Soumitra Chatterjee presented Legion d Honneur
Tuesday - January 30, 2018 9:36 pm ,
Category : ART & LITERATURE
Soumitra Chatterjee presented Legion d Honneur
Kolkata Jan 30 (IANS) Legendary Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee was on Tuesday presented France s highest civilian award Legion d Honneur at a function here.
French Ambassador Alexandre Ziegler presented the medal to the versatile octogenarian who has delved into multiple cultural genres. Apart from his chief vocation of acting he has also dabbled in painting composed poems written and directed plays edited a Bengali magazine and is also a much-acclaimed elocutionist.
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