Chattererjee Trio of Bengali film industry.

Three chattererjees have been taking key role in Bengali films for about last seventy years. The Chattererjees are Uttamkuar chattererjee,Soumitra Chattererjee and Prasenjit Chattererjee. Apart from these chatterjees   a good number of actors worked as hero , they were no doubt very competent actors but their career as hero were not so prolong like Chattererjees. 

Prior to Uttamkuar Durgadas Bandapadhya and Pramathesh Barua were very popular heros .

Our discussion will restrict to the three Chattererjees only.

Uttamkuar.

Uttamkuar seems to be the most colourful actor of Bengali film. During his career of three decades he became the authority of Bengali films. During initial days he had passed some bad time for a short period but from "Bosu paribar" to the last day of his life he had not to look behind.He was truly  undeclared monarch of Bengali films.

He enjoyed through out his career unprecedented popularity.

He was a devotee  of acting. He seems to have made various experiments about acting. I had an excellent opportunity to watch his outdoor shooting at road side and I was simply astonished to see his dedication. He was alone preparing before shooting and he was looking absolutely a different person and as if he had no sense and became a part of the character.

I believe such things are rarely found in an actor.Besides he is a self made actor and he did not get any formal education of acting. His premature death has caused tremendous loss to Bengali Bengali flims.

  Soumitra chattererjee.

After Uttamkuar he is the most important actor.So far I remember his debut  was in 1959 in "Apur sansar "  of Satyajit Roy .He is the most fortunate actor . He has worked with Satyajit Roy for his highest number of Bengali films.He is a powerful actor besides he was enough fortunate to get guidance from Satyajit Ray. His career has been possibly the longest about sixty years and naturally he has worked in huge number of films.

He is a very powerful and educated actor. His pronouncation is very good. He is also very good in recitation. He is also a good actor of stage.   

     Prasenjit Chattererjee.

  Prasenjit Chattererjee first appeared in 1967 in Bengali film as a child artist. He seems to have continuously in the Bengali films for more than three decades. After Uttamkuar and Soumitra  he is the third chattererjee who has got success and has been working with authority for a long time. To me so far his acting is concerned he is far behind from the two other senior chattererjees.To me  not only in acting but also figure and appearance is concerned junior most chattererjee is far behind.

Prasenjit has worked in plenty of films of which most of the films could not  achieve desired results. He is however reported to have worked very nice in number of his late films. I watched one of the same named Moner Manush and more or less he worked good.However he is working with authority.

Incidentally it may be mentioned that he has been acting on small screen in the character of Uttamkuar and unfortunately the same has disappointed me . To me his pronouncation seems to be not clear and style of speaking needs more attention.

Of course this is purely my personal opinion. Besides I have no background of acting.