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{{Short description|Indian actor}}
{{more citations needed|date=August 2024}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}}
{{Use Indian English|date=February 2016}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Tapen Chatterjee
| image =
| alt =
| caption = Chatterjee (right) as [[Goopy Gyne|Goopy]] in ''[[Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne]]''
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1937|09|03}}
| birth_place = Calcutta, [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|2010|05|24|1937|09|03|df=yes}}<ref name="III2011">{{cite book|author=Harris M. Lentz III|title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2010|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UX_GCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA65|date=8 June 2011|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-8649-6|page=65}}</ref>
| death_place = Kolkata, West Bengal, India
| nationality = Indian
| other_names =
| known_for = ''Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne'' (1969)<br/> {{Lang|bn-latn|[[Heerak Rajar Deshe]]}} (1980)<br/> ''[[Goopy Bagha Phire Elo]]'' (1991)
| occupation = Actor
}}
'''Tapen Chatterjee''' (3 September 1937 – 24 May 2010) was a [[Bengali people|Bengali]] actor from India who played several roles in [[Satyajit Ray]]'s films, notably as [[Goopy Gyne]] in ''[[Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne]]'' (1968), and its sequels {{Lang|bn-latn|[[Heerak Rajar Deshe]]}} (1980) and ''[[Goopy Bagha Phire Elo]]'' (1992). Chatterjee died on 24 May 2010 at the age of 72. He was suffering from pulmonary ailments.

==Career==
As a qualified engineer, Chatterjee had a job in [[Rajasthan]], following which he came back to [[Kolkata]] and joined ''[[Sandesh (magazine)|Sandesh]]'', the Bengali magazine revived by [[Satyajit Ray]]. He started his career in the advertisement department of the children's magazine Sandesh. Ray cast him in a cameo in ''[[Mahanagar]]'' and then famously as the singer [[Goopy Gyne]] in ''[[Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne]]''. The song ''Aaha Ki Aananda Aakshe Batashe'' filmed on him Goopy and ''[[Rabi Ghosh]]'' as [[Bagha Byne]] still stirs the memory of the ''[[Bengali language|Bengali]]'' film lovers.

==Filmography==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! Notes
|-
|1963|| ''[[Mahanagar]]'' || ||
|-
|1969|| ''[[Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne]]'' || [[Goopy Gyne]] ||
|-
|1970|| ''[[Rupasi]]'' || Handa, Balaram's brother ||<ref>http://www.gomolo.com/rupasi-movie-cast-crew/{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
|-
|1971|| ''[[Dhanyee Meye]]'' || Sabitri's brother ||
|-
|1973|| ''[[Shriman Prithviraj]]'' || School Sentry ||
|-
|1973|| ''[[Nanigopaler Biye]]'' || Dilip ||
|-
|1974|| ''[[Sangini (film)|Sangini]]'' || ||
|-
|1974|| ''Bikele Bhorer Phul'' || ||
|-
|1974|| ''[[Thagini]]'' || ||
|-
|1977|| ''Bhola Moira'' || ||
|-
|1977|| ''Hate Raila Tin'' || ||
|-
|1979|| ''[[Ganadevata (film)|Ganadevata]]'' || Tara Napit ||
|-
|1980|| ''[[Aanchal (1980 film)|Aanchal]]'' || || Produced
|-
|1980|| {{Lang|bn-latn|[[Heerak Rajar Deshe]]}} || Goopy Gayen ||
|-
|1991|| ''[[Goopy Bagha Phire Elo]]'' || Goopy ||
|-
|1996|| ''Rabibar'' || ||
|-
|1997|| ''Sriman Bhootnath'' || ||
|-
|2009|| ''Narak Guljar'' || || (final film role)
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb name|0154170|Tapan Chatterjee}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100528104910/http://www.hindustantimes.com/Satyajit-Ray-s-Goopy-is-no-more/Article1-547978.aspx Satyajit Ray's Goopy is no more] (archived 28 May 2010)

{{Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne}}
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[[Category:1937 births]]
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[[Category:Bengali male actors]]
[[Category:Deaths from lung disease]]
[[Category:Indian male film actors]]
[[Category:Male actors in Bengali cinema]]
[[Category:Male actors from Kolkata]]

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