{"id":33607,"date":"2020-11-16T05:06:33","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T05:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=33607"},"modified":"2020-11-16T05:06:35","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T05:06:35","slug":"bengali-actor-soumitra-chatterjee-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/bengali-actor-soumitra-chatterjee-passed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee passed away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Legendary Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee passed away. Soumitra Chatterjee (1935 \u20142020) was an Indian film actor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key-Points<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>He was best known for his collaborations with Oscar-winning film director Satyajit Ray, with whom he worked in fourteen films.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1999 Soumitra Chattopadhyay became the first Indian film personality to be conferred with the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France&#8217;s highest award for artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was also the winner of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award which is India&#8217;s highest award for cinema.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As an actor in Bengali theatre, he received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1998, given by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India&#8217;s National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee passed away. Soumitra Chatterjee (1935 \u20142020) was an Indian film actor. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points He was best known for his collaborations with Oscar-winning film director Satyajit Ray, with whom he worked in fourteen films. In 1999 Soumitra Chattopadhyay became the first Indian film personality to be conferred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":33608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1329],"tags":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-33607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-november-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33609,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33607\/revisions\/33609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33607"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=33607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}