Working with Satyajit Ray : Soumitra Chatterjee
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2024
- Bengali film actor Soumitra Chaterjee speaks about Bengali film director Satyajit Ray at the sets of Apur Sansar. He says " Very first day the sequence happen to be in the labelling and bottling shop where Apu goes in search of a job. I was rather tensed I must confess because I never faced a camera before except for a purpose of camera test which Mr Ray took of me but then the shooting went of very smoothly and in fact there wasn't one NG at all. But before the first day shooting, I would like to say that Mr. ray really prepared me for that because I am very sure that he must have assess my potential before he selected me for a role."
Soumitra Chatterjee or Soumitra Chattopadhyay (Shoumitro Chôttopaddhae; born 19 January 1935) is an Indian Bengali film and stage actor and poet. He is best known for his collaborations with Oscar-winning film director Satyajit Ray,with whom he worked in fourteen films, and his constant comparison with the Bengali cinema screen idol Uttam Kumar, his contemporary leading man of the 1960s and 1970s. Soumitra Chatterjee is also the first Indian film personality to be conferred with the Commandeur de l’ Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France's highest award for artists. He is also the winner of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award which is India's highest award for cinema.
Satyajit Ray was an Indian Bengali filmmaker, widely regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century. Ray was born in the city of Calcutta into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and literature. Starting his career as a commercial artist, Ray was drawn into independent filmmaking after meeting French filmmaker Jean Renoir and viewing Vittorio De Sica's Italian neorealist film Bicycle Thieves (1948) during a visit to London.
Ray directed 36 films, including feature films, documentaries and shorts. He was also a fiction writer, publisher, illustrator, calligrapher, music composer, graphic designer and film critic. He authored several short stories and novels, primarily aimed at children and adolescents. Feluda, the sleuth, and Professor Shonku, the scientist in his science fiction stories, are popular fictional characters created by him. He was awarded an honorary degree by Oxford University.
Ray's first film, Pather Panchali (1955), won eleven international prizes, including the inaugural Best Human Document award at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. This film, along with Aparajito (1956), and Apur Sansar (The World of Apu) (1959) form The Apu Trilogy. Ray did the scripting, casting, scoring, and editing, and designed his own credit titles and publicity material. Ray received many major awards in his career, including 32 Indian National Film Awards, a Golden Lion, a Golden Bear, 2 Silver Bears, a number of additional awards at international film festivals and award ceremonies, and an Academy Honorary Award in 1992. The Government of India honored him with the Bharat Ratna, its highest civilian award, in 1992.
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RIP My Hero. India has lost one of the most iconic and versatile actors of all time. Sad our government never gave the credit he deserved.
Why, didn't he get Dadasaheb Phalke ?
One of the greatest Actor of the world. What dignity, what especial command of the English language! Joi Bangla!!!
He is definitely a great actor. But there is nothing to be proud of his English. It's just another language. He didn't know Spanish, French, Portuguese, Russian and many more language. I am a great fan of his acting. His Feluda portrayal, his theatre excellence was really great.
Joy Bangla?
His smile 😍 ...wish there is more English interview of him.
The bengali actors of yesteryears are so conversant in both Bengali and English. Awesome.
Because most were highly educated and very well read.
@@MaxKropiunik Indeed, unlike Northies. The legendary music director Shri Salil Chowdhury had an even better command over English language
@@viruda21 I will not make any generalizations. I can only say that Bengali art cinema had a different origin therefore the kind of actors it attracted was of a higher intellect. Since you mention Salil Chowdhary, he was the only music director in Bombay Film industry who could read & write the western musical notation. He also did all the orchestration for his songs himself.
@@MaxKropiunik True brother. The list is fairly long😊
Command over English is not the only benchmark of a well read or articulated person. Command over any language is. Fascination towards English is a colonial legacy which, we, Indians , find very difficult to let go.
I love Soumitra Chatterjee
I respect Soumitra Chatterjee
For me it is an interview
This leads me to know Satyajit Ray
His glittering personality
His directing activities
At the sametime Soumitras capacity
to explore the world famous director
That Voice , is a Treasure. Listening to a dialogue deliverance in that Voice, is a historical Treasure.
- Yours truly, 90s kid.
He looks more like of Jeremy Brett... 😍 Living Legend indeed...wish more interview of this kind..
No he was more handsome than Jeremy Brett.
Intellectual , genius. Pride of india
Awesome. No one can compare .RIP Soumitra Chatterjee 😔
What a good-looking, eloquent and brilliant man Soumitra was...an absolutely legend. It's wonderful hearing these thespians speak about their craft and experiences. Great interview indeed! 👏
I don’t know about other qualities but he definitely is very good looking
My favourite and the best Feluda ever !!
Wow what a treat! It's great to get insights about Satyajit Ray's style of directing actors from an actor who worked so closely with Satyajit Ray. Like most actors, Soumitra Chaterjee too totally believed in Satyajit Ray's cause and let hime be moulded by the great director! Looking forward to more such rare clips on Satyajit Ray. Thank you.
The unsung " Mahanayak " .
Exactly
Soumitro never wanted to be mahanayak
This is utterly BEAUTIFUL ❤️
Mr. Soumitra is tremendous actor !!!
Satyajit Ray is our pride ❇️❇️
May his soul rest in peace. Well wishes for everyone from my this Bengali Poem Reciting channel! 🌼🎀🌷
What a wonderful person. I wish him all my age. 🌹
He will remain immortal
Very handsome.
Today superstars not a single percent of Mr chatterjee
I want to see you around. You can not die. I want to see you on screen everywhere!
Satyajit Roy 's classic movies !!!! Best part of these movies ..great artist. .personality S S sir express it very very clean and clearly. .Cinema 's pride with power. ..Cinema 's pride with beauty. ..wooow golden times that was !!!!!!!
Thank you wild films ......💐
RIP the great hero of Bengali cinema.. যেখানেই থাকো ভালো থেকো আমার প্রিয় অভিনেতা
My right ear enjoyed the video
Pillar of our Bengali Cinema😍🙏
Who is listening his voice in nov 2018
Every body...so that today's hero's like sharukh..salman amir can learn from him..
October 2019...SC a class act...such diction, flawless character...timeless
May, 2020, my friend. :D
A priceless genius!
BENGALI INDUSTRY WAS AT PAR WITH HOLLYWOOD BACK THEN...
Plz upload this kind of vintage videos interview ...
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My favorite what a directir actor combination
wonderful but it would be better if we would get the full interview...anyway thank you for uploading this video..
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Immortal… U shall always be missed Sir🙏
The interview looks incomplete, like it has been cut a few minutes before it actually ended.
At around @19:16 he admitted to being good looking….he knows he is pretty 🥰🥰
Yes, he was soooo good looking.🥰.
Can anyone say which year this interview taken
Who is here after his demise?
Please upload Abhijan with English subtitles
WHO IS HEAR AFTER SOUMITRA CHATTERJEE DEATH
Rip sir
হারিয়ে জাবে আমাদের গুরু
Interview ta r bakita kothay ??
Rip🙏
In 1998 while I was on my way to Vivek Ananda's house from central Kolkata Taltala walking, I met mobbed Mr.Soumitra at a temple...he caught my hand since I stepped into it in my slippers accidentally...proof(punk rock vest)/some English movie, elderly actor, collin glass-clear(alcohol) liquid, "hey boy what do you think you are doing here, don't you know that this is a holy place?"; BENGALI.😂😂
This goes to show that in order to be a regional actor one need not shun English. You can be equally good in more than one language, something that the Facebook "antels" don't understand and will accuse you of colonial hangover.
Yup….just shun Hindi 😒
@@user-yk5xu8gr1ehindi is not our language
@@sauravMAitra96 and English is??
@@user-yk5xu8gr1e english we use as a connecting language..