Soumitra Chatterjee

A Holy Conspiracy review: Uneven, verbose drama gives courtroom dramas a bad name

Given that A Holy Conspiracy stars a magnetic pairing — the late Soumitra Chatterjee pitted against the great Naseeruddin Shah — it feels like a missed opportunity that the film lacks voice, style, or even a clear direction.

The Flawed Nayaks of Satyajit Ray

Filmmaker Satyajit Ray's vision of male characters in his movie stemmed from his own cinematic belief of creating realistic characters — in both his short stories, stacked to the brim with lonely men and his cinematic offerings.

On Satyajit Ray’s death anniversary, looking at his uncompromisingly strong female protagonists

The Ray heroine is as significant as the hero of any screenplay but never needs to engage in a contest of gender supremacy or undermine his presence in her world

Sandip Ray's new Feluda film based on Satyajit Ray's Hatyapuri to go on floors in May

Sandip Ray will start the production of Hatyapuri in May end. The makers are planning the film during the Christmas weekend.

Bela Sheshe to Asukh, celebrating Soumitra Chatterjee's iconic performances beyond the Satyajit Ray universe

Chatterjee’s body of work, spanning over 300 films, is vast, versatile, and defining. He became representative of the educated Bengali middle-class in a way that was both accessible and aspirational.

Book review — Suman Ghosh's Soumitra Chatterjee: A Film-maker Remembers is a thirst-quencher for incurable cinephilia

In most Suman Ghosh films, Soumitra Chatterjee played characters who had no option but to stare at their own mortality and memory. It makes sense then that Ghosh has written a book on Chatterjee that is eventually an excavation of memory.

On Soumitra Chatterjee's birth anniversary, Sharmila Tagore, Sandip Ray remember actor's 'ineradicable legacy'

Sharmila Tagore who co-starred in Soumitra Chatterjee’s several films, including Apur Sansar and Devi, says she doesn’t know of anyone as erudite as him: "He could talk about any subject under the sun"

Joi Baba Felunath: How a child's misgivings about gods open Satyajit Ray's detective thriller on fake godmen

Satyajit Ray’s second Feluda film Joi Baba Felunath is a detective story that makes fine use of Varanasi as a setting – while also critiquing showy displays of religiosity.

Release of Abhijaan, Golondaaj and other big-budget Bengali films stalled indefinitely amid COVID-19 second wave

Late actor Soumitra Chatterjee's wife Deepa passes away aged 83 in Kolkata

Deepa Chatterjee, a badminton champion, had also acted in films like Durga and Bilombito Loy.