Renowned Bengali filmmaker and theatre personality Goutam Halder died of cardiac arrest here on Friday. He was 67. Halder died at a private hospital, where he was admitted after complaining of chest pain at his Salt Lake residence in the morning, sources in the Bengali film industry said.

He had directed around 80 stage plays, including Rabindranath Tagore`s `Rakta Karabi` recently. Halder had made his first Bengali film `Bhalo Theko` in 2003, with actor Vidya Balan in the lead role. He also directed `Nirvana` with Rakhi Gulzar in the lead role in 2019.