Legendary Indian thespian Soumitra Chatterjee’s wife Deepa died at a private hospital in the eastern city of Kolkata on Sunday, within five months of each other. She was 82. Deepa, also a Bengali actress and director and a former state champion in badminton, passed away at Colombia Asia Hospital in the early hours of Sunday. She had been suffering from age-related ailments. Like her husband, Deepa began working in the Bengali film industry at a very young age. The couple had, in fact, met at a movie set and fell in love before tying the knot.
