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== Career == |
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In 2019, Chatterjee lent his voice for narration in ''If Not for You'',<ref name="if not for you">{{cite web|date=24 May 2019|title=If Not for You (2019)|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10418976/|access-date=21 June 2020}}</ref> a documentary about ]'s long lasting love affair with legendary singer-songwriter ]. About his acting qualities, Satyajit Ray once remarked, "I do not know what definition of a star these filmmakers have been using, but mine goes something like this. A star is a person on the screen who continues to be expressive and interesting even after he or she has stopped doing anything. This definition does not exclude the rare and lucky breed that gets lakhs of rupees per film; and it includes everyone who keeps his calm before the camera, projects a personality and evokes empathy. This is a rare breed too but one has met it in our films. Dhritiman Chatterjee of Pratidwandi is such a star." - (''Our Films Their Films'') <ref>{{Cite web|title=Dhritiman Chatterjee finds Satyajit Ray’s film relevant during ongoing second surge|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/calcutta/dhritiman-chatterjee-finds-satyajit-rays-films-relevant-in-current-times-of-religious-polarisation/cid/1815893|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210518030248/https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/calcutta/dhritiman-chatterjee-finds-satyajit-rays-films-relevant-in-current-times-of-religious-polarisation/cid/1815893 |archive-date=18 May 2021 }}</ref> |
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In 2019, Chatterjee lent his voice for narration in ''If Not for You'', a documentary about ]'s long lasting love affair with legendary singer-songwriter ]. About his acting qualities, Satyajit Ray once remarked, "I do not know what definition of a star these filmmakers have been using, but mine goes something like this. A star is a person on the screen who continues to be expressive and interesting even after he or she has stopped doing anything. This definition does not exclude the rare and lucky breed that gets lakhs of rupees per film; and it includes everyone who keeps his calm before the camera, projects a personality and evokes empathy. This is a rare breed too but one has met it in our films. Dhritiman Chatterjee of Pratidwandi is such a star." - (''Our Films Their Films'')<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dhritiman Chatterjee finds Satyajit Ray’s film relevant during ongoing second surge|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/calcutta/dhritiman-chatterjee-finds-satyajit-rays-films-relevant-in-current-times-of-religious-polarisation/cid/1815893|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210518030248/https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/calcutta/dhritiman-chatterjee-finds-satyajit-rays-films-relevant-in-current-times-of-religious-polarisation/cid/1815893 |archive-date=18 May 2021 }}</ref> |
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Never a part of mainstream "Bollywood", he's made an astonishingly small number of films. In recent years he's taken roles with filmmakers as diverse as Jane Campion and hugely successful Mumbai directors Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Mani Ratnam.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dhritiman Chatterjee: 5 iconic roles of the actor in Bengali cinema|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bengali/movies/photo-features/dhritiman-chatterjee-5-iconic-roles-of-the-actor-in-bengali-cinema/photostory/64663981.cms|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210625222539/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bengali/movies/photo-features/dhritiman-chatterjee-5-iconic-roles-of-the-actor-in-bengali-cinema/photostory/64663981.cms |archive-date=25 June 2021 }}</ref> Dhritiman has received several acting awards in India and has been on the Jury of the Indian National film Awards. |
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Never a part of mainstream "Bollywood", he's made an astonishingly small number of films. In recent years he's taken roles with filmmakers as diverse as Jane Campion and hugely successful Mumbai directors Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Mani Ratnam.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dhritiman Chatterjee: 5 iconic roles of the actor in Bengali cinema|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bengali/movies/photo-features/dhritiman-chatterjee-5-iconic-roles-of-the-actor-in-bengali-cinema/photostory/64663981.cms|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210625222539/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bengali/movies/photo-features/dhritiman-chatterjee-5-iconic-roles-of-the-actor-in-bengali-cinema/photostory/64663981.cms |archive-date=25 June 2021 }}</ref> Dhritiman has received several acting awards in India and has been on the Jury of the Indian National film Awards. |
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==See also== |
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Dhritiman is his screen name. He is otherwise known as Sundar Chatterjee and is quite active on the English stage in Chennai. Born on 30 May 1945, he was educated at Kolkata's St Xavier's Collegiate School and Presidency College, and the Delhi School of Economics. Chatterjee went on to pursue a parallel career in advertising, social communications and documentary filmmaking.
Never a part of mainstream "Bollywood", he's made an astonishingly small number of films. In recent years he's taken roles with filmmakers as diverse as Jane Campion and hugely successful Mumbai directors Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Mani Ratnam. Dhritiman has received several acting awards in India and has been on the Jury of the Indian National film Awards.
Chatterjee at the IFFI, 2012
