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{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}}
{{Use Indian English|date=May 2018}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Avijit Dutt
| nationality = [[India]]
| alma_mater = [[Calcutta University]], [[West Bengal]], India
| occupation = Actor,
| yearsactive = 1972–present
|
}}

'''Avijit Dutt''' is an Indian filmmaker, actor, theater director and communications consultant. Living and working out of New Delhi. 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 six 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, Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel etc. He has also acted in [[Madras Cafe]] as a R&AW (Research and Analysis Wing) officer, in Jolly LLB2 as state police head and in No One Killed Jessica as a defense lawyer amongst many. He has also been in a lot of Webseries on Netflix, Amazon Prime etc.
He is, perhaps, the only actor to have two patents applied for, for a toilet solution & Health Care. His organisation, Enable, of which Dutt is Chief Motivator and Director, has built toilets across north India, though not the one he had patented, the second patent is for a process of collecting, testing and documenting blood tests for rural areas. They have covered over 60000 beneficiaries across 68 villages in India.<ref name=fireburn>[http://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/entertainment-others/fire-burn-and-cauldron-bubble-avijit-dutt-the-unspeakable-4824558/ indianexpress.com]</ref>

He has also been a TED Talks speaker on various occasions.

==Filmography==

=== Films ===
{| class="wikitable"
|+Key
| style="background:#ffc;"| {{dagger|alt=Film yet to release}}
| Denotes films that have not yet been released
|}

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Film
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
| 1996
| ''[[Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love]]''
| Vazir, The King's Prime Minister
|
|-
| 1996
| ''[[Fire (1996 film)|Fire]]''
| Julie's father
|
|-
| 2004
| ''[[Bow Barracks Forever]]''
| Melville
|
|-
| 2004
| ''[[Chai Pani Etc.]]''
| Mr. Bose
|
|-
|2005
| ''[[Amu (film)|Amu]]''
| Neel
|
|-
| 2006
| ''[[The Bong Connection]]''
| Actor
|
|-
| 2010
| ''[[Peepli Live]]''
| Boss of English TV Channel
|
|-
| 2011
| ''[[No One Killed Jessica]]''
| BM Pandit
|
|-
| 2011
| ''[[Gandhi to Hitler]]''
| MK Gandhi
|
|-
| 2013
| ''[[Madras Cafe]]''
| Swarup
|
|-
| 2015
| ''[[The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel]]''
| Nimish
|
|-
| 2015
| ''[[Piku]]''
| Bodo Mesho
|
|-
| 2016
| ''[[Land of the Gods (film)|Land of the Gods]]''
| Sunder
|
|-
| 2017
| ''[[Jolly LLB 2]]''
| VK Paul
|
|-
|2017
|''Kashmir''
|Father
|
|-
|2017
|''The Complaint''
|The Old Man
|
|-
|2018
|[[2.0 (film)|2.0]]
|Dr. Sam
|
|-2019
|''[[Inside Edge season 2|2019]]''
|''[[Inside Edge season 2]]''
|
|Amazon Prime original
|-
|2019
|''[[Delhi Crime]]''
|Gururaj Dixit
|Web television series
|}

=== Web series ===
{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!Title
!Role
!Platform
!Notes
|-
|2019
|''[[The Verdict – State vs Nanavati]]''
|[[V. K. Krishna Menon]]
|[[ALTBalaji]] and [[ZEE5]]
|
|}

==References==
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