Down the celluloid lane of two Bengali icons
The Statesman gets an insider’s view into an author’s mind.
The Statesman gets an insider’s view into an author’s mind.
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.
Soumitra Chatterjee will be taken to Nandan in Rabindra Sadan, considered as the hub of Bengali theatre, followed by the Technician Studio in Tollygunge.
Even though Soumitra Chatterjee had recovered from the coronavirus, other illnesses had kept him fighting for his life for the last 40 days.
Chatterjee had tested positive for coronavirus on October 5 and got admitted to the hospital the very next morning.
"Amidst this time of huge anxiety over the health of my Covid-afflicted father, Soumitra Chatterjee, we are extremely upset, sad and heartbroken to find unauthorised pictures of him from the ICU and his medical bulletin being shared widely on social media," said Bose.
"If this continues he might be put on invasive ventilation support," sources said, adding that Chatterjee has been running a high fever since Sunday afternoon.
