A star was born in Bengali cinema with Soumitra Chatterjee as the King in Satyajit Ray’s Apur Sansar in 1959.

सौमित्र चैटर्जी एक अभिनेता रहे हैं इसके साथ वे बहुत एकांतप्रिय हैं। सत्यजित राय की ‘अपुर संसार’ से प्रारंभ कर तकरीबन छ: दशक उन्होंने अभिनय किया।

‘This book is not on cinema as such but on reflections on life by a star who was always human as he shared parts of his life with a much younger friend,’ says Nag of his book ‘Murmurs’

At the time of his death in November 2020 following COVID-19 complications, he was preceded perhaps by only Rabindranath Tagore and Satyajit Ray when it came to reverence. Noted author and film historian Gautam Chintamani reviews

Amitava Nag’s incredible book of conversations with Soumitra Chatterjee reads like an intimate close-up of the screen icon’s life. Noted film scholar and critic Shoma A Chatterji reviews.

Noted author and editor Sathya Saran reviews Murmurs: Silent Steals with Soumitra Chatterjee in The Hindu Business Line *The setting for these meetings is a garage turned into a very basic study with a low roof where the sunlight often struggles to enter *We learn that he is inspired by Tagore as a painter, and […]