Nityananda Datta

It has been 12 months since we lost Soumitra Chattopadhyay, the man who used to straddle Bengali cinema just like a colossus from 1959.

It has been more than a year since we lost Soumitra Chattopadhyay, the man who used to straddle Bengali cinema just like a colossus from 1959.

The tag of ‘Ray’s hero’—he stepped into the world of cinema with Satyajit Ray’s ‘Apur Sansar’ and acted in 14 of his films—overshadowed Soumitra Chatterjee’s work with other greats like, Tapan Sinha, Asit Sen, Ajoy Kar, Mrinal Sen and Tarun Mazumdar. But he believed he became a household name, thanks to the success of his films with the other directors.