Aparajito Soumitra Chatterjee still remained undefeated on demise

Soumitra chatterjee on his demise also remained Aparajito or undefeated. Soumitra Chatterjee, the legendary actor died on 15th November 2020 at the age of 85 years. The great innings of Apu the name of his first film with Satyajit Ray, ended. But he remained undefeated. He was a good actor, good stage performer, educated, poet and elocutionist. He was blessed to be associated with the best directors of India, namely Oscar Winning director Satyait Ray, Tapan Sinha, Ajoy Kar, to name a few. Right from the first character of Apu in Apur Sangsar directed by Satyajit Ray, he became a directors’s central character and author backed hero. The legendary literature of Bibhutibhushan Banerjee and great director of Satyajit Ray found expression in him in 1959. From that time onwards, the major characters he played became immortal in celluloid, and viewers started calling him by the character. In Tapan Sinha’s Jhinder Bandi, he played a negative character named Mayur Bahon, and did a great job there. In Ajoy Kar’s Saat Pake Bandha he was a sub-dew character being the husband of Suchitra Sen, whose marriage failed due to over interference of mother in law Chaya Debi. It was a female oriented film, yet Soumitra showed the courage to accept the role. In Satyajit Ray’s other films, Abhijan, Charulata, Debi, he kept his mark. But for child filmlover he was loved the most in the character of Feluda. Ray in his lifetime only made 2 films, Sonar Kella and Joy Baba Felunath in the Feluda series. Those two films remained the best two films in the Feluda series ever. As a detective, Soumitra Chatterjee’s own likings and mannerism, matched the best in the role of Pradosh Mitra. He was sublime in Tapan Sinha’s film Atanka, and in his later years, Shiboprasad Mukherjee and Nandita Sen films like Belasheshe and Posto. The literary community loved him a lot for his love for literature, his poems, his recitations. Every good actor has to die a day, but actors of the callibre of Soumitra Chatterjee never die, he remained sublime as aparajito the undefeated, in his works in the stage, in celluloid, poetry and literary works. His works should be preserved and restored.