One of my favorite #SoumitraChatterjee films: Saat Pake Baandha (1963) opposite Suchitra Sen at her powerhouse best. http://www.bethlovesbollywood.com/2014/01/saat-pake-bandha.html +

Teen Bhubaner Pare ( http://www.bethlovesbollywood.com/2014/09/teen-bhubaner-pare.html)and Pratham Kadam Phool ( http://www.bethlovesbollywood.com/2014/07/hopping-and-skipping-through-decades.html) w Tanuja join it to create a trio of gutting portraits of young faltering marriages. #SoumitraChatterjee

[This is just a thread of his films that I love and have also written about. It is not a complete list of my favorite of his films.] DEVI. This is Sharmila’s film and his performance complements hers perfectly. http://www.bethlovesbollywood.com/2012/10/devi.html

Barnali, which is romantic, quiet, and sweet - and a bonfire of his particular kind of broody, brainy, principled smoldering, to which I am highly susceptible. #SoumitraChatterjee

The swings of hope and desperation of Akash Kusum, another perfect performance. http://www.bethlovesbollywood.com/2014/05/akash-kusum-and-manzil.html
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The story of Baksha Badal is frustrating at times, but Soumitra’s Many Light Comedy Moods (and disguises) are A+. http://www.bethlovesbollywood.com/2013/01/mini-review-marathon-old-ish-bengali_13.html (this link also contains brief thoughts on Abhijan and Monihar) #SoumitraChatterjee

Khudito Pashan sees him as a dreamy young civil servant a little too eager to fall in love with a ghost. http://www.bethlovesbollywood.com/2012/12/khudito-pashan.html

Kapurush is another wonderful, gutting depiction of love unfinished. http://www.bethlovesbollywood.com/2012/08/kaparush.html

And I cannot end without mentioning Charulata. It is perfect and I love it with all my heart. But every time I try to write about it, that windstorm bursts in and scatters all my thoughts. #SoumitraChatterjee