
Acting
Soumitra Chatterjee
Born — Died
1935-01-19 — 2020-11-15
Place of birth
Krishnanagar, Bengal Presidency, British India
Known for
Acting
Credits
60 titles
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 Indian film personality to be conferred with the Commandeur de l’ Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France's highest award for artists. He is also the winner of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award which is India…
Known for
7.5Narsingh, a North Indian taxi driver, attempts to reinvent his life by visiting his native place, but instead gets embroiled in a local Marwari businessman's smuggling and human trafficking business.
The Expedition
1962
6.6Allan is an engineer working in 1930s Calcutta. He is invited to stay with the family of his boss, Narendra Sen which includes his wife, Indira and daughter Gayatri. Gayatri and Allan become romantically involved leading to tragedy.
The Bengali Night
1988
8.1Apu, now a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer, is invited to join an old college friend on a trip up-country to a village wedding.
The World of Apu
1959
7.1Four friends from Calcutta who have very different personalities make a holiday excursion into the country, to a tiny village in the state of Bihar where they set themselves up in a bungalow. A series of minor events, all connected to their respective reactions to their new environment, reveals their characters more deeply.
Days and Nights in the Forest
1970
7.5In 1870s India, Charulata is an isolated, artistically inclined woman who sees little of her busy journalist husband, Bhupati. Realizing that his wife is alienated and unhappy, he convinces his cousin, Amal, to spend time with Charulata and nourish her creative impulses. Amal is a fledgling poet himself, and he and Charulata bond over their shared love of art.
Charulata
1964
10.0Nepal and Habul are uncle (Kaka) and nephew (bhaipo). For becoming hero in cinema they stole Rs. ten lakh and left home. Assuring double the money, one dishonest sadhu cheated that Ten lakh Rupees. Having no other alternative, they took the work of home servant in the house of an industrialist. A love grown up with the daughter of industrialist and kaka-bhaipo. After misunderstanding, the love matured at the end.
Kaka Bhaipo
2019
Film credits
2020s · 3 titles
8.0The life of a renowned geriatrician, struggling with his personal problems, changes with the arrival of a patient with Alzheimer's disease and his wife.
Sraboner Dhara
2020
7.0The TV film is about Hobu Chandra, the king of Bombagarh and his wife Kusumkoli. Everyone in Bombagarh was happy. Then arrives Gurjar Gobu and things take a turn when he becomes the new minister.
Hobu Chandra Raja Gobu Chandra Mantri
2021
5.7Arati Sarkar suffers from Alzheimer’s disease. The family realises that they are gradually losing her. They celebrate the bond that parents share with their children and other members of the family.
Belashuru
2022
2010s · 17 titles
10.0Nepal and Habul are uncle (Kaka) and nephew (bhaipo). For becoming hero in cinema they stole Rs. ten lakh and left home. Assuring double the money, one dishonest sadhu cheated that Ten lakh Rupees. Having no other alternative, they took the work of home servant in the house of an industrialist. A love grown up with the daughter of industrialist and kaka-bhaipo. After misunderstanding, the love matured at the end.
Kaka Bhaipo
2019
7.0Three generations of a family live together but they are very different from each other. The three young sons learn various lessons from life and end up as better human beings.
Maach Mishti & More
2013
3.0The story of a mysterious hotel room and how the lives of those who stay there change - for better or for worse.
Room No. 103
2015
NRThe movie, 'Shirshendur Diary', tells the story of a theatre director and filmmaker who goes missing one day. A controversial movie that takes a critical look at political violence in Bengal in the past decade.
Shirshendur Diary
2012
6.9A story of relationships that explores the intricacies of the married life, of life-long companionship, of promises and expectations and love.
Belaseshe
2015
NRIt’s a story of a once-wealthy joint family staying in a 200-year-old decrepit house full of ghosts. Four brothers live with their family. They are the grandsons of late Raybahadur Dhumrokolap (Soumitra), whose ghost stays there in the house along with his dead khansama and aunt. Like all the old houses, there’s also a hidden treasure and a clue which leads to it. The family desperately searches for the treasure, finding which will ensure the end of their falling conditions and save the house from a ruthless promoter (Shankar Chakraborty).
Adbhoot
2013
7.1Hemlock Society is a school that teaches aspirants how to successfully commit suicide. Meghna, one of the aspirants, has a near-death experience, turning everybody's lives upside-down.
Hemlock Society
2012
NRAn insight into the life of late writer-director Rituparno Ghosh, the iconic cultural figure from West Bengal (India), who pushed and transgressed the boundaries of sexuality, feminism, and freedom of thought. The film is about an artist's relationship to his city Calcutta and is based on his personal memoirs, archival material, and conversations with cast, crew, and family.
Bird of Dusk
2018
7.5Ahalya, set as a modern-day thriller, is an ode to a legend from Ramayana. The 14-minute-long film replays the deadly game of Gods, spinning a web of intrigue, seduction, desire and mystery between Gods and Apsaras. Ahalya is a deadly game you can’t escape.
Ahalya
2015
5.0The film tells the story of an old colonial house and how its inhabitants save it from the hands of money hungry promoters in modern day Calcutta.
61 No Gorpar Lane
2017
7.4This film to be a family drama based on the theme of parenting. The film revolves around the upbringing of a young boy by his grandparents and his working parents and also deals with the legal fight over parenting as the plot unfolds. His grandpa wins.
Posto
2017
6.3A married woman on journey from Mumbai to Howrah by train meets her ex-husband.
Praktan
2016
NRA documentary exploring the 50-year legacy of Bengali fictional detective Feluda, created by Satyajit Ray.
Feluda: 50 Years of Ray's Detective
2019
7.0Sulekha, a lonely elderly woman, misses her son who lives in a different country but finds comfort in the company of her caretakers.
Sanjhbati
2019
8.6On a family visit, a young man and his girlfriend set out to discover why his eccentric uncle has been mysteriously confined to one room for years.
Samantaral
2017
9.0A biographical drama, Bhagshesh tells the tale of Madhumanti and her relationship with her step-daughter. Madhumanti marries her college friend Amit after his divorce only to take care of his 7-year-old daughter, Pooja. The daughter, devastated by her parents' divorce holds Madhumanti responsible for it, only to realize later that Madhumanti loved her unconditionally.
Bhagshesh: The Remainder
2018
6.5A young boy Manoj, who lives among the chaos and weirdness of his joint family, where the musician uncle feels suicidal after singing a wrong music note and a teacher who won't remember his education if he sits straight. Then there is the great-grandmother who is wreaking havoc around the house. Set in a small town in West Bengal, the story takes an interesting turn when Manoj's cow runs away and at the same time there is a group of vicious dacoits who are planning to rob the King. How things fall back into place is a story filled with drama and action and lots of laughter.
Manojder Adbhut Bari
2018
2000s · 9 titles
6.4An exploration of the impact of schizophrenia on a young woman and her family in today's Calcutta.
15 Park Avenue
2006
7.5Several interested parties search for the house of a scientist who lived 150 years ago, believing that it contains his mysterious invention. A young boy is named the heir to the scientist’s house. Hidden in an underground chamber beneath the house is a strange musical instrument capable of putting anyone who hears it to sleep for several years. Among those seeking the instrument is also an alien from another world who has come to Earth specifically to obtain it.
The Underground Chamber
2003
6.5Anandi is left all alone as her family disintegrates and even her boyfriend goes abroad and marries another girl. However, she forgets all her sorrows and accepts every situation of life.
Bhalo Theko
2003
6.7A family gets alienated in a mountain forest villa after an earthquake. After 3 days of starvation, the true nature of each character begins to reveal.
Nishijapon
2005
6.2Ravi and Masha are just children when they were sold into labour by their parents. When they meet, friendship blossoms between them but when the factory manager threatens to sell Masha, possibly into sex slavery, Ravi gives up his hard earned savings to buy her freedom. They agree on a way to find each other once Ravi has earned enough money to buy his freedom but a series of misunderstandings and fear tear them apart. Though they now have their freedom in life, they have to find their way in love.
Shadows of Time
2005
NRChupi Chupi is a 2001 Indian Bengali romance film released on 2001.
Chupi Chupi
2001
8.0The film features the characters from Satyajit Ray's Aranyer Din Ratri, returning to the forest over thirty years later. Ashim, Sanjoy, Harinath and Aparna have grown old in this film; Shekhar has died. They set out on a journey to break off every link with civilisation for a few days. However, the trip turns sour when Ashim and Aparna's daughter, Amrita, goes missing. It transpires that she is being held for ransom by local tribespeople. Police intervene and the kidnapped girl is returned to her parents, albeit against her own wishes.
In the Forest... Again
2003
6.8The film is based on the lives of Bengali's across the world, especially on those settled abroad. It attempts to delineate the pain and dilemma of Bengali's estranged from their places of origin. It seeks to explore sensitive souls singing to the tunes of Tagore.
The Bong Connection
2006
6.0The violence and upheaval of Calcutta in the 1970s is focalized through a young man coming to the city to study.
Kaalbela
2009
1990s · 6 titles
7.2When a wealthy patriarch falls ill on his 70th birthday, three of his sons rush in from Calcutta, leading to a reunion filled with painful ironies and lingering disillusionment. As the family—including an addled fourth son who lives with the old man—watches and waits, the static occasion brings out simmering tensions in their family dynamics, from the father’s moral rectitude to the business ambition of two sons and the withdrawal of their siblings.
The Branches of the Tree
1990
7.3Ashoke Gupta is an idealistic doctor working in a town near Calcutta. He discovers that the water at a popular temple is the source of an outbreak of typhoid and hepatitis. In order to save lives, he risks his career to try and call attention to this polluted water source, while a local group of building contractors attempt to discredit him in various ways.
An Enemy of the People
1990
NRAjit, a driver, decides to take care of Chandu after an accident changes his perspective of life. He gives up everything in order to devote his time to Chandu's upbringing.
Mahaan
1996
NRA happy family goes through various trials and tribulations and falls apart when greed takes precedence over sibling relationships.
Satru Mitra
1999
6.5Jagdish leads an ordinary life with his wife, Savitri, but, one day, a man is murdered before his eyes and he fails to save him. He then takes up the identity of Alfred, a vigilante, to fight crime.
Bhagya Debata
1997
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Madhu Malati
1999
1980s · 5 titles
6.6Allan is an engineer working in 1930s Calcutta. He is invited to stay with the family of his boss, Narendra Sen which includes his wife, Indira and daughter Gayatri. Gayatri and Allan become romantically involved leading to tragedy.
The Bengali Night
1988
7.3In the early 1900s, Nikhilesh, a wealthy Westernized Hindu in colonial East Bengal, feels compelled to test the love of his wife, Bimala. He introduces her to his friend Sandip, a politician agitating against British rule, and Bimala is equally taken with both Sandip's anti-colonial fervor and the man himself. Personal and political tensions subsequently flare as the now assertive Bimala has to make a crucial decision.
The Home and the World
1985
NR‘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
8.0When Goopy and Bagha learn about Hirak Raja's tyranny, they try to set him right with the help of Udayan, a school teacher, and their magical powers.
The Kingdom of Diamonds
1980
NRA teacher witnesses a murder committed by his ex-student, who restricts him from giving his statement to the police. An atmosphere of terror ensues and the teacher must decide if to muster courage and approach the police at a personal loss.
Terror
1986
1970s · 9 titles
7.1Four friends from Calcutta who have very different personalities make a holiday excursion into the country, to a tiny village in the state of Bihar where they set themselves up in a bungalow. A series of minor events, all connected to their respective reactions to their new environment, reveals their characters more deeply.
Days and Nights in the Forest
1970
6.8Gangacharan is the new Brahmin of a village, where he assumes various duties: teaching, organizing religious events, and trying to prevent epidemics. But in that year 1943, war is raging (as reminded by the planes occasionally heard flying over the countryside), and a major famine is under way. As food shortages reach catastrophic proportions, Gangacharan attempts to preserve his privileged situation, while his generous wife, Ananga, conversely tries to help and support the community.
Distant Thunder
1973
7.8A young boy becomes a target for crooks, after he claims to remember his past life and mentions precious jewels in a golden fortress.
The Golden Fortress
1974
Endearingly realist love story between a prostitute and a thief. Rajani (Roy), a streetwalker, shelters the thief Aghor (So. Chatterjee) but he steals her money.
Sangsar Simantey
1975
7.0A young doctor is introduced to a girl by his cousin, but he rejects her as a potential bride and she disappears one day, leaving only a garland of dried flowers behind.
Malyadan
1971
7.3Set in the holy city of Benares, this is the second film about the detective Feluda, who goes on a holiday with his cousin, Topshe, and his friend, Lalmohan Ganguly. But the theft of a priceless deity of Lord Ganesh (the Elephant God) from a local household forces him to investigate.
The Elephant God
1979
7.8A romantic comedy about a series of clashes between the female residents of a ladies' hostel Basanta Bilap, and four boys of the neighbourhood, aided and abetted by their boudi (sister-in-law).
Basanta Bilap
1973
NRKakoli and Sukanto meet in a library reading room. They gradually grow closer to each other and start meeting frequently. One day, she visits Sukanto at his home and her appearance moves everyone in his family. Sukanto's mother wants them to marry but Kakoli's parents refuse the proposal. So, Kakoli leaves the home of her father and begins working as a receptionist. However, misunderstandings soon develop between her and Sukanto.
Pratham Kadam Phool
1970
9.0A man survives a shipwreck and brings his wife home only to find out the woman he found unconscious on the shore was not his betrothed but a complete stranger.
Shipwreck
1979
1960s · 9 titles
7.5Narsingh, a North Indian taxi driver, attempts to reinvent his life by visiting his native place, but instead gets embroiled in a local Marwari businessman's smuggling and human trafficking business.
The Expedition
1962
7.5In 1870s India, Charulata is an isolated, artistically inclined woman who sees little of her busy journalist husband, Bhupati. Realizing that his wife is alienated and unhappy, he convinces his cousin, Amal, to spend time with Charulata and nourish her creative impulses. Amal is a fledgling poet himself, and he and Charulata bond over their shared love of art.
Charulata
1964
7.5A devout upper-class Hindu has a vision in a dream that his daughter-in-law is the human incarnation of the Goddess Kali and begins worshipping her.
Devi
1960
7.2Amitabha Roy is a Calcutta-based scriptwriter, driving around in the country to collect material for a film. His vehicle breaks down in a small town. A tea planter, Bimal Gupta, offers hospitality for the night. Amitabha is forced to accept the offer as he has no alternative.
The Coward
1965
8.3A young man still to find a place in the sun puts up an innocent bluff to a young girl he chances upon. They meet frequently since then. Bluffs continue to pile up. There is no way out. In a desperate bid the young man tries to break the wealth barrier. His friend, well placed in life, cautions him. He turns a deaf ear. The inevitable happens. The young man grows wiser but pays heavily for it.
Up in the Clouds
1965
7.6Three stories with three central female characters linking the stories together. The first one concerns an orphan girl who grows attached to the postmaster she is caring for after he teaches her to read and write. The second one is a supernatural tale about a woman obsessed with the jewels her husband buys for her. The final one follows a young man who falls for an unconventional girl from his new village instead of his arranged bride, the daughter of a respectable family.
Three Daughters
1961
8.0A young girl,Archana, falls in love with Sukhendu, an educated young man. Her father gladly accepts Sukhendu as his son-in-law. But Sukhendu’s income and nature come in way of this marriage.
Saat Pake Bandha
1963
8.5Difficulties erupt between a couple when their relationship gets hit by societal pressures, norms, and deep-rooted patriarchy.
Punashcha
1961
NRIn 1967, Canadian documentarian James Beveridge traveled to Kolkata to film director Satyajit Ray at work. The resulting program, produced for the American public television series “The Creative Person,” features interviews with Ray, several of his actors and crew members, and film critic Chidananda Das Gupta.
The Creative Person: Satyajit Ray
1967
