SOUMITRA CHATTERJEE

About:

• Soumitra Chatterjee (1935 —2020) was an Indian film actor.
  
  
• He was best known for his collaborations with Oscar-winning film director Satyajit Ray, with whom he worked in fourteen films.
  
  

Awards and Honours:

• In 1999 Soumitra Chattopadhyay became the first Indian film personality to be conferred with the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France's highest award for artists.
  
  
• He was also the winner of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award which is India's highest award for cinema.
  
  
• As an actor in Bengali theatre, he received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1998, given by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama.
  
  
• He was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 2004.