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  Soumitra Chatterjee biopic Abhijaan to be screened at London Indian Film Festival

  May 22, 2021 6:20 IST

  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.

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  Soumitra Chatterjee's wife Deepa passes away at Kolkata hospital

  Celebrities | April 05, 2021 11:37 IST

  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.

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  Soumitra Chattopadhyay's last film 'Belashuru' might release on late actor's birthday

  Celebrities | November 20, 2020 19:54 IST

  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.

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  Soumitra Chatterjee's sketches, poems, diary jottings to be published: Daughter

  Celebrities | November 17, 2020 20:37 IST

  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.

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  Aamir Khan and Big B mourn death of Soumitra Chattopadhyay

  November 16, 2020 16:20 IST

  Bachchan tweeted a picture of the duo from one of their meetings in 2018 and called Chatterjee an "abundant talent".

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  Paoli Dam: Soumitra Chattopadhyay was the face of Feluda to me as a child

  Celebrities | November 16, 2020 8:05 IST

  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  

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  15 shades of Soumitra Chatterjee

  Celebrities | November 16, 2020 6:49 IST

  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.

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  Soumitra Chatterjee's daughter urges people not to visit their place for condolence

  Celebrities | November 15, 2020 23:50 IST

  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.  

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  Soumitra Chatterjee: a cricket enthusiast who never missed a Test match at Eden Gardens

  Cricket | November 15, 2020 19:43 IST

  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.

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  Shared rare friendship with Soumitra Chatterjee, his loss is huge: Sharmila Tagore

  Celebrities | November 15, 2020 19:02 IST

  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.

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  Soumitra Chatterjee completed shooting biopic on himself; documentary on life remained unfinished

  Celebrities | November 15, 2020 18:50 IST

  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.  

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  Prosenjit Chatterjee: Soumitra's contribution to Indian cinema will be written in gold letters

  Celebrities | November 15, 2020 18:38 IST

  Bengali superstar Prosenjit Chatterjee is crestfallen on hearing the news of Bangla cinema and theatre legend Soumitra Chattopadhyay's demise. 

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  PM Modi, film fraternity condole Soumitra Chatterjee's death: Colossal loss to world of cinema

  Celebrities | November 15, 2020 15:37 IST

  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.

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  Veteran actor Soumitra Chatterjee passes away at 85 in Kolkata

  Celebrities | November 15, 2020 13:28 IST

  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.

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  Veteran Bangla actor Soumitra Chatterjee 'not responding at all': Medical board head

  Celebrities | November 15, 2020 10:11 IST

  Bengali Actor Soumitra Chatterjee's health condition is "extremely critical" and he is "not responding at all" to treatment, said critical care expert.  

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  Soumitra Chatterjee's condition stable but critical: Doctors

  Celebrities | November 13, 2020 7:56 IST

  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.

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  Marginal improvement in Soumitra Chatterjee’s health: Doctors

  Celebrities | November 06, 2020 17:06 IST

  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.

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  Actor Soumitra Chatterjee is 'critical but stable'

  Celebrities | November 05, 2020 15:31 IST

  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.  

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  Soumitra Chatterjee remains critical, undergoes city angiography

  Celebrities | November 02, 2020 20:34 IST

  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.

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  Soumitra Chatterjee's condition critical, given blood transfusion after haemoglobin count fluctuated

  Celebrities | November 02, 2020 9:45 IST

  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.