Film and theatre director Suman Mukhopadhyay on working with the legendary actor in Raja Lear, and how Chatterjee brought quality and respectability to the commercial theatre of Calcutta in the 70s and 80s as a playwright
Winning an Aranyer Din Ratri-style memory game of Soumitra’s greatest characters would need the sharpest mind: Apu, Mayurbahan, Narsingh, Amal, Asim, Pradosh, Sandip, Sushovan…and the list goes on!
Chatterjee never felt the need to move to Bombay, or work in Hindi films, and yet he remains possibly one of the most internationally viewed actors, thanks to his centrality to Ray’s body of work
Satyajit Ray turned two of his Feluda stories into films that masterfully adapted his ideas in the stories on screen. Both Sonar Kella and Joi Baba Felunath starred Soumitra Chatterjee, who breathed life into the Feluda between the pages, and gave him a unique identity in the world of fictional detectives.