Kolkata, Jan 20 (PTI) Actors change their weight and look to become a character in a movie, but Soumitra Chatterjee had to alter his hand writing style to suit the profile of his character in ...

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 ...

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 ...

By Alex Traub Soumitra Chatterjee, an Indian actor who incarnated ... He spent six months mastering the 19th-century style of Bengali handwriting so that the scenes that depicted him in the ...

his theatre and of course his film performances' A young Soumitra Chatterjee signs autographs for his fans at the Eden Gardens. The actor had completely changed his handwriting for Charulata. Director ...

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.