Amitava Nag’s incredible book of conversations with Soumitra Chatterjee reads like an intimate close-up of the screen icon’s life. Noted film scholar and critic Shoma A Chatterji reviews.

Noted author and editor Sathya Saran reviews Murmurs: Silent Steals with Soumitra Chatterjee in The Hindu Business Line *The setting for these meetings is a garage turned into a very basic study with a low roof where the sunlight often struggles to enter *We learn that he is inspired by Tagore as a painter, and not, as one would expect, Satyajit Ray *Nag also draws out Chatterjee’s admiration for Pele, Gary Sobers, and to an extent Tendulkar

The book gives a rare and personalized inside view of the mind-space of a cultural icon of our times. Amitava can bring us that.

“A teenage boy stood and waited outside the gate of the actor Soumitra Chatterjee’s house hoping to catch a glimpse of the then-sexagenarian legend. Over the years that boy managed to befriend the legend away from his screen life. Starting with an interview back in 2009, author Amitava Nag and Soumitra Chatterjee weaved a warm and translucent friendship that transcended the barrier that usually exists between actors and their admirers” – Murmurs: Silent Steals with Soumitra Chatterjee is a result of that wonderful friendship.

Amitava Nag’s deeply reflective and personal book on Bengal’s last Renaissance man, Murmurs, is an intriguing literary work. It makes us wonder whether while celebrating the actor, we have overlooked the cerebral and deeply sensitive artiste who was constantly evolving and asking himself if he had given back as much as he had received over the course of his long and illustrious career.

New Book Paints Intimate Portrait of the legendary Soumitra Chatterjee, as a person and not the actor • Author Amitava Nag’s Rambling yet Entertaining Narratives Make for a Great Coffee Table

Amitava Akash Nag’s New book Murmurs: Silent Steals with Soumitra Chatterjee is a memoir unlike any other. An introspective and ruminative recollection of the author’s conversations with the late actor, the book offers us an intimate look at the man who was much more than an actor. “In cinema, I did reject roles on merit at times. I was never very perturbed about remunerations a role may offer. Why else do you think I rejected the offers from Bombay? Even from Hrishikesh Mukherjee. But in hindsight, a stint in Bombay would have secured the future, he fiddles with his ancient non-touchscreen, petite mobile phone.” – An excerpt from the book. Cinemaazi Magazine publishes a beautiful preview of the book along with excerpts from the book.

Noted film critic and documentary film maker Subha Das Mollick previewed ‘Murmurs’ and mentioned — “It is not an easy task to hook the reader with stream of consciousness words, phrases, sentences through 90 pages and 19 chapters. Amitava Nag’s book Murmurs: Silent steals with Soumitra Chatterjee succeeds in keeping his reader hooked as he weaves an abstract tapestry with fragments of memory around the author’s numerous engagements with Soumitra Chatterjee…..”

An excerpt from a new essay of conversations with the legendary actor – “Frankly, I never thought it like this. Yes, I was lucky in the initial days with my choice of films. I think you have a point. It will be a privilege to be compared with Tendulkar, any day, he flashes his brilliant smile in happy sustenance.” Don’t miss this intimate conversation with Soumitra Chatterjee. ~ Scroll.in carries an excerpt of Murmurs: Silent Steals with Soumitra Chatterjee

In conversation with the editors of the film magazine The World of Apu.

Amitava Nag speaks to Oorvazi Irani, Filmmaker, Film Educationalist and Acting Coach

Interview conducted by Learning and Creativity Chief Editor Antara Nanda Mondal

An interview conducted by Aseem Chhabra on Beyond Apu: 20 Favourite Film Roles of Soumitra Chatterjee

R J Roy of Radio One FM channel interviews Amitava on 5 February 2019 regarding Satyajit Ray’s Heroes and Heroines

In conversation with veteran critic Shoma A Chatterji on Satyajit Ray’s Heroes and Heroines

In a conversation with Learning and Creativity Chief Editor Antara Nanda Mondal on Satyajit Ray’s Heroes and Heroines