{"product_id":"pratham-kadam-phool-bengali-movie-dvd-indian-regional-cinema-60s-movie-tanuja-dvd","title":"Pratham Kadam Phool (Bengali Movie DvD \/ Indian Regional Cinema \/ 60's Movie \/ Tanuja) [DVD]","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Actor Soumitra Chatterjee , born on 19th January 1935, is known\u003cbr\u003e\namong other things for his frequent collaborations with the great Bengali film\u003cbr\u003e\ndirector Satyajit Ray. Soumitra studied at the Scottish Church College of the\u003cbr\u003e\nUniversity of Calcutta, graduating with honours in Bengali Literature. He has\u003cbr\u003e\nlived for a number of years in Calcutta in Satyajit Ray's old apartment. He\u003cbr\u003e\npassed M.A. examination in Bengali from the University of Calcutta. Soumitra's\u003cbr\u003e\nfilm debut came in 1959 in Satyajit Ray's Apur Sansar. His centrality to Ray's\u003cbr\u003e\nwork is akin to other key collaborations in the history of cinema. He also\u003cbr\u003e\nworked with Sharmila Tagore in a number of Ray films. Besides working with\u003cbr\u003e\nRay, Soumitra excelled in collaborations with other well-known Bengali\u003cbr\u003e\ndirectors such as Mrinal Sen and Tapan Sinha. He played the role of Shekhar in\u003cbr\u003e\nthe 1969 Ajoy Kar version of Parineeta. Soumitra has also been active in\u003cbr\u003e\nBengali theatre as an actor, playwright and director. He is a well-known\u003cbr\u003e\npoetry reciter, and has acted on TV and in indigenous folk drama. Soumitra has\u003cbr\u003e\nreceived the 'Officier des Arts et Metiers', the highest award for arts given\u003cbr\u003e\nby the French government, and a lifetime achievement award from Italy. He\u003cbr\u003e\nturned down the honorary Padma Shri award from the Indian government in the\u003cbr\u003e\nseventies; more recently, in 2004, he accepted the prestigious Padma Bhushan\u003cbr\u003e\naward from the President of India. He has been the subject of a full-length\u003cbr\u003e\ndocumentary named Gaach by French director Catherine Berge.","brand":"NA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44643969073318,"sku":"N0-Q1YP-OYC3","price":74.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/mahaekart.com\/products\/pratham-kadam-phool-bengali-movie-dvd-indian-regional-cinema-60s-movie-tanuja-dvd","provider":"Mahaekart LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}