Veteran Bengali Actor Soumitra Chatterjee passes away at 85

The legendary Bengali actor and Dadasaheb Phalke award recipient Soumitra Chatterjee has passed away. He was 85.
He became famously known after his collaborations with Oscar-winning film director Satyajit Ray, with whom he worked in fourteen films.
He had won a number of awards in home and abroad.
He was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 2004, Dadasaheb Phalke Award, India’s highest award for cinema, in 2012.
In 1999 Soumitra Chattopadhyay became the first Indian film personality to be conferred with the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France’s highest award for artists.