Biography
Narugopal Mandal(DOB - 25th, August1975) had stepped into Kolkata nearly twenty years back-with colorful dreams of making it big in this City of Joy.
Hailing from East Midnapore,West Bengal, India: from very poor background- it is highly commendable, that this multi talented youth walked roughest of roads, to own his own production house (Sri Sri Om Narasingha Jue Production) presently, creating a niche for himself in the Industry.
His journey started with winning tremendous accolades for directing " Megh Bhanga Roddur " at 19th Kolkata International Film Festival(2013). Carrying the good work forward -He has done number of short films,feature films,music videos and documentaries, with a few being namely-"Akash Akhono Nil", "The Nagorik","Secret Love Story" ",Barude Fuler Gandho", "Nosto Purush","Chena Premer Golpo","Abalamban", "Droupadi The Horror Night", " Sonshar Simanto", "Zero Theke Hero", "Valentines Day", " Uncut", "Past Present Future", "Aanchal Pe Aa" , "Sap-Ludo", "Ektu Bhalobasar Janno", "Nacho To Dekhi","Doli Uthe Se Pahele","Chawa Pawa", "Yaadein" & other films.
He considers it his good fortune and personal milestones, that actors like-Soumitra Chatterjee, Lily Chakraborty, Abhishek Chatterjee, Mustuq Khan, Rittika Sen, Meghna Halder, Palash Ganguly, Manashi Sinha, Moubani Sorcar, Rakesh Bedi, Gita Dey, Manoj Mitra, Dipankar Dey, Biswajit Chakraborty, George Baker, Shrila Majumder, Santana Bose, Ashok Mukherjee, Moumita Gupta, Debraj Roy, Kallyan Chatterjee, Bodhisattya Majumder, Soma Chakraborty, Kharaj Mukherjee, Anamika Saha, Mousumi Saha, Bhola Tamang, Sumanta Mukherjee, Roma Guha, Joy Sengupta, Anuradha Roy, Kallyani Mondal, Diganta Bagchi, Sucheta Chakraborty, Rupanjana Mitra, Snghamitra Banerjee Partha Sarathi Deb, Raju Majumder, Partha Sarathi Chakraborty, Sumit Ganguly & others, have worked under his direction in Hindi,Bengali & Bhojpuri films. Though many have coaxed him to pursue acting career(he is just awesome) , directing a film has always remained his first love.
This, looks wise unassuming multi talented person also comes up with his rare collection of own stories/scripts. His Lyrics have had many composers and singers namely-Kumar Sanu, Udit Narayan, Sadhana Sargam, Anuradha Paudwal, Abhijeet, Monali Thakur, Zubin Garg, Rupankar Bagchi, Anwesha Duttagupta, Monomoy Bhattacharya, June Banerjee, Jolly Mukherjee, Anik Dhar, Jojo Mukherjee, Jeneva Roy, Arup Pranay (Music Director), Kanu Bhattacharya(Music Director), Anupam Dutta (Music Director), Nilakash Roy(Music Director) & others, lending their talents to give shape to lovely creations.
Narugopal Mandal's driving force which egged him on to join and continue in film and glamour world starts from his parents (Father Sri Shyam Sundar Mandal & Mother Late Lata Rani Mandal) and some, (Anjan Banerjee, Somnath Kar, Shyamal Utthasini ,Swapan Pakhira. ) who really left an indelible mark towards shaping his career.
A feeling of satisfaction - he would like to share is, that, during his association with the film industry, he considers himself tremendously lucky to have shared working moments with legendary personalities viz Aparna Sen, Shabana Azmi, Konkona Sen Sharma, Rahul Bose, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Soumitra Chatterjee, (15 Park Avenue ), Mithun Chakraborty, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, N.K.Salil(Cheetah Bengali Film ),Lily Chakravarty , Ritobrata Bhattacharya, Dev Ganguly, Monika Ganguly, Dulal Lahiri, Moubani Sorcar, Iman Chakraborty, Rajiv Dutta, Rakhi Dutta, Rik Basu, Debashish Ganguly, Tanmoy Roy, ( Sesh Chithi ), Rupankar Bagchi, (Akash Akhono Nil), Shakuntala Barua,Oindrila Chakraborty, Abhishek Chatterjee, Chiranjit, Gita Dey, Manoj Mitra, Sumitra Mukherjee, Tapas Pal, Mishar Ray, Satabdi Roy, Anil Ghosh, Swapan Nayek, Somnath Kar, Ajit Mandal, Bhim Naskar, Sushil Das, Shambhu Mukherjee, Pratik Chowdhury, Indranil Sen, Babul Supriyo, Usha Uthup, Subhendu Chatterjee, Buddhadeb Ganguly, Amit Ganguly, Sreeradha Bandyopadhyay , Mita chatterjee , (Sreemati Bhayankari ), Firdous Ahmed, Rimjhim Gupta, Debraj Ray, Sanjib Sarkar, Chandan Roy Chowdhury , Gautam Satvaya ,(Rong Be Rong), Rita Dutta Chakraborty , Arun Bannerjee , Meghna Halder, Bidesh Sarkar, (Parajita Samrat), Arijit Choudhury, Arpita De Roy, Partha Sarathi Deb, Rupanjana Mitra, Kalyan Chatterjee, Sucheta Chakraborty, Diganta Bagchi, Prasad Mitra, Zakir Hussain, Om,( Ektu Bhalobasar Janno ) , Sampurna Lahiri, Niladri Lahiri, Arka Majumder, Shamal Utthasini, Pallabi Debnath,( Bhalobasi Sudhu Tomake ), Anjana Basu, Rana Mitra , Jagannath Guha, Krishna Kishore Mukherjee, Rudranil Ghosh, Chandan Sen, Mita chattopadhyay, Chaiti Ghoshal, Bidesh Sarkar, (Alor Thikana) , Inder Kumar, Biplab Chatterjee, Kaushik Banerjee, Sujit Guha, Ranjit Mallick, Ashok Mukherjee, Santu Mukherjee, Laboni Sarkar, Ashok Mukherjee, ( Agnipath ), Shaan, Arup Pranoy, Sunil Mukherjee, Debojit Saha, Gautam Barat, Jayanta Laha, Debashis Roy, Bodhisattva Mazumdar, Soma Chakraborty, Anweshaa, Vicky Deb, Noorjahan, Trisha Khan, Priyo Chatterjee, Kamal Nath, ( Unish Kurir Golpo ),Naffe Khan, Suresh Bery , Amita Nangiya , Debolina Dutta (Rajnandini) , Ramesh Joshi, Janak Ghosh, Baidyanath Basak, Ajit Kar, Shankar Guha, Babloo Chakravorty, Babloo Chakraborty, Swapan Nayek , Prasad Mitra,Nilkamal Roy , Tusu Chanda, A. Pranay( Pranoy Adhikari),(Arup Pranoy),June Banerjee, Sri Barun, Goutam Susmit,Debaprasad Chakraborty, Lagnajita Chakraborty,Smarajit Bondhyopadhay, Priyo Chattopaadhyaay, Debanshu Chakraborty, Shibdas Bandyopadhyay, Pulak Banerjee, Bijoy Roy, Bholanath Biswas, Pallab Biswas, Kundan Saha, Sanjoy Chakraborty, Biresh Chatterjee, Ratan Adhikar, Ratan Adhikari, Amal Ray Ghatak, Bimal Dey, Sridip Ghosh, Murari Chakraborty, Barun Raha, Kalidas Chakraborty, Amay Laha, Shakti Thakur, Banasree Sengupta, Kailash Sharma, Swapan Saha, Haimanti Shukla, PC Sorcar Junior., Piya Sengupta, Krishna Narayan Daga, Jaya Prasad R. Nayan Moni Ghosh, Anmol Saha to name a few.
Life's high waves and low ebbs failed to dampen his undying spirit of creation, as Narugopal Mandal wants to again walk this earth as a director and a positive thinking human in his next birth, leaving a legacy behind where ever he walks.
He is a living example of what-grit, determination, target obsession and positive thinking can do and achieve for us, if we really want to. His "Never Quit" attitude is pushing him towards his goal- we can only wish all success to a fighter like him.
