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Soumitra Chatterjee

Soumitra Chatterjee

Acting

January 19, 1935 – November 15, 2020 (died at 85)
Krishnanagar, Bengal Presidency, British India
Male
283 Movies

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.

The World of Apu
The World of Apu

The World of Apu

1959 8.1

as Apurba "Apu" Kumar Ray

Age 24 (now 85)
Charulata
Charulata

Charulata

1964 7.5

as Amal

Age 29 (now 85)
The Coward
The Coward

The Coward

1965 7.2

as Amitabha Roy

Age 30 (now 85)
Devi
Devi

Devi

1960 7.5

as Umaprasad

Age 25 (now 85)
The Elephant God
The Elephant God

The Elephant God

1979 7.2

as Prodosh Mitra (Feluda)

Age 43 (now 85)
The Golden Fortress
The Golden Fortress

The Golden Fortress

1974 7.9

as Prodosh Chandra Mitra (Feluda)

Age 39 (now 85)
Days and Nights in the Forest
Days and Nights in the Forest

Days and Nights in the Forest

1970 7.0

as Asim

Age 34 (now 85)
Distant Thunder
Distant Thunder

Distant Thunder

1973 6.8

as Gangacharan Chakravarti

Age 38 (now 85)
The Home and the World
The Home and the World

The Home and the World

1985 7.3

as Sandip Mukherjee

Age 49 (now 85)
Ahalya
Ahalya

Ahalya

2015 7.4

as Goutam Sadhu

Age 80 (now 85)
An Enemy of the People
An Enemy of the People

An Enemy of the People

1990 7.2

as Dr. Ashok Gupta

Age 55 (now 85)
The Expedition
The Expedition

The Expedition

1962 7.5

as Narsingh

Age 27 (now 85)
The Kingdom of Diamonds
The Kingdom of Diamonds

The Kingdom of Diamonds

1980 8.1

as Udayan Pandit

Age 45 (now 85)
Belaseshe
Belaseshe

Belaseshe

2015 6.9

as Biswanath Majumdar

Age 80 (now 85)
The Branches of the Tree
The Branches of the Tree

The Branches of the Tree

1990 7.2

as Prashanto Majumdar

Age 55 (now 85)
Praktan
Praktan

Praktan

2016 6.1

as Train Passenger

Age 81 (now 85)