Down the celluloid lane of two Bengali icons
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A few of the works on show seemed more like light-hearted doodling, even puerile, which the actor was not too eager to disclose.
Between 2006 and 2019, Chatterjee featured in five films helmed by Ghosh 'Podokkhep' (2006), 'Dwando' (2009), 'Nobel Chor' (2012, guest appearance), 'Peace Haven' (2015) and 'Basu Poribar' (2019) and as much a perceptive account of the dynamics of an actor-director association, the book is a story of the friendship between two creative individuals.
Amitava Nags incredible book of conversations with Soumitra Chatterjee reads like an intimate close-up of the screen icons life.
He was a simple, straightforward person who wore his fame lightly without the slightest snobbery, he didn’t know what pomposity is. Although I knew him slightly, I came to know him rather closely when he readily agreed to release my first book in Bengali, Sristi O Kristi. There was an instant chemistry.
The veteran Bengali actor died on Sunday at the age of 85 after receiving Covid treatment at a hospital in Kolkata.
Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury paid his tribute to Soumitra Chatterjee and said that the Mamata Banerjee government failed to recognise and honour him.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and various other political leaders and personalities across all walks of life expressed their grief at the passing away of Chatterjee.
Soumitra Chatterjee fought a long and hard battle against COVID-19 but despite winning it, other illnesses took away one of India's most renowned actors.
It was COVID-19 encephalopathy that had made Soumitra Chatterjee's brain weak before eventually turning it unresponsive, leading to a multi-organ failure.
