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Early life and background. Soumitra Chatterjee was born in Mirjapur Street (now Surya Sen Street) near Sealdah railway station, in Calcutta in 1935. The first ten years of his early life were spent in Krishnanagar in West Bengal.
In his long acting career, he has received many awards from home and abroad. His films have also won numerous awards. He died on 15th November, 2020 at the age...
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- Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India
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- Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Nov 15, 2020 · Soumitra Chatterjee: Acting titan who took Indian cinema to the world Chatterjee was often referred to as Ray’s 'alter ego', their cinematic relationship giving expression to one of the...
Nov 15, 2020 · He was introduced to acting through family stage plays by his grandfather and lawyer father, both amateur theatre actors. Chatterjee did his masters in Bengali literature from Calcutta...
Nov 15, 2020 · According to film lore, Chatterjee auditioned for Ray's Aparajito in 1957, the second movie in the trilogy that began with Pather Panchali, but the director found the actor, then 20, too old to play the adolescent Apu. Chatterjee, however, remained in touch with Ray and eventually landed the role of Apu.
Nov 16, 2020 · Chatterjee started acting in school plays and simply never stopped. Over the course of his long career, he would write more than thirty books of essays and poems, write and direct dozens of plays, paint, edit a literary magazine, and appear in more than three hundred films directed by some of India’s greatest filmmakers, including Mrinal Sen.
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Nov 15, 2020 · Chatterjee was awarded the Dada Saheb Phalke Award, the highest honour in Indian cinema, in 2012 and in 2018, he was given France's highest award, the Legion of Honour. He began acting...
