MORE Soumitra Chatterjee’s association with Satyajit ... He says “I had to change my Bengali handwriting for good. There were many sequences showing Amal writing. At that time my handwriting ...

His career is also a timeline of its decline. Chakraborty’s deeply researched biography, Soumitra Chatterjee and his World, explores all these different aspects of his life and career.

IMAGE: Soumitra Chatterjee and Madhabi Mukherjee in Satyajit Ray's classic Charulata. There is a story Soumitra Chatterjee likes to tell. In the mid-1950s he heard that Satyajit Ray was casting ...

And, closely tied to their life and work was Soumitra Chatterjee (1935-2020). Together, they played important roles in the flourishing of a culture that was simultaneously very Bengali yet universal.

Since Soumitra Chatterjee’s passing, several biographies have been written about him, but Sanghamitra Chakraborty’s work is possibly the first truly comprehensive account. She explores the ...

Biswarup Ganguly / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0) Indian actor Soumitra Chatterjee, best known internationally for his long association with ...

Soumitra Chatterjee once approached Satyajit Ray to suggest a name for a little magazine founded by Soumitra and Nirmalya Acharya in 1961. Ray not only named the magazine ‘Ekkhon’ (Now), he ...

Today, we celebrate the legendary Soumitra Chatterjee, whose remarkable contributions to Indian cinema have left an everlasting legacy. Known for his brilliant portrayals of complex characters ...

Soumitra Chatterjee. The name itself evokes a million emotions for Bengalis and film-lovers. The man himself is a bundle of contradictions; from Apur Sansar to Bela Seshe, from Kony to Atanka ...

MORE Soumitra Chatterjee’s association with Satyajit ... He says “I had to change my Bengali handwriting for good. There were many sequences showing Amal writing. At that time my handwriting ...

He never went to the Bombay industry.' IMAGE: Soumitra Chatterjee and Madhabi Mukherjee in Satyajit Ray's classic Charulata. There is a story Soumitra Chatterjee likes to tell. In the mid-1950s ...