West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday remembered veteran actor Soumitra Chatterjee on his 86th delivery anniversary and mentioned that his “glorious presence” is being missed.
“Remembering Soumitra (Da) Chattopadhyay on his birth anniversary. He was a legend, who left his mark on everything he did. We miss his glorious presence,” Banerjee tweeted.
The chief minister, who had inaugurated an exhibition that includes work, movie posters and costumes of Soumitra Chatterjee at a gallery in Kolkata, mentioned that she was touched by the heat of the actor’s household.
The iconic actor died in November final 12 months following an over-a-month-long battle with a number of illnesses after testing constructive for COVID-19.
The Dadasaheb Phalke Awardee was also known as legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray’s ‘alter ego’ in addition to one of many first proponents of the naturalistic fashion of appearing in Bengali cinema.
Chatterjee had acted in 14 of Ray’s movies apart from that includes in another iconic films reminiscent of Mrinal Sen’s Akash Kusum, Tapan Sinha’s Kshudhita Pashan, Jhinder Bandi and Tarun Majumdar’s Ganadevata.
