Deepa Chatterjee, wife of actor Soumitra Chatterjee, died in a Salt Lake hospital early on Sunday. She was 83.

Deepa was a diabetic for 45 years and she succumbed to renal failure after being hospitalised for deteriorating health on March 31, sources said.

She is survived by daughter Paulami Bose, who runs the theatre group Mukhomukhi, and son Sougata Chatterjee.

Soumitra had expired last November after a 40-day battle with Covid-related complications. Their grandson Ronodeep is recovering from a brain injury after an accident.

A badminton player of national eminence in her youth, Deepa also featured in a handful of films, the most prominent being the 1970 movie Bilambita Lay, starring Uttam Kumar and Supriya Choudhury, and the 2001 production Durga, alongside Soumitra.

She also appeared in Catherine Berge’s 1998 documentary on Soumitra Chatterjee, titled Gaach (The Tree). She married Soumitra in 1960.