Veteran Bengali filmmaker Haranath Chakraborty has tested positive for COVID-19 and been admitted to hospital.
Chakraborty got his positive report on Sunday and isolated himself at home. But when his health worsened this morning with a high fever, severe headache and fatigue, he got himself admitted in a private hospital in Kolkata.
According to a report on the website of The Times of India newspaper, the filmmaker has lost his sense of smell but not of taste. Fortunately, his oxygen saturation level is not alarming.
The director had taken the second shot of the COVID-19 vaccine in the last week of April along with fellow filmmakers Prabhat Roy and Sujit Guha. He had taken the first dose in the last week of March.
Maker of entertainers like Mangaldip (1989), Sasurbari Zindabad (2000) and Nabab Nandini (2007), Haranath Chakraborty was working on an untitled comedy featuring veteran Ranjit Mallick.
Mallick had taken ill during the first wave of COVID-19 last year, along with daughter and actress Koel Mallick, wife Deepa Mallick and son-in-law and producer Nispal Singh. All of them eventually recovered well.