Soumitra Chatterjee

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Jan 19, 1935 (90 years old)
Death date
Nov 15, 2020

Soumitra Chatterjee

Known For

Dui
1h 27m
Movie 2023

Dui

Dui is the story of an uncompromising school teacher who love teaching slum-dwelling children for free. When his daughter is brutally raped and commits suicide, he tries to fight a politically corrupted AITC leader. One of his students takes the case. Will he win?

Ami Soumitra
Movie 2023

Ami Soumitra

Documentary of famous Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee that sheds light on his various shades.

Reality Show
2h 2m
Movie 2022

Reality Show

Mahendrababu, an anthropologist, is shocked to see his granddaughter Titli being forced into a world of Television Reality shows by her parents. When disaster strikes, Mahendra Babu with his values and grit guides the tormented family. Soumitra Chatterjee's final feature film.

A Holy Conspiracy
2h 2m
Movie 2022

A Holy Conspiracy

A Science teacher in a Christian missionary school is suspended and imprisoned as he refuses to teach the Bible’s Genesis before Darwinian Evolution. As two stalwarts, Reverend Basanta Kumar Chatterjee and Anton De Souza, face each other in court for the trial, a Hindu fundamentalist politician uses the issue for his gain

Koli O Arjun
2h 31m
Movie 2022

Koli O Arjun

A Subhankar Bhowmik film.

Tritiyo Purush
Movie 2022

Tritiyo Purush

Soumitra Chatterjee plays a widower who has dementia.

Belashuru
2h 19m
Movie 2022

Belashuru

Arati Sarkar suffers from Alzheimer’s disease. The family realises that they are gradually losing her. They celebrate the bond that parents share with their children and other members of the family.

Her Story
2h 20m
Movie 2022

Her Story

This film was born due to death . The Film proves itself that cancer is not just a disease of the living, it is present in our thoughts, our actions, our society. Based on a true story of recent times, this is a film of love, passion and war.

Grohon - The Eclipse
Movie 2022

Grohon - The Eclipse

A female journalist travels to a remote place outside the city to interview an award winning male writer. The writer is a recluse, living alone in a strange house. He has a dual personality and has two different people living within him — one who is a good-natured, harmless family-man, and the other a demon who wants to awaken the evil inside people and conquer the whole world by power. The journalist comes face to face with an experience that changes her forever.

Shlilatahanir Pore
Movie 2021

Shlilatahanir Pore

The film is based on the struggle of a molestation victim and how she comes out of depression with the help of a few friends. According to the director, the film is the story of many such victims in our society. It talks about the struggles they face in their day-to-day lives.

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Soumitra Chatterjee or Soumitra Chattopadhyay (Shoumitro Chôttopaddhae; born 19 January 1935 — 15 November 2020) was an Indian Bengali film and stage actor and poet. He was best known for his collaborations with Oscar-winning film director Satyajit Ray, with whom he worked in fourteen films, and his constant comparison with the Bengali cinema screen idol Uttam Kumar, his contemporary leading man of the 1960s and 1970s. Soumitra Chatterjee is also the first Indian film personality to be conferred with the Commandeur de l’ Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France's highest award for artists. He is also the winner of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award which is India's highest award for cinema. Not only that, in 2017 exactly thirty years after auteur Satyajit Ray was honoured with France's highest civilian award, the coveted Legion of Honor, thespian Soumitra Chatterjee, arguably, the most prominent face of Ray's films, is set to receive the prestigious award. Starting with his debut film, Apur Sansar (The World of Apu, 1959), the third part of Apu Trilogy, he went on to work in several notable films with Ray, including Abhijan (The Expedition, 1962), Charulata (The Lonely Wife, 1964), Aranyer Din Ratri (Days and Nights in the Forest, 1969); Ashani Sanket (Distant Thunder, 1973); Sonar Kella (The Fortress, 1974) as Feluda and Joi Baba Felunath (The Elephant God, 1978) as Feluda, Ghare Baire (The Home and The World, 1984) and Ganashatru (Enemy of the People, 1989). Meanwhile, he also worked with other noted directors of Bengali cinema, with Mrinal Sen in Akash Kusum (Up in the Clouds, 1965), Tapan Sinha in Kshudhita Pashan (Hungry Stones, 1960), Jhinder Bandi (1961), Asit Sen in Swaralipi (1961), Ajoy Kar in Saat Pake Bandha (1963), Parineeta (1969), and Tarun Mazumdar in Sansar Simante (1975) and Ganadevata (1978). He acted more than 210 films in his career till 2016. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 2004. In 2012, he received the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, India's highest award in cinema given by the government of India for lifetime achievement. He has won two National Film Awards as an actor, and as an actor in Bengali theatre, he received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1998, given by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama. In 2013, IBN LIVE named him as one of "The men who changed the face of the Indian Cinema". In 2014, he received the introductory Filmfare Awards East for Best Male Actor (Critics) for his role in Rupkatha Noy. Description above from the Wikipedia article Soumitra Chatterjee, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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