Veteran Bengali actor and Dadasaheb Phalke awardee Saumitra Chatterjee has contacted corona and has been hospitalized with mild fever, his family sources said adding he had to be taken to a hospital considering his age and comorbid conditions. Chatterjee is 85.
Poulami Chatterjee the daughter of Padma Bhushan award winning actor said, “he is stable. He had a fever in the last few days. We wanted to admit him as a precautionary measure since he has multiple comorbidities,” adding a three-member medical team was monitoring the legendary actor who is a patient of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Chatterjee is known for his life-long association with Oscar winning director Satyajit Ray playing the leading role in most of his classicsapart from playing private detective Feluda (also a Ray creation) inhis movies.