Smaran Ghosal

Smaran Ghosal, who portrayed the young Apu in Satyajit Ray's Aparajito, passed away Thursday night from cardiac failure at his home in south Kolkata. He was 64. His wife and two daughters are Ghosal's only survivors. Smaran Ghosal changed into an actor, regarded for Aparajito 1956) and (Rabindranath Tagore (1961). He died on July 10, 2008. In the second installment of the Apu trilogy, Ghosal was just 14 years old when Ray chose him to play the young Apu who travels to the city in quest of a means of subsistence. As the youthful poet in Ray's documentary Rabindranath Tagore, Ghosal appeared in front of the camera for the second time. However, "Apu" avoided the arclights for the rest of his life.

Ghosal, a lover of the natural world and wildlife, operated a travel business out of his home at 10 Meher Ali Road. Kamal Sengupta, a neighbor, and acquaintance remarked, "He lived with his wife and several pet pets. Ghosal was interested in promoting rifle shooting as a sport while serving as the secretary of the South Calcutta Rifle Club. Soumitra Chatterjee Soumitra Chatterjee was born on January 19, 1935, >> Read More... soon stated on Smaran Ghosal that he had met Ghosal a couple of times at some point in the making of Aparajito. Whatever he noticed about him became withinside the film, in which he left an enduring effect as an actor.