I don't know Bengali, and I'm looking for films with English subtitles. Apu trilogy for instance. Any platforms, suggestions etc will be of great help. Thanks!
I wasn't sure if this had been mentioned on this subreddit or not, thought members might like to know this.
I'm sorry that I had to discover this actor because of the unfortunate news.
But being a movie buff I like to keep myself aware of cinema across India, not just the South.
I googled & found out the feluda series - should I start with Sonar Kella?
Any other suggestions?
TIA
Sad news of one of cinema's greatest trilogies.
Soumitra Chatterjee dies aged 85, from covid complications.
The 85-year-old actor was admitted to hospital in Kolkata city on 6 October after he tested positive for the virus.
I think many of us will remember him walking away at the end of The World of Apu.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-54500364
> Legendary Indian actor Soumitra Chatterjee, famed for his work with Oscar-winning director Satyajit Ray, has died from Covid complications.
> The 85-year-old actor was admitted to hospital in Kolkata city on 6 October after he tested positive for the virus.
> He will be mourned by fans and critics who avidly followed his six-decade-long career in Bengali language films.
> Chatterjee, who starred in more than 300 movies, was also an accomplished playwright, theatre actor and poet.
> He tested negative a few weeks after he was admitted to hospital but his condition soon deteriorated and he was put on a ventilator in the last week of October. He died on Sunday morning.
> Chatterjee was perhaps best-known for his work with Ray, one of the world's most influential directors and maker of the much-feted Apu Trilogy. The series followed the life of a man who grew up in a Bengali village. The films garnered critical acclaim, winning many awards worldwide, and put Indian cinema on the global map.
> The third movie of the trilogy, Apur Sansar, which released in 1959, was also Chatterjee's debut film. He would go on to star as the lead actor in 14 of Ray's films.
> Pauline Kael, one of America's most influential and respected film critics, called Chatterjee Ray's "one-man stock company" who moved "so differently in the different roles he plays that he is almost unrecognisable".
> Chatterjee was awarded the Dada Saheb Phalke Award, the highest honour in Indian cinema, in 2012 and in 2018, he was given France's highest award, the Legion of Honour.
> He began acting when he was in school, where he starred in several plays. He was in college when a friend introduced him to Ray - it was a chance meeting, but it eventually led to Chatterjee's film debut.
> "I didn't know what to do when Mr Ray first asked me. I didn't know what was the real difference between stage and screen acting. I was afraid I'd overact," he told Marie Seton, film critic and biographer, in an interview.
> Chatterjee's roles in more than a dozen films made by the auteur spanned a wide range.
> He played a Sherlock Holmes-like detective in Sonar Kella, an effete bridegroom in Devi, a hot-tempered north Indian taxi driver in Abhijan, a city slicker in Aranyer Din Ratri, and a mild-mannered village priest in Ashani Sanket. He also played what Seton called a "thinly veiled portrait" of Nobel Prize-winn
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