Bengali short film 'Boitorini' starring Soumitra Chatterjee released on YouTube

A Bengali short film Boitorini starring legendary actor Soumitra Chatterjee has been released on Youtube and OTT platform.
film directed by Anindya Dutta was released on Tuesday on a digital platform to commemorate 86th birthday of Chatterjee.

main le of Boitorini is played by late spian. Beside getting released on youtube at dedicated IP of a production house where people can see 29-minute film, it is also being streamed at an OTT.

story revolves around life of widower Sougata Roychoudhury (played by Soumitra Chatterjee), an eminent poet who is being houred by a literary society to have a serene holiday at Kusumpur forest, director said.

"For widower Sougata, this is also an escape from estranged family of his careerist son and as he traverses journey, a question storms his mind where does man escape after all? He tries to find answer in all that he could achieve in life. As a mysterious vill girl appears before him suddenly, he realises that re is a river that flows in between to separate life from death. ne can escape from suddenness of crossing it at end," Dutta said.

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About Soumitra Chatterjee

Dasaheb Phalke award-winning actor h a lion's share in unprecedented contribution to world of art and cinema. He was a multi-talented artist, performing numerous positions as a script artist, playwright, atre actor, author, and literary composer. Chatterjee was famous for his remarkable role in Satyajit Ray's Apu trilogy, Apur Sansar. legendary star, however, played memorable roles in or films that earned him heaps praise from fans and movie buffs. He shared great chemistry with legendary producer-director Satyajit Ray, who starred Chatterjee in 14 of his films. late actor appeared in over 200 movies, most of which were filmed in black and white.

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Soumitra Chatterjee bread his last at a private hospital in Kolkata on vember 15, 2020. He h been diagsed with COVID-19 and hospitalised since October 6. Despite recovering from disease, his health kept fluctuating, and finally succumbed to multi-organ failure.

(With PTI inputs)