Soumitra Chatterjee

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Soumitra Chatterjee or Soumitra Chattopadhyay Shoumitro Chôttopaddhae born 19 January 1935 was an Indian Bengali film and stage actor and poet He was best known for his collaborations with Oscarwinning 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 Frances highest award for artists He is also the winner of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award which is Indias highest award for cinema Not only that in 2017 exactly thirty years after auteur Satyajit Ray was honoured with Frances highest civilian award the coveted Legion of Honor thespian Soumitra Chatterjee arguably the most prominent face of Rays 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 Indias 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 Indias 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia