Soumitra Chatterjee

Soumitra Chatterjee

Acting

January 19, 1935 — November 15, 2020
Krishnanagar, Bengal Presidency, British India
259 movies

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Soumitra Chatterjee or Soumitra Chattopadhyay (Shoumitro Chôttopaddhae; born 19 January 1935 — 15 November 2020) was an Indian Bengali film and stage actor and poet. He was best known for his collaborations with Oscar-winning 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...

🎬 Soumitra Chatterjee's Filmography

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Preyashi

‘Preyashi’ is Sukanta’s story. Sukanta gives shelter to his father’s friend Bhudhar and his daughter Nandini. Sukanta and Nandini fall in love. Sukanta gets a job and goes out of station. But when he gets no news of Nandini and her father, he comes back and hears of Budhar’s death. Sukanata keeps searching Nandini but in vain. He gets transferred to Delhi where he catches Mr. Ganguly for corruption in railways. Nandini turns out to be Ganguly’s wife and begs Sukanta to set him free. Sukanta lies in court to save Ganguly. But he is shattered and becomes alcoholic. He meets Ranu, Nandini’s twin sister in Kashi who was forced into prostitution. Ranu falls in love with him. Ranu goes to Delhi to find her twin sister. But, Nandini cares for no one but her family. Sukanta overhears their conversation and decides to start his life again with Ranu.

Preyashi

1982
Agun

Heeru, Naren, and Chandranath were friends. From his college days, Chandranath had been aspiring and ambitious. He is also a man of strict principles in life. He leaves his brother and sister-in-law and goes away to gain immense power and knowledge. In the meantime, he marries and is blessed with a kid. However, Chandranath's quest to learn more drives him to leave his new family as well as he sets off to achieve new goals in life. He not only fails to fulfill his request but ends up losing his family too. On the other hand, Naren hails from a rich family and is a happy-go-lucky-natured man. He appreciates the finer aspects of life. He falls in love with a courtesan and brings her home. Caught between the two friends who have opposite ambitions in life, Heeru wonders which path would bring contentment in one's life. However, Heeru loses control of his life and slowly realizes that his life has become a mirror of Chandranath's life.

Agun

1962
Sunyo Theke Suru

Sunyo Theke Suru is a social drama that is based on the life and struggles of our main protagonist Paresh Bannerjee. Hailing from a simple family in the outskirts of Bengal, Paresh has big dreams of making it big in life in the Fil Industry. Talented, honest and very hard-working, Paresh filters through menial jobs and runs errands for several employers to make his luck work and achieve his dreams. The movie charts his struggle as a compositer at several press offices, the several crooks and sleaze-bags that he deals with and many ups and downs that life throws at him. He has a few faithful people in his life, like his wife, his employers Ela and Uncle, his elder brother and others who help him out and support and encourage him throughout. The movie ends on a happy note, where Paresh breaks his way through and releases his movies, with many more to come.

Sunyo Theke Suru

2017
Monihar

Ajay is a musician by hobby and also runs a business. His younger brother Arun wants to become a doctor. After his mother’s death, Ajay becomes the head of the family however, he falls into debt. He decides to take singing lessons to earn money. Bandana is a good singer and she starts taking classes from Ajay. Ajay starts liking Bandana because she is a charming lady and sings well. Arun and Bandana meet and they fall in love. Ajay is forced to sell his inherited property to pay Arun’s fees. His poverty is only short-lived as his popularity spreads and he becomes wealthy. In the meantime, Arun comes to know that Ajay has sold their family property but does not know the reason behind the act. This creates a misunderstanding between the two brothers. However, it is soon cleared and Ajay transfers his wealth to his brother. Arun and Bandana got married.

Monihar

1966
Sansar

Sansar is a social drama that shows the story of a happy family. Though Shanti is the second daughter-in-law of the house, she is given the responsibility of the house. She helps her husband with money by selling her jewelry to make a machine. Subhas, Shanti’s brother-in-law helps her in this matter. One day in shortage Shanti with the help of Subhash kept her sister-in-law’s gold necklace in stake without informing her. Conspiring Subhas, Satyen, and Subodh were sent to jail by Ajit. Due to the shortage of money, Satyen had to sell the machine to evil Ajit. But in prime time, Ajit’s uncle came to know the matter and rescued Shanti’s family from danger. The film ends on a happy note where all the dangers are removed from the family and they live peacefully, clearing up all the misunderstandings against each other.

Sansar

1971
Selfie

Selfie is a film that portrays the multi-dimensional relation between a hero and a commoner. Soumitra Chatterjee, the iconic personality of Indian cinema comes across a guy who is his namesake. The second Soumitra Chatterjee is jeered at by people at different stages of his life. Worse, his fiancee seeks in his presence traces of the iconic Soumitra Chatterjee. His only solace remains in his own ventriloquist persona. Simultaneously, the legendary Soumitra Chatterjee meets the attractive woman who happens to be young Soumitra's love interest, but secretly pines for the old and famous Soumitra. The famous Soumitra has a bizarre dream in which this girl appears in a reality show called The BIG BOSS. He talks about this show in a television interview. The finale is a complex web of fantasy and reality involving these three protagonists.

Selfie

2015
Ekti Jiban
10.0

Gurudas was a Sanskrit teacher in a village school in undivided Bengal. While teaching he felt the absence of an up-to-date lexicon in the Bengali language which has gained a new shape delinking itself from the original Sanskrit. In no time, he devoted himself to reconstructing a Dictionary and spent most of his life in pursuit of culling vocabularies from the mouths of common people. In the wake of the partition of Bengal in 1947, he came over to West Bengal and found shelter in a refugee camp. Meanwhile, he lost his daughter, son, and wife one after another, and was thrown into abject poverty still undaunted in spirit Gurudas went ahead with his mission. The only woman beside him was his widow daughter-in-law who kept vigil like unflinching flame of love and affection. When his work saw the light of day the erudite came crowding to show honor. The govt. conferred a befitting award but he refused. He was opposed to all these empty shows of honor.

Ekti Jiban

1988
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