Veteran actor Dipankar De at the age of 75 married his longtime girlfriend Dolon Roy on January 16th after several years of living together. The couple proudly showed the world that age is just a number. However on the 17th just one day after the wedding De complained of breathlessness and was rushed to a hospital in Kolkata where he is in intensive care.

Dipankar De is one of the finest actors ever produced in Bengali cinema and has worked with notable directors including Sathyajith Ray, Mrinal Sen, Rituparno Ghosh, Aparna Sen and Buddhadeb Dasgupta in hundreds of films and television serials as well. Dolon Roy is currently working in 'Alo Chhaya' and ‘Anyo Jashoda’ but now has to take time off to tend to her husband whose condition is said to be improving at the time of this writing.