Veteran actor and Dadasaheb Phalke award recipient Soumitra Chatterjee passed away at a Kolkata on November 15, 2020. He was 85.
- Born on January 19, 1935, Soumitra Chatterjee made his acting debut with Satyajit Ray’s Apur Sansar (1959), which was the third part of the Apu Trilogy. The two worked on fourteen films including Abhijan, Charulata, Kapurush, Aranyer Din Ratri, Ashani Sanket, Sonar Kella and Joi Baba Felunath.
- He was a recipient of the Padma Bhushan, Dadasaheb Phalke Award, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, besides winning three National Film Awards.
- He was bestowed with France’s highest civilian award, the Legion of Honour, in the year 2018.
- In a tweet, PM Modi said, Soumitra Chatterjee’s death is a colossal loss to the world of cinema, cultural life of West Bengal and India. He said, through his works, he came to embody Bengali sensibilities, emotions and ethos.
