Chatterjee was the last male face of what the veterans often referred to as the golden age. When Mohit Kumar Chatterjee and his wife, Asha, had their second son on January 19, 1935, nobody in the family possibly thought that the name Soumitra would touch a chord with millions someday. Unlike no other actor in Indian cinema, Chatterjee played the key roles in as many as 14 movies Ray made between 1959 and 1990. Some of the movies Chatterjee worked in were however later remade in Mumbai. With Sinha, Chatterjee worked in Khudita Pashan (Hungry Stones, 1960), Jhinder Bandi (the Prisoner of Jhind, 1961) and Atonko (Fear, 1984).

Source: Hindustan Times November 15, 2020 07:07 UTC