Career
Pijush Ganguly started his career as an employee of NABARD but later moved on to pursue a career in acting. He started acting out of passion in the stages of Kolkata. He was actively involved with the Bengali Theatre scene and performed in various plays.
During his career, he worked with notable thespians such as Bratya Basu, Bibhas Chakraborty, Arun Mukherjee and Ramaprasad Banik, among others
Ganguly was a well established and popular actor in the Bengali television industry. He appeared in television programmes and films under the direction of the likes of Anjan Dutta, Kaushik Ganguly, Aparna Senator, and others
He was a well-known face in television serials from the mid-1990s to the mid-2010s. He started his television career with Abar Jakher Dhan.
Some of his popular television serials included Jol Nupur, Abar Jokher Dhon, and Amodini.
He hosted the reality show Ma vs Bouma. He also acted in popular films like the drama Laptop, the mystery Byomkesh Bakshi, and the period romance Iti Srikanta. Piush Ganguly died on 25 October 2015 at 2:45am, at Belle Vue Clinic,Kolkata.
He died of "multi-organ failure and fat embolism in a case polytrauma" after he met with a road accident on 20 October 2015 when his MUV collided head-on with a bus at Santragachi in Howrah district on 20 October when he was returning to the city after a show.