Soumitra Chattopadhyay

Soumitra Chatterjee or Soumitra Chattopadhyay (in Bengali: সৌমিত্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়) is an Indian film and stage actor and poet. He is best known for his collaborations with 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.

Besides this, he is also a writer.

সৌমিত্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়-এর জন্ম ১৯ জানুয়ারি, ১৯৩৫ কৃষ্ণনগরে। বাবা মোহিতকুমার চট্টোপাধ্যায়, মা আশালতা চট্টোপাধ্যায়। পিতার কর্মসূত্রে ছোটবেলা কেটেছে পশ্চিমবঙ্গের বিভিন্ন জায়গায়। স্মৃতির মধ্যে মন্বন্তর, স্বাধীনতা। ছোটবেলা থেকেই অভিনয়ে আগ্রহ। সঙ্গে বই-এর প্রতি টান। কলেজ জীবনে শিশিরকুমার ভাদুড়ির সান্নিধ্যলাভ। ১৯৫৯-এ প্রথম ছবি, ‘অপুর সংসার’। অতঃপর,

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