Award, Pramathesh Chandra Barua Award, Shantigopal-Tapan Kumar Award, Uttam Kumar Award and others. He won the Bengal Film Journalists Association Awards for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Mrinal Sen's Chorus. Death Bandopadhyay died on 17 September 2020, after contracting COVID-19 in a nursing home in August, during the COVID-19 pandemic in India. He was 84. References AT 80, APU'S NEVER 'NOT BUSY' https://www.aajkaal.in/news/state/state-story-6ema https://bengali.news18.com/photogallery/entertainment/a-tribute-to-asit-banerjee-am-508148.html https://prohor.in/ajitesh-bandopadhyay-and-his-life/ https://bartamanpatrika.com/detailNews.php?cID=12&nID=249904&P=3 https://zeenews.india.com/bengali/kolkata/dramatist-of-a-class-but-in-dark-phase-almost-throughout-the-career_339602.html Indian male dramatists and playwrights 2020 deaths Indian male stage actors Male actors from Kolkata Screenwriters from Kolkata 1936 births Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in India Dramatists and playwrights from West Bengal