Amitava Nag

A star was born in Bengali cinema with Soumitra Chatterjee as the King in Satyajit Ray’s Apur Sansar in 1959.

सौमित्र चैटर्जी एक अभिनेता रहे हैं इसके साथ वे बहुत एकांतप्रिय हैं। सत्यजित राय की ‘अपुर संसार’ से प्रारंभ कर तकरीबन छ: दशक उन्होंने अभिनय किया।

‘This book is not on cinema as such but on reflections on life by a star who was always human as he shared parts of his life with a much younger friend,’ says Nag of his book ‘Murmurs’

At the time of his death in November 2020 following COVID-19 complications, he was preceded perhaps by only Rabindranath Tagore and Satyajit Ray when it came to reverence. Noted author and film historian Gautam Chintamani reviews

Amitava Nag’s incredible book of conversations with Soumitra Chatterjee reads like an intimate close-up of the screen icon’s life. Noted film scholar and critic Shoma A Chatterji reviews.

Noted author and editor Sathya Saran reviews Murmurs: Silent Steals with Soumitra Chatterjee in The Hindu Business Line *The setting for these meetings is a garage turned into a very basic study with a low roof where the sunlight often struggles to enter *We learn that he is inspired by Tagore as a painter, and […]

The book gives a rare and personalized inside view of the mind-space of a cultural icon of our times. Amitava can bring us that.

“A teenage boy stood and waited outside the gate of the actor Soumitra Chatterjee’s house hoping to catch a glimpse of the then-sexagenarian legend. Over the years that boy managed to befriend the legend away from his screen life. Starting with an interview back in 2009, author Amitava Nag and Soumitra Chatterjee weaved a warm […]

Amitava Nag’s deeply reflective and personal book on Bengal’s last Renaissance man, Murmurs, is an intriguing literary work. It makes us wonder whether while celebrating the actor, we have overlooked the cerebral and deeply sensitive artiste who was constantly evolving and asking himself if he had given back as much as he had received over […]

New Book Paints Intimate Portrait of the legendary Soumitra Chatterjee, as a person and not the actor • Author Amitava Nag’s Rambling yet Entertaining Narratives Make for a Great Coffee Table

Noted film critic and documentary film maker Subha Das Mollick previewed ‘Murmurs’ and mentioned — “It is not an easy task to hook the reader with stream of consciousness words, phrases, sentences through 90 pages and 19 chapters. Amitava Nag’s book Murmurs: Silent steals with Soumitra Chatterjee succeeds in keeping his reader hooked as he […]