Sourav Mukhopadhyay

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Sourav Mukhopadhyay Biography

Sourav was born in Hooghly on 24 April 1973. He spent his childhood in Uttar Jhapardaha,Domjur, Howrah and living there till now. He completed his schooling from Makardaha Bamasundari institution in 1991. He became graduate in English from Narasinha Dutt College in 1994. he hails from Domjur.

Sourav Mukhopadhyay (Bengali:সৌরভ মুখোপাধ্যায়, born 24 April 1973)is a Bengali author from India. He has written several Bengali stories and novels for both adults and children. He is mostly admired for his novel Dhulokhela( Bengali: ধুলোখেলা), based on Singur land movement, published in Desh (Bengali: দেশ), an esteemed Bengali language literary magazine published by ABP Group.

Sourav’s tryst with publishing began in 2003 when he wrote three stories, which were published simultaneously in three leading magazines in 2004. Bipannya(Bengali: বিপন্ন) was published in Saptahik Bartaman(Bengali: সাপ্তাহিক বর্তমান) , after few months Merudandi in Desh and Joutuk in Sananda.

Having a great acceptance from publishers as well as readers, Sourav started sending his short stories to different magazines. In 2005, Sourav won second prize at a competition for comic stories organised by Desh . By 2009, 20 of his short stories had been published.

His 1st story for children, E thief.com was published in Anadamela a Bengali children’s magazine in April, 2006.

Padmanabha Dasgupta totally denied the allegation saying that he finished the first draft of the script on December 21, 2007. Rudranil Ghosh (the lead actor of the film), Anindo Banerjee (director of the film) and many other people from Tollywood industry stood for Padmanabha Dasgupta.

In 2009, Sourav started writing his 1st novel, Granthi, which was published in Sharadiya issue of Desh, 2010. According to writer “This was a first person account of four people of different age groups and at different stages of their lives, who recounted their relationships with women.” His 2nd novel, Andhar Nadi was published in Sharadiya issue of Patrika in 2011, followed by the publishing of his political novel, Sankranti, in Sharadiya issue of Anandabazar Patrika in 2012. Sankranti is based on the West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 2011 which was famous for the change in government in West Bengal after 34 years( AITMC won, resulting the end of the 34-year rule of the Left Front government). His 4th novel Saapludo, was published in Sharadiya issue of Unish Kuri , 2013

Sourav won second prize at a competition for comic stories organised by Desh. In 2010, he won first prize. in a similar competition, organised by Kishore Bharati.

Sourav Mukhopadhyay has claimed in the media that Padmanabha Dashgupta has copied the plot of the film Chaplin, released on 26 August 2011, from his story titled Charan Das Chaplin that was published in a Bengali children’s magazine on July 5, 2009. The coincidences include how a character takes up the job of dressing up as a Chaplin performer to ward off poverty, the life-threatening illness of his son and how the father celebrates the sons birthday.

Sourav’s 1st novel for children was Captain Tomosoner Guptadhan( The treasure of Captain Tomson). It was also published in Anandamela 20 February 2012 issue. It was a historical adventure fiction, based on the myth of Cocos Island and the Peru of the 19th century. After that he wrote 3 more novels for children till today.

In January 2014, Sourav’s 5th novel Dhulokhela started publishing in monthly issues of Desh magazine regularly. The story has two protagonist- Kingshuk and Tamal and based on them there are two main issues in the novel. Tamal is associated with personal experience and fight of a budding writer trying to establish him.On the other hand, Kingshuk is associated with the land movement which is based on Singur land movement. In this novel, Sourav strongly criticize the mentality and the process of forcefully land acquisition by Left Front government in Singur. After completion of the novel, it was highly appreciated by readers as well as critiques also. Ananda Publishers published it as a book in 2015.

In the Sharaidiya issue of Patrika of 2015, Sourav’s experimental novel Jiban Athaba was published. It is a multilayered novel, enclosing the struggle, love, betrayal of modern Bengali society with presence of the poetry and life of a poet. Sourav deconstructs Jibananda das’s poetry and represent him as Jibanbabu , a character of the novel. Many of Jibananda’s poems have been used in this novel .

In 2016 Desh sharadiya, Sourav wrote his latest novel, Prothom Probaho. It is a deconstruction of the 1st parva of Mahavarata. The novel becomes controversial for the explicit description of sexuality. Sourav accused for “representing vulgarity in name of literature” by critiques as well as some writers.

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