Dhaka, Oct. 16 -- Veteran Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday. He has been admitted to a hospital in Kolkata. The octogenarian actor was unwell and he tested positive for the infection on Thursday morning.

Soumitra Chatterjee is an Indian film actor. He is best known for his collaborations with Oscar-winning film director Satyajit Ray, with whom he worked in fourteen films. He is also the first Indian film personality conferred with the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France's highest award for artists. He is also the winner of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award which is India's highest award for cinema. In 2018 exactly thirty years after auteur Satyajit Ray was honoured with France's highest civilian award,...