for an iconic figure like soumitra chatterjee its quite embarrassing to see modern bengali actors not having the credibility to speak even their mother tongue properlywhile speaking about the same during a recent media interaction the thespian reportedly said that in the late 1990s he once needed 40 actors for one of his plays for budget constraints he couldnt hire professional actors soumitra had no other choice but to recruit a group of ambitious young artists who were apparently passionate about acting but during rehearsals soumitra reportedly discovered almost all of them couldnt even properly speak bengali he further added this problem is more prominent in recent timesmentioning another incident the 83year old legendary actor reportedly revealed it happened during the shoot of a film near late poet shakti chattopadhyays residence while he was on a break in the sets he paid a visit to the late chattopadhyays wife when he came back to the sets a coactor apparently asked him if he could meet the poet a shocked soumitra replied this is impossible unless shakti calls him from beyond mortal boundaries