Bhaswar Chattopadhyay

Bhaswar Chatterjee runs an NGO, "Aparna Foundation" in his mother's name, which assists the poor and needy. The foundation started collecting used clothes and accessories and distributed them to different parts of Kolkata and its outskirts. Later in 2021 during pandemic, it worked extensively in Kolkata where it fed the pavement dwellers for continuous 22 days along with Puri, Katra and specially Kashmir.The Ngo supplied a month’s ration to ghorawalas and pitthuwalas of Vaishnodevi Temple, to the houseboat caretakers in Srinagar, helped in marriage of a Kashmiri girl, build a house for a poor family. It also helps a number of girl children with studies in Kashmir.

He was a member of Indian censor board from 2014 to 2017.

In 1998, his first appearance on television was in Jaltaranga followed by Bishnu Pal Chowdhury's Kanakanjali. Chatterjee established himself in the Bollywood industry with The Legend of Bhagat Singh in 2002 by playing Batukeshwar Dutt, and with the daily soap Janmobhumi in 2003. As of 2020, he has appeared in 57 daily soaps and a total of 111 serials in the Bengali language.

He was a student of South Point School for his high school years, and graduated in bioscience from Asutosh College. Before getting his first job in GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals in 1996, he obtained a diploma in marketing and sales management from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan.

Bhaswar Chattopadhyay or Bhaswar Chatterjee (born 8 March 1975) is a Bengali film and television actor. He attended high school at South Point School and graduated in bioscience from Asutosh College. Before getting his first job in GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals in 1996, he obtained a diploma in marketing and sales management from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan.

Though he belongs to a family of four generations of engineers, he always wanted to be an actor. Probably his acting genes comes from his mother's side whose uncle Devi Mukherjee was a star actor in the 1940s.

Bhaswar's great grandfather, the late Bhimchandra Chatterjee, though an electrical engineer, was the architect of the Benares Hindu university (on insistence of the late Madan Mohan Malviya). His Elements of applied electricity books were in circulation a few years back. He was the Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Benaras Hindu University in 1936.