{"product_id":"soumitra-chatterjee-his-life-in-cinema-and-beyond-paperback","title":"Soumitra Chatterjee His Life in Cinema and Beyond - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAmitava Nag\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeScriPtion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Soumitra Chatterjee debuted in Satyajit Ray's Apur Sansar in 1959-the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efinal part of Ray's Apu trilogy-a star was born in Bengali cinema. Soumitra soon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etranscended the boundaries of the Bengali film industry to become an internationally\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecelebrated actor who was compared to the best in the business, from Max von Sydow\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto Marcello Mastroianni. Famously known as 'Ray's actor', in a career spanning six\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edecades, Soumitra worked with practically every Bengali director worth the name-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMrinal Sen, Tapan Sinha, Chidananda Dasgupta, Aparna Sen, Tarun Majumdar, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRituparno Ghosh and Goutam Ghose, to name but a few.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing Apur Sansar, Soumitra played the lead in another Ray film, Devi, in 1960.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom then until the posthumously released Abhijan and Belashuru (2022), the more\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethan 300 films in which he acted rank among the best in Bengali cinema, and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewon him a string of awards, including the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(1995), the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1999), the Padma Bhushan (2004), the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDadasaheb Phalke Award (2012) and the Legion d'Honour awarded by the French\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGovernment (2018). But it was not just on the silver screen that Soumitra shone. He\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewas also an accomplished playwright and theatre actor, a poet, a painter, the literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eeditor of the magazine, Ekshan, and an elocutionist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSoumitra Chatterjee: His Life in Cinema and Beyond, is the first comprehensive attempt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto portray the life of the actor in all its facets. It traces Soumitra's initial years of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esearching for identities to the final decades when he reached the pinnacle of his\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecareer as an actor and an artist. Written from the vantage point of someone who\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eshared an exceptionally close relationship with the actor, film journalist Amitava Nag\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehas drawn an intimate portrait of the star thespian and his art beyond acting, which\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewill be essential reading for his legion of fans, and for all those interested in cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 242\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 20, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47519749341437,"sku":"9789354474613","price":47.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/UFFUTExoRld0YmRPMDM5cjNlbk5hUT09.webp?v=1778410388","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/soumitra-chatterjee-his-life-in-cinema-and-beyond-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}