Tapen Chatterjee Explained

Tapen Chatterjee
Birth Date:1937 9, df=yes
Birth Place:Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India
Death Date:[1]
Death Place:Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Nationality:Indian
Known For:Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (1969)
(1980)
Goopy Bagha Phire Elo (1991)
Occupation:Actor

Tapen Chatterjee (3 September 1937  - 24 May 2010) was a Bengali actor from India who played several roles in Satyajit Ray's films, notably as Goopy Gyne in Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (1968), and its sequels (1980) and Goopy Bagha Phire Elo (1992). Chatterjee died on 24 May 2010 at the age of 72. He was suffering from pulmonary ailments.

Career

As a qualified engineer, Chatterjee had a job in Rajasthan, following which he came back to Kolkata and joined Sandesh, the Bengali magazine revived by Satyajit Ray. He started his career in the advertisement department of the children's magazine Sandesh. Ray cast him in a cameo in Mahanagar and then famously as the singer Goopy Gyne in Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne. The song Aaha Ki Aananda Aakshe Batashe filmed on him Goopy and Rabi Ghosh as Bagha Byne still stirs the memory of the Bengali film lovers.

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1963Mahanagar
1969Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne
1970Rupasi Handa, Balaram's brother [2]
1971Dhanyee Meye Sabitri's brother
1973Shriman Prithviraj School Sentry
1973Nanigopaler Biye Dilip
1974Sangini
1974Bikele Bhorer Phul
1974Thagini
1977Bhola Moira
1977Hate Raila Tin
1979Ganadevata Tara Napit
1980Aanchal Produced
1980Goopy Gayen
1991Goopy Bagha Phire Elo Goopy
1996Rabibar
1997Sriman Bhootnath
2009Narak Guljar (final film role)

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Harris M. Lentz III. Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2010. 8 June 2011. McFarland. 978-0-7864-8649-6. 65–.
  2. http://www.gomolo.com/rupasi-movie-cast-crew/{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}