Apu, Felu Mittir, Udayan Pandit, Mayurbahan are some of the roles that have been made famous by Soumitra Chatterjee. The veteran actor passed away recently. However, his vast expanse of works as an actor, elocutionist, painter, author, editor, theatre personality, and so on remains.

A wall calendar titled “Apur Panchali” was released in the presence of Surojit Kala, Rupak Saha, Sudipta Chanda, Sougata Chattopadhyay( Son of Soumitra Chattopadhyay), Debojyoti Mishra, Devajit Bandyopadhyay, Sujoy Prosad Chatterjee, Riddhi Bandyopadhyay, Gautam Dey ( Regional Director, ICCR, Kolkata).

The calendar shows Ray’s Soumitra to Mrinal Sen, Tapan Sinha, Ajay Kar, Asit Sen, the next generation directors like Sandeep Ray, Atanu Ghosh, Anik Dutt, Shiboprosad-Nandita duo’s work, and all the work has fascinated Soumitra in a new way.

The cover has been illustrated by Sid Ghosh.

The calendar has movie posters, images of booklets. Soumitra Chatterjee was also good at painting. There are various pictures starting from his self-portrait on a page of the calendar. He even wrote several books and even edited magazine like “Ekkhon”. This calendar portrayed Soumitra in different styles.

A great calendar to treasure!!

Priyanka Dutta