarti played the lead character Ekenbabu in the Eken Babu web series. His portrayal of the character received positive reception. He also acted in another web series Robindronath Ekhane Kawkhono Khete Aashenni (2021). After the success of Ekenbabu web-series, a film titled The Eken was released in 2022, in which he played the role of Ekenbabu. Following its success, he reprised his role of Ekenbabu in The Eken: Ruddhaswas Rajasthan (2023), which also became a box-office success. In 2023, he also played the lead negative role in Pradhan. In 2024, he acted in a number of films including Shastri and Khadaan, among which the latter went on to become one of the highest grossing Bengali films of all time.
Filmography Films
Year Film Role DirectorRef.2017 Meri Pyaari Bindu Abhi's prospective father-in-lawAkshay Roy2019 Mitin MashiPolice Officer AnishchayArindam Sil2020 Love Aaj Kal PorshuGaneshPratim D. Gupta 2021 MukhoshAdrish Burman Birsa Dasgupta FIR Inspector Paritosh Bairagi Joydip Mukherjee Once Upon a Time in Calcutta Pradipta Aditya Vikram Sengupta 2022 Kakababur Protyaborton Amal De Srijit Mukherji The Eken Ekenbabu Joydip MukherjeeBhotbhotiTathagata Mukherjee Kolkata Chalantika Shibaji Pavel2023Jai Kali KalkattawaliSudeshna Roy & Abhijit GuhaThe Eken: Ruddhaswas RajasthanEkenbabuJoydip MukherjeeCheeni 2Mainak BhaumikPradhanJatileshwar MukherjeeAvijit Sen2024ShastriDipuPathikrit BasuKhadaanBalai MandiSoojit DuttaChaalchitro: The Frame FataleNaseerPratim D. Gupta2025OporichitoInspector Avik DuttaJoydip MukherjeeShotyi Bole Shotyi Kichhu NeiGaurang AggarwalSrijit Mukherjee The Eken: Benaras e Bibhishika Ekenbabu Joydip Mukherjee Mrigaya: The Hunt RudraAbhirup GhoshChandrabindoo Uncle PawRaja ChandaSharthoporLawyer Tarak HalderAnnapurna BasuRanna BaatiGodotPratim D. Gupta Projapati 2 Shakibul Hassan Jhontu Avijit Sen 2026Bibi PayraJagannathArjunn Dutta TBAAnshuman Pratyush
Web series Year Film Role DirectorRef. 2018–2025 Eken Babu web series (Season 1–8) Ekenbabu Anirban Mallik, Anupam Hari, Abhijit Chowdhury, Joydip Mukherjee, Surajit Chatterjee 2019 Water Bottle Joydip Mukherjee2020LalbazaarSayantan Ghosal Feluda Pherot (Season 1) Jatayu Srijit Mukherji2021Maradonar Juto Mainak Bhaumik Robindronath Ekhane Kawkhono Khete Aashenni OC Tapan Sikder Srijit Mukherji2022 Byadh Bishu Abhirup Ghosh Shob ChoritroAbinash MitraDebasish Sen SharmaFeludar Goyendagiri (Season 1) Jatayu Srijit Mukherji2023 Dugdugi Joydeep Mukherjee2024 Feludar Goyendagiri (Season 2) Jatayu Srijit Mukherji Fasco Sujit Bose Anjana Basu 2026KaalipotkaRanaAbhirup Ghosh
Awards West Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards- Best Performance In A Negative Role for FIR OTTplay Award Best Actor in a Comic Role –Series for Eken Babu -Season 6
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