a senior doctor at the facility said on 9 October. The 85-year-old actor was at an “acute confusional stage”. “Mr Chatterjee has been shifted to the ITU after he has been experiencing restlessness and reached an acute confusional stage. We have shifted him to the ITU for close monitoring. He is having several comorbidities, that’s why we need to be more careful,” the doctor told a news agency. Chatterjee had symptchronic obstructive pulmonary disease-related problems. Last year, he had suffered a bout of pneumonia and was admitted to a hospital for a few days.
He was shooting for a documentary titled Abhijan directed by actor Parambrata Chattopadhyay. He is best known for his collaborations with Oscar-winning film director Satyajit Ray, with whom he worked in fourteen films. Soumitra Chattopadhyay is also the first Indian film personality conferred with the Ordre des Arts et Lettres, France’s highest award for artists.
