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Some Lesser Known Facts About Tamal Roy Chowdhury

• Tamal Roy Chowdhury started his acting career as a theatre artist. Reportedly, he worked in the theatre all his life.

• Later, he shifted to acting in films. He is known for appearing in Bengali hit films.

• Tamal Roy Chowdhury had appeared in many art films, including Challenge, Amazon Obhijaan, Chander Pahar, Jaatishwar, and Gorosthaney Sabdhan.

• He came into the limelight in 2006 when he appeared in Mira Nair’s film The Namesake, in which he played the role of Ashoke, the father of Irrfan Khan‘s character.
  

  An old picture of Tamal Roy Chowdhury in a still from a film

• In the mid-1990s, he started working in various popular Bengali television serials.

• In 2022, Tamal Roy Chowdhury was last seen in the Bengali film Bhotbhoti, which was directed by Tathagata Mukherjee.

• On 9 March 2026, he passed away at the age of 80. He suffered a cardiac arrest at his South Kolkata home while he was sleeping. Reportedly, he had a pacemaker surgery before his death.