Even as the release of Soumitra Chatterjee biopic ''Abhijaan'' has been delayed due to surge in COVID-19 cases in the country, the film has been selected for screening at the London Indian Film Festival (LIFF) 2021 edition.
Deepa Chatterjee, the wife of legendary Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee, died at a Kolkata hospital on Sunday morning, her family said. Deepa who was 83 years old was admitted to the hospital on March 31.
Soumitra Chattopadhyay was a favourite of master filmmaker Satyajit Ray, who memorably cast him as the iconic detective Feluda in the first two films of the series.
Soumitra Chatterjee, 85, died on November 15 after losing a 40-day battle with post-COVID ailments. The workaholic's eagerness to return to routine shoots after lockdown and musings during the lockdown period from March-end to the first week of September will be part of the publication, the late actor's daughter said.
Bachchan tweeted a picture of the duo from one of their meetings in 2018 and called Chatterjee an "abundant talent".
Paoli Dam shot the upcoming film 'Aboho' with late Soumitra Chattopadhyay in September post lockdown, and finds it hard to believe it was their last meeting
Soumitra Chatterjee's debut role was in the concluding film of Satyajit Ray's Apu trilogy, as an adult Apu. The film cast Soumitra opposite Sharmila Tagore, a widely considered one of the most romantic on-screen pairs in Bangla cinema.
Veteran Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee's daughter Poulami Basu appealed to people not to come over to their place right now due to the pandemic situation. "My mother's and my son's health is fragile at best. I humbly and earnestly request you please do not put them at risk," Basu wrote on her Facebook page. The octogenarian actor passed away at Kolkata's Belle Vue Hospital on Sunday.
Recollecting his long association with Chatterjee who died on Sunday, former Bengal captain and national selector Sambaran Banerjee said he was a cricket fan who kept a tab on all the developments related to the game.
Veteran actor Sharmila Tagore finds it difficult to come to terms with iconic Bengali star Soumitra Chatterjee's demise, as with him, she has lost one of her oldest friendships, which began when she was a teenager.
The Dadasaheb Phalke Awardee had also consented for an untitled documentary film on various sides of his life film actor, stage actor, poet and little magazine editor and painter. Shooting for the docu had begun in the last week of September.
Bengali superstar Prosenjit Chatterjee is crestfallen on hearing the news of Bangla cinema and theatre legend Soumitra Chattopadhyay's demise.
Soumitra Chatterjee, 85, died at a hospital in Kolkata after an over-a-month-long battle with multiple ailments. Chatterjee is survived by wife Deepa Chatterjee, daughter Poulomi Basu, and son Sougata Chatterjee. PM Narendra Modi and several celebrities from the Indian film fraternity paid their emotional tributes to Bangla cinema doyen.
Veteran Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee passed away at the age of 85 on November 15 in Kolkata. He breathed his last at Belle Vue Nursing Home in Kolkata after being hospitalised for nearly a month.
Bengali Actor Soumitra Chatterjee's health condition is "extremely critical" and he is "not responding at all" to treatment, said critical care expert.
Doctors treating iconic actor Soumitra Chatterjee on Thursday conducted the first plasmapheresis on the veteran for raising his plasma count and his condition was stable but critical, one of the physicians of the private hospital said in a statement.
The condition of iconic actor Soumitra Chatterjee marginally improved on Thursday though he remained on ventilation as his neurological condition was a matter of concern, one of the attending doctors said in a statement on behalf of the hospital.
The octogenarian was not administered dialysis as his urea and creatinine levels came down. His liver and organ functions remained okay. Soumitra Chatterjee's low hemoglobin and platelet count is due to multiple transfusion and blood loss, doctors said.
Soumitra Chatterjee was given a blood transfusion on Sunday after his haemoglobin count went down. He has been admitted to the ICU for 27 days now. Sources said that the city angiography was performed upon him to understand to actual place of the internal haemorrhage.
Veteran actor Soumitra Chatterjee was given blood transfusion on Sunday after his haemoglobin count fluctuated as his condition remained critical, one of the attending doctors said in a statement.
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