Soumitra Chatterjee's death is colossalloss to cinema.

Soumitra was born in Mirzapur Street in Calcutta in 1935.His grandfather was the president of one such group while his father, though lawyer by profession and later a government worker, also worked as an amateur actor. Soumitra and his family moved to Howrah where he studied in the Howrah Zilla School and Calcutta during his early years. Soumitra graduated from the City College, Kolkata with honours in Bengali literature, as a graduating student of the University of Calcutta. He lived for a few years in Calcutta in Satyajit Ray's old apartment at 3-lake temple road. However a turning point came when in the final year of college he saw a play by Sisir Bhaduri, theatre director and the doyen of Bengali theatre. Subsequently, he started his career working in All India Radio as an announcer, While he was there he started pursuing a career in films. He came in touch with Ray during the casting for Aparajito (1956), who was looking for new faces. Ray thought he had the right look, however found him, age 20, and just out of college, too old for the role of adolescent Apu. Ray remembered him and offered him the role of adult Apu two years later. Meanwhile, he was rejected in his screen test for Bengali film, Nilachale Mahaprabhu (1957) directed by Kartik Chattopadhyay. Apur Sansar with its unforgettable onscreen romance of Apu and Aparna captured the collective imagination of both the bengals and somewhere over the years the lines were blurred. You cannot think of Apu without Aparna. In the film Aparna dies during childbirth, but in life Apu has preceded Aparna. When you grieve you are not always coherent, but in life of “news” , immediacy is everything.Chatterjee received the 'Officier des Arts et Metiers, the highest award for arts given by the French government in 1999, and the Lifetime Award at the Naples Film Festival, Italy.[23][24] He turned down the Padma Shri award from the Indian government in the 1970s.[23] In 2004, he accepted the prestigious Padma Bhushan award from the President of India.[25] He has been the subject of a full-length documentary named Gaach by French film director Catherine Berge. In 1998, he was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award given by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance & Drama.

Some of his famous books were:

· Charitrer Sandhane ("Search of Character"; 2004). Kolkata: Saptarshi Prakashan

· Pratidin Taba Gatha ("You Sing Everyday"; 2009). Kolkata: About Rabindranath Tagore in many aspects of his life.

· Agrapathikera ("Pioneers"; 2010). Kolkata: Aajkaal Publishers Pvt Ltd. A memoir of his seniors and friends who are no more.

Some of his famous poetry collections were:

· Śreshṭha Kabitā ("Best Poem", poetry collection; 1993).

· Madhyarater Sangket: ("Midnight Signal"; 2012).

· Kabita Samagra: ("Poetry Collection"; 2014).

· Shabdora Aamar Bagane ("Words in My Garden")

ILLNESSS AND DEATH.

On 5th October 2020, he was tested positive for COVID-19 and was admitted on 6th October in Belle Vue Clinic, Kolkata. However, he tested negative to the second COVID-19 test conducted on 14 October. In the meantime, his complications made the condition critical and he had to be admitted to ITU. From 13th October, his condition started to improve marginally and on 14th October, he was transferred from a Covid unit to a non-Covid unit. He was kept on BiPAP support and invasive ventilation for in the critical times; after his improvement in health, the treatment mechanisms were changed. On 25 October, his condition further deteriorated. On 15th November 2020, Chatterjee died due to COVID-19 induced encephalopathy at Bellevue hospital in Kolkata at 12.15 p.m.

He was known as the legend of Bengal films, poems as well as writings. Most of the times I got inspired from him by seeing his movies in which he narrated that how a family runs. He was one of the best actor, writer. After getting a big fame usually people forget their past life from where they came but this person was always down to the earth. He used to help the needy people, the low caste people. I choose to write on this person because he is a person of having all talents and the way he narrated his own poems, his writings those were pretty clear to the public what he used to feel. One of his famous film APUR SANSAR with its unforgettable on screen romance of Apu and Aparna captured the collective imagination of both the bengals and somewhere over the years the lines were blurred. You cannot think of Apu without Aparna. In the film, Aparna during the childbirth, but in life Apu has preceded Aparna.

When you grieve you are not always coherent, but in the life of “news”, immediacy is everything.

A tribute from the deep of heart

Some days

Sometimes

A river awoke in this body

Break the arrow

Everyone who was safe

Flows in torrent

Sometimes

Waves of love made

waves

Markets

Office

keep Wash your tsunami

Sometimes

Crying for beauty

Fill the sky and the air

Spring song -

Sometimes

The awakened river

beats the broth To wake you up from

your dreams Spring songs soothe:

what no longer exists

You shouldn't miss

Sometimes

the memories are true

Memories are coming

true.