Avijit Dutt

Avijit Dutt is an Indian filmmaker, actor, theater director and communications consultant. Living and working out of Kolkata. He has done his masters from Calcutta University in English Literature and began his career at an English Faculty in St. Paul's School, Darjeeling.

As a theatre director and actor he has done over 100 plays in English, Hindi & Bengali. He has written seven full-length plays:

• Bamboo Flower
• Mahatma Mar Gaya
• Bombay! Bosnia!
• Breaking News
• Noor Jahan- An Empress Reveals
• Unspeakable
• 9.45 ki Express ki Citee

He has also dramatised 1084 ki Ma, by Mahasweta Devi, with Shyamanand Jalan.

He launched the Childline with UNICEF & National Human Rights Commission.

Dutt has played noted roles in Hollywood movies like Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love and Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. He has also acted in Madras Cafe as a Research and Analysis Wing officer, in Jolly LLB2 as state police head and in No One Killed Jessica as a defense lawyer.

In addition to his acting work, he has applied for two patents, one for a toilet solution and another cor a process of collecting, testing and documenting blood tests. He is Chief Motivator and Director for his organisation Enable, which has built toilets across North India, thoug His organisation, Enable, of which Dutt is Chief Motivator and Director, has built toilets across north India, though not the one he has patented. They have covered over 60,000 beneficiaries across 68 villages in India.^[1]

He has also been a TED Talks speaker at various events.

In 2025, his first novel -Gajraj - An Elephant Remembers, published by Olympia Publishers, London was launched in an event at the Oxford Bookstore, Kolkata, India to a collection of readers and litterateurs and received with appreciation.

• Avijit Dutt at IMDb