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Soumitra Chatterjee is a Actor Indian born on 19 january 1935 at Krishnanagar (Inde)

Soumitra Chatterjee

Soumitra Chatterjee
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Nationality Inde
Birth 19 january 1935 at Krishnanagar (Inde)
Death 15 november 2020 (at 85 years)
Awards Padma Bhushan, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award

Soumitra Chatterjee or Soumitra Chattopadhyay (Shoumitro Chôṭṭopaddhae; born 19 January 1935) is an Indian film and stage actor and poet. He is best known for his collaborations with 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.

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), Joi Baba Felunath (The Elephant God, 1978), 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 Kshudista 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 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 2014, he received the introductory Filmfare Awards East for Best Male Actor (Critics) for his role in Rupkatha Noy.

Biography

Soumitra Chatterjee est diplômé en littérature de l'université de Calcutta. Son premier film, Le Monde d'Apu (1959) est aussi sa première collaboration avec Satyajit Ray, et le début d'une collaboration qui se prolongera jusqu'aux années 1990. Outre sa carrière d'acteur de cinéma et de télévision, il est aussi acteur, auteur et metteur en scène de théâtre. Il écrit et récite également de la poésie. Le film documentaire Gaach (l'Arbre), réalisé par Catherine Berge, lui est consacré.

Usually with

Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray
(19 films)
Soumendu Roy
Soumendu Roy
(11 films)
Rituparna Sengupta
Rituparna Sengupta
(14 films)
Goutam Ghose
Goutam Ghose
(5 films)
Deepankar De
Deepankar De
(13 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Soumitra Chatterjee (100 films)

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Room No. 103
Room No. 103 (2015)

Directed by Aniket Chattopadhyay
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Soumitra Chatterjee, Anjana Basu, Kanchana Moitra, Jisshu Sengupta, Rajesh Sharma, Biswajit Chakraborty
Roles Rudra Chatterjee
Rating55% 2.7900152.7900152.7900152.7900152.790015
The story of the film revolves around a hotel name Raat Din. Rudra Chatterjee is the manager of the hotel for 33 years. In these 33 years in the hotel he has gathered many experiences. He is narrating four stories in this film.
Belaseshe
Belaseshe (2015)
, 2h21
Genres Drama
Actors Soumitra Chatterjee, Swatilekha Sengupta, Rituparna Sengupta, Aparajita Auddy, Monami Ghosh, Sohini Sengupta
Roles Biswanath Majumdar
Rating84% 4.2408854.2408854.2408854.2408854.240885
Biswanath Mazumdar (Soumitra Chatterjee) shocks his son and daughter-in-law (Shankar Chakraborty and Indrani Dutta), three daughters (Rituparna Sengupta, Aparajita Auddy and Monami Ghosh) and their husbands (Sujoy Prasad Chatterjee, Kharaj Mukherjee and Anindya Chatterjee) by announcing his decision to divorce his wife, Aarti (Swatilekha Sengupta) after 49 years of marriage. The rest of the story follows an emotional re-discovery of the institution of marriage.
Ahalya
Ahalya (2015)
, 14minutes
Directed by Sujoy Ghosh
Genres Thriller
Actors Soumitra Chatterjee, Radhika Apte, Tota Roy Choudhury
Roles Goutam Sadhu
Rating79% 3.9844553.9844553.9844553.9844553.984455
A young policeman Indra Sen comes to the home of a famous ageing artist Goutam Sadhu investigating a case of a missing man Arjun. There he is greeted by his young and beautiful wife Ahalya. The missing man's doll-version is placed on the mantelpiece, along with four other dolls, who Sadhu tells him had been modelling for himself. A stone is also placed there in a glass case. Sadhu tells the policeman that the stone has magical qualities and that anybody who touches it turns into whosoever he or she wishes to. He tells the policeman that Arjun knew about it and suggests that he might have used it. The policeman does not believe him initially but agrees to try it when the old man dares him to. He goes up to hand his mobile over to Ahalya, who addresses him seductively as her husband. She asks him to shoo away the policeman and come back to her. He plays along with her only to find himself cast in stone like other dolls placed on the same mantelpiece.
Apur Panchali
Apur Panchali (2014)

Directed by Kaushik Ganguly
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Parambrata Chatterjee, Parno Mittra, Gaurav Chakrabarty, Ritwick Chakraborty, Karuna Banerjee, Soumitra Chatterjee
Roles (Archive Footage)
Rating81% 4.0854354.0854354.0854354.0854354.085435
The film follows the journey of Subir Banerjee the child actor who portrayed "apu" of Satyajit Ray's masterpiece Pather Panchali. The events take place in two time periods. while the present day events are shot in color the past events are in black and white. Comparison is drawn between Subir's life and the Apu trilogy throughout the film.
Alik Sukh
Alik Sukh (2013)
, 2h17
Genres Drama
Themes Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Rituparna Sengupta, Sudipa Basu, Sohini Sengupta, Dolon Roy, Biswanath Basu, Soumitra Chatterjee
Rating70% 3.512553.512553.512553.512553.51255
A renowned gynaecologist, Dr Kingshuk Guha (Debshankar Haldar), finds himself in a professional crisis when one of his patients, Kabita Mondol (Sohini Sengupta), dies on the operating table while he is away buying a luxury apartment for his family. Kabita’s enraged husband (Biswanath Basu) and relatives attempt to mob the hospital. On hearing the news, Kingshuk’s wife, Rumi (Rituparna Sengupta), rushes to the hospital to be with her husband. She happens to see Kabita's corpse lying unattended in the empty operation theatre and begins to imagine that the dead woman is communicating with her.
Bicycle Kick
Bicycle Kick (2013)

Actors Ritwick Chakraborty, Ridhima Ghosh, Soumitra Chatterjee

Rubayet, a 19-year-old boy studying the first year of Bangla honours, stays at his cousin’s house in North Kolkata. Rubayet is unassumingly quiet, reticent, shy, lonesome and in a way scattered. His cousin brother fails to communicate with him, his sister-in-law seems somewhat hardened towards him. A jubilant life in the para in North Kolkata bubbles around Rubayet who remains distanced. Rubayet’s peers at Pranonath Sir’s coaching centre often poke fun at Rubayet. They try to take him into their parlance but strangely Rubayet remains detached and unaffected. One day, on his way back from coaching, a football flies onto Rubayet. With a start, he jerks back. A man keenly notices him from a field spread across the road where a bunch of guys were practicing football. The situation repeats itself a second day. The third day when a football is hurled at Rubayet he adeptly receives it in a reflex and recoils. This time, the man who used to observe him had intentionally thrown the ball at Rubayet. He is… well a photographer?.... may be. An eccentric?... uuuhh. A foody?...seeing is believing. A football coach?...that’s by profession.
Fish, Sweets & More
Fish, Sweets & More (2013)
, 1h45
Directed by Mainak Bhaumik
Actors Soumitra Chatterjee, Swastika Mukherjee, Raima Sen, Parambrata Chatterjee, Parno Mittra, Pradip Mukherjee
Rating64% 3.2459453.2459453.2459453.2459453.245945
The film looks at a Bengali joint family of Kolkata in the present time. The grandfather (Soumitra Chatterjee) is modern, mingles freely with youngsters and wears hip clothes. The parents (Anuradha Roy and Pradip Mukherjee) are comparatively conventional but generally do not interfere in their kids' lives. The oldest, Rahul (Souvik Kundagrami), a successful NRI, returns to base with his wife (Swastika Mukherjee) with plans of opening a restaurant of American food. The second son, Ronnie (Parambrato), is a corporate honcho going steady with a rich Marwari girl called Swati (Rachita Chauhan) but is not sure about whether he really is in love with her or whether the slightly crazy Ishaani (Raima Sen) fascinates him more. The youngest, Raj (Anubrata), is a wannabe filmmaker with a mind of his own and his pockets filled with money doled out by the elders. The film closes with Rahul and his wife going back to the US to open a Bengali restaurant called Maach Misti & More.
Rupe Tomay Bholabo Na
Rupe Tomay Bholabo Na (2013)

Actors Swastika Mukherjee, Kaushik Sen, Soumitra Chatterjee

The story revolves around the psychological and mental conflicts faced by women,the root of which lies in the socioeconomic conditions of modern day society. It is a love triangle based film but not a normal one. A star actress Kaberi (Swastika Mukherjee), her Ritu (Ananya Sarkar) and daughter's boyfriend Sunny (Shaan Roy) – love triangle between these three characters has been shown in this film. This film shows that how the relationship between the mother & daughter goes when both of them got attracted to one man (Sunny). It shows the human psychology & crisis of recent days where a girl feels that her mother is physically more attractive than her. Kaberi is a famous actress of recent times. Indrajeet (Kaushik Sen), husband of Kaberi is a corporate man. Ritu is the daughter of Kaberi and Indrajeet. Ritu is doing her graduation in science. Ritu suffers from identity crisis due to her mother's stardom. In the meantime, Ritu falls in love with her classmate Sunny, who is a boy from a village. But later, Sunny becomes the boyfriend of Kaberi. When Kaberi gets to know about Ritu & Sunny's relationship, she accepted it gladly. One day Kaberi met Sunny in a restaurant. Sunny told Kaberi that he had a dream to become an actor. Kaberi was impressed with her would be son in law. Kaberi started helping Sunny so that he can become an actor in future. As time passed, Sunny & Kaberi both get to know each other more. Age difference between Ritu and Kaberi was not very high. Ritu started suspecting her mother as she thought that Kaberi was becoming involved with Sunny and then twists & turns started happening in their lives.
Not a Fairy Tale
Not a Fairy Tale (2013)
, 1h51
Directed by Atanu Ghosh
Actors Soumitra Chatterjee, Radhika Apte, Kaushik Sen, Arunoday Banerjee - Rahul, Indraneil Sengupta, Gaurav Chakrabarty
Roles Sisir Roy
Rating68% 3.418783.418783.418783.418783.41878
Sisir Roy (Soumitra Chatterjee) is a 72-year-old man, long retired from a government office as Upper Division Clerk. His family consists of his son Prasanta (Bhaskar Banerjee) and daughter-in-law Mandira(Soma Chakrabarty). Sisir’s wife died many years ago. Everyday. Sisir goes to the park and interacts with different people. Over a period of time, five young people get acquainted with him – Ahana (Sohini Sarkar), a newly married girl, restless and immature, who repeatedly flees from her in-law’s place, much to the anxiety of people close to her. Her newly married husband Prasit (Gourab Chakrabarty) is quite baffled about her behaviour and is desperately on the lookout for a solution. Saswata (Koushik Sen) is a 35-year-old man who teaches Mathematics in a boy’s school. For the last eleven years, he has been entrusted to teach Calculus. Saswata has no thrill in life and is desperately in search of that. Sananda (Radhika Apte), a 30-year-old IT engineer, is a single mother of a 3-year old child. Sananda has a dreadful past, which keeps haunting her. Biswanath (Rahul) is a typist who sits on one side of the park, quite aware of that the number of customers is rapidly dwindling, as more and more people prefer electronic type using computers, but he does not have the means to buy a computer. Reena (Nina Chakrabarty) is a young girl, working at a petrol pump,who is struggling against an uncertain future and insecurity. All these five people are either going through or on the verge of a crisis in their lives. In midst of such a situation, Sisir’s son and daughter-in-law leave for Meerut. And now Sisir is left completely alone. Detached from his own kin, Sisir now reaches out to his extended family by involving himself more intimately with the four new people in his life. He touches upon their minds trying to change their thoughts, and in turn, their lives. But in the process, he puts his own life into a vortex of complexities.
Life in Park Street
Life in Park Street (2012)

Actors Soumitra Chatterjee, Debashree Roy, Shankar Chakraborty, Rajesh Sharma
Rating54% 2.743232.743232.743232.743232.74323
Park Street is a cosmopolitan place in Kolkata and the film focuses different aspects of life of this locality. Different characters like drug addict young girl, gay raping boys, pimps, housewife having affair with others etc.
Aparajita Tumi
Aparajita Tumi (2012)
, 2h8
Directed by Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury
Actors Prosenjit Chatterjee, Padmapriya, Kamalinee Mukherjee, Chandan Roy Sanyal, Indraneil Sengupta, Soumitra Chatterjee
Rating62% 3.145753.145753.145753.145753.14575
Pradip and Kuhu, an NRI couple with two children, start having problems because of Kuhu's straightforward nature and blatant comments which end up hurting people. Ushoshi and Ronojoy are another couple. While Ronojoy seems to be a cynical workaholic who is not bothered about the voids in his life, Ushoshi is extremely sensitive about things like their childlessness. As Kuhu repeatedly hurts the insecure Ushoshi, Pradip finds himself empathizing with her, and they eventually end up having an affair. Kuhu moves out with her children, whom she temporarily places in the care of her parents, while she takes time to think about her next step. Meanwhile, she has a brief encounter with ex-boyfriend Yusuf, which brings back nostalgic old memories, pain and loneliness. While Yusuf is clearly interested in a relationship, Kuhu is cold and distant, which finally drives him away.