Soumitra Chatterjee with his wife Deepa Chatterjee
Legendary Indian Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee’s wife Deepa Chatterjee died at a hospital in Kolkata on Sunday, reports PTI citing her family.
Her daughter Poulomi Bose said, “Maa (Deepa Chatterjee) breathed her last around 2:55 am. She died of kidney failure.”
Deepa Chatterjee, 83, was admitted to the hospital on March 31.
Soumitra Chatterjee died in November last year following a long battle with various diseases after testing positive for COVID-19.
Deepa, a badminton champion who had also acted in films like ‘Durga’ and ‘Bilombito Loy’, married Soumitra in 1960.
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