বাংলা 
English 
Soumitra Chatterjee (born 19 January 1935) is an Indian Bengali film actor. Soumitra Chatterjee has acted in 14 of the 34 films of the famous film director Satyajit Ray.
Soumitra Chatterjee studied literature at Calcutta University (City College, Amherst Street, Calcutta). In 1959 he acted for the first time in Apur Sansar, directed by Satyajit Ray. Later he also worked with directors like Mrinal Sen, Tapan Sinha and Ajay Kar.
Besides cinema, he acted in many plays, jatra and TV serials.
Besides acting, he wrote plays and poems and directed productions. He was a reciter of the very highest order.
The original home of the Chatterjee family was in Kaya village near Shilaidaha of Kushtia (in present-day Bangladesh). From the time of Soumitra Chatterjee's grandfather, the members of the Chatterjee family began living in Krishnanagar of Nadia district. Soumitra's father practised law at the Calcutta High Court and came home every weekend. Soumitra studied up to class five at the St John's school in Krishnanagar. Afterwards, because of his father's job transfers, Soumitra's school kept changing, and he finished his school education at the Howrah District School. Then, after passing I Sc and later BA honours (Bengali) from City College in Calcutta, he studied for two years at the Post Graduate College of Arts.
Soumitra Chatterjee's very first work was in Apur Sansar, a film of the renowned filmmaker Satyajit Ray, made in 1959. Before that he was a radio announcer and acted in small roles on the stage. Gradually he acted in 14 films with Satyajit Ray. He appeared in different characters in the various films made by Ray; looking at some of the characters he played, it is felt that the stories or screenplays were written with him in mind. Among the characters he played, the most popular is Feluda. He played the role of Feluda in Satyajit Ray's films Sonar Kella and Joy Baba Felunath. Although at first Ray wished to cast someone better than him in the role of Feluda, after the release of his first Feluda film, Sonar Kella, he (Satyajit Ray) acknowledged that no one better than him could have made the film.
Soumitra Chatterjee received France's highest honour, 'Officier des Arts et Metiers'. In the seventies he was offered the Padma Shri, but he did not accept it. Later he received the Padma Bhushan award.
In 2012 he received the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, India's highest cinema award.
