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Ajke Dada'r jonye khub mon kharap korche. Dada maney amar paternal grandfather bodhae benche thakle aaj Soumitra'r boyesh er kacha kachi e hoto. #SoumitraChatterjee 1/n
Feluda'r moton Soumitra Chatterjee keo chena amar Dada'r doulotei. My first intro to Soumitra sir was in the cinematic depiction of Satyajit Ray's Sonar Kella and the 2nd tryst with him was in the pages of big fat Feluda collection my dad had gifted me from book fair that year.
So when the 7-year-old me had seen this tall, handsome, baritoned-voice Soumitra Chatterjee at a reading session in British Council Calcutta's library, I couldn't remember a single word he read out or recited.
All I could think about was if he ever got to know whether Satyajit Ray illustrated Feluda keeping him in mind or did he cast him after he illustrated the character. How can the two fit into each other so perfectly, if it's not the former?
I never had the guts back then to walk up to him and ask this very valid doubt of mine. Much later, I found out that my father had happened to ask him the same question at one such office party. And he had just shrugged and smiled.
Much like the other fictions in my head, I grew up believing I'd never receive a closure on this. It never bothered me. I went onto watch and be enamoured by several of his other legendary films, from Apu'r Sansar to the much recent Bela Seshe, to his recitals to his theatre.
As a kid, Soumitra Chatterjee'r notun kichhu dekhle shobaar prothom e Dada'r kachei jetam to have an elaborate discussion. It was intriguing to talk to him about it. After his passing away, like for many other things, a deep painful void had remained for this tea-time chat too.
Maybe even today Soumitra Chatterjee's void feels this personal because Dada and I, while discussing about him, had made him our personal little time-off, a name we would critique and congratulate like one of our own.
So today, while I show anguish for the year that has taken away such a big part of cinema from our lives and mourn his loss, there is something more important that has to be said: a THANK YOU. 
Thank You Soumitra Chatterjee for your cinema, for your spirit and dedication towards work, for your immortal recitals, for being Dada and my little personal chat and for always making me believe "Ache ache, Telepathy'r jor ache". You will live on. Rest in power, Soumitra sir.
