Mamata inaugurates exhibition featuring paintings by Soumitra

Mamata Banerjee on Thursday opened an exhibition featuring paintings, film posters and costumes done by Soumitra Chatterjee. Also on display are his manuscripts and letters. The exhibition is being held at Emami Art, a gallery in the Kolkata Centre for Creativity in Anandapur, off EM Bypass. The exhibition is being jointly organised by The Soumitra Chatterjee Foundation, Emami Art and Mukhomukhi (a theatre group with a close association with Chatterjee) to celebrate the late actor’s 86th birth anniversary, which falls on January 19. The exhibition, curated by Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya, will continue till January 31.