Soumitra Chatterjee’s Funeral Held With Gun Salute; Mamata Banerjee And Others Attend
Soumitra Chatterjee’s funeral: Mamata Banerjee at Rabindra Sadan. (courtesy ANI)
Highlights
- Soumitra Chatterjee died on Sunday afternoon
- He died at Kolkata’s Belle Vue Health facility, the place he used to be admitted since Octobe
- His funeral used to be held at Keoratala Crematorium
New Delhi:
Some of the Bengali movie trade’s largest actors, Soumitra Chatterjee died on Sunday afternoon in Kolkata. The actor, 85, died 40 days after he used to be admitted to Kolkata’s Belle Vue Health facility with COVID-19. His funeral used to be held at Keoratala Crematorium in Kolkata on Sunday night with whole police honours. He used to be honoured with gun salute by way of the Kolkata Police. West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee, who used to be additionally on the medical institution this morning to be with the actor’s circle of relatives after his loss of life, attended the funeral. A number of cinema personalities from the Bengali movie trade had been additionally provide. Soumitra Chatterjee’s final rites had been preceded by way of a funeral procession from Rabindra Sadan to Keoratala Crematorium, which used to be attended by way of masses of fanatics, Bengali cinema celebrities and Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee.
After his loss of life, Mr Chatterjee’s frame used to be taken from the medical institution to his Golfing Inexperienced place of abode after which to the Technician Studio in Tollygunge. Within the afternoon, Soumitra Chatterjee’s frame used to be taken to Rabindra Sadan, hub of Bengali cinema, the place a lot of fanatics paid their final respects.
At Soumitra Chatterjee’s funeral procession, artists and celebs paid tributes to the overdue actor by way of reciting poems composed by way of him and making a song Rabindra Sangeet, making a mournful however surreal setting.
Soumitra Chatterjee used to be admitted to Belle Vue Health facility on October 6, an afternoon after he used to be identified with COVID-19. The actor examined unfavorable a bit of after per week on October 14 however his well being situation deteriorated after that. He used to be placed on a number of existence reinforce methods this week after he stopped responding to remedy. “Soumitra Chatterjee isn’t responding to remedy. Even miracles would possibly fall quick on this scenario,” a health care provider treating the thespian on the medical institution had stated in a scientific bulletin on Saturday.
On Sunday, an legitimate remark about his loss of life learn: “We claim with heavy middle that Shri Soumitra Chattopadhyay breathed his final at 12-15 pm at Belle Vue Health facility these days (15 November 2020). We pay our homage to his soul.”
Soumitra Chatterjee, in his six-decade lengthy movie profession, labored in seriously acclaimed Bengali movies and collaborated with the long-lasting filmmaker Satyajit Ray for 14 occasions for films like Apur Sansar, Charulata, Devi, Youngster Kanya, Ghare Baire, and Ganashatru. He used to be best-known for taking part in the jobs of Apu in Apur Sansar and Feluda in Satyajit Ray’s movies Sonar Kella and Pleasure Baba Felunath. Soumitra Chatterjee used to be additionally directed by way of different Bengali cinematic greats, together with Mrinal Sen, Tapan Sinha, Ajoy Kar. His final large display free up used to be 2019’s Sanjhbati.
