From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Soumitra Chatterjee or Soumitra Chattopadhyay (Shoumitro Chôttopaddhae; born 19 January 1935) is an Indian Bengali film and stage actor and poet. He is 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.
Soumitra Chatterjee
19-01-1935
Krishnanagar, Bengal Presidency, British India
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Shudhu Jaaoya Asa
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Bengali )
Director:
Atanu Ghosh
Music Director:
Debojyoti Mishra
Release date:
24-03-2023
Koli O Arjun
(
Bengali )
Artist:
Soumitra Chatterjee
,
Biswajit Chakraborty
,
Kharaj Mukherjee
,
Indrani Dutta
,
Raaj Bhowmik
Director:
Subhankar Bhowmik
Music Director:
Soumitra Kundu
Release date:
08-07-2022
Belashuru
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Bengali )
Artist:
Soumitra Chatterjee
,
Sayak Chakraborty
,
Sujoy Prasad Chatterjee
,
Rituparna Sengupta
,
Swatilekha Sengupta
Director:
Shiboprosad Mukherjee
,
Nandita Roy
Release date:
20-05-2022
Abhijaan
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Bengali )
Artist:
Soumitra Chatterjee
,
Jisshu Sengupta
,
Qaushiq Mukherjee
,
Rudranil Ghosh
,
Parambrata Chatterjee
Director:
Parambrata Chatterjee
Music Director:
Nabarun Bose
,
Prabuddha Banerjee
Release date:
14-04-2022
Tar Galpo
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Bengali )
Director:
Sudipta Dey
Music Director:
Partha Sengupta
Release date:
01-04-2022
Hobu Chandra Raja Gobu Chandra Mantri
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Bengali )
Director:
Aniket Chattopadhyay
Music Director:
Release date:
25-12-2021
Borunbabur Bondhu
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Bengali )
Artist:
Paran Banerjee
,
Soumitra Chatterjee
Director:
Anik Dutta
Release date:
10-09-2021
Shlilatahanir Pore
(
Bengali )
Artist:
Soumitra Chatterjee
,
Rahul Banerjee
Director:
Reshmi Mitra
Release date:
12-03-2021
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