JEET

Jeet or Jeetendra Madnani, (Bengali: জিৎ) (Born: 30 November 1978) Calcutta, West Bengal, India,. is an Indian actor from Kolkata. Although, of non-Bengali origin, he is a leading actor in the Bengali film industry.^[1][2] Jeet received his first BFJA - Most Promising Actor AwardSaathi (2002), his biggest commercial success so far. for his performance in

He studied first at St. Joseph & Mary's School, New Alipur later in National High School, Hazra Road and finally completed his Graduation from Bhawanipur Educational Society, Elgin Road.However, his academic life was interrupted soon after for joining his family business.Nevertheless, he had a renewed interest for Creative Art since his early days.He enjoyed watching dramas and movies. Sometimes he would try the styles and mannerisms of leading stars on himself.His friends insisted him to try his luck in Creative World.

In the beginning he took up some modelling assignments then came some serials like Bishabriksha in 1994-95 directed by Bishnu Palchowdhury in which he played Taracharan, Janani by Bishnu Palchowdhury in which he played Anil and Daughters Of The Century by Tapan Sinha in which he was cast in the roles of Champiya and Kadambini.But somehow at that time he felt to move ahead from the periphery of modellings and serials. Jeet left for Mumbai. There amongst much hardships he struggled for 5 years to establish himself but never compromised to any circumstances.

In a vacation coming back to Kolkata he started meeting directors and producers over here. In the meantime to pursue his acting he became associated with an organization- Prosenium Art Center.It was at this time that he acted in two English dramas-'Arms And The Man' and 'Man At The Floor'. Thereafter he left for Mumbai again.He started giving regular auditions over there. In this process he came to meet a producer from South who cast him in the Telegu film, Chandu released in 2001. However, the film couldn't give him the required strike.

In October, 2001 when he was back to Kolkata once again he suddenly he received a call from Haranath Chakraborty to come up and meet him at NT1 Studio. The shooting of Saathi commenced from15 January 2002. And with that Jeet made a big splash on Bengali Screen. The film went to break box office records of all times