Theatre actor Alok Chatterjee died around 11 pm on Monday night, due to multiple organ failure at the age of 64. Lyricist Swanand Kirkire remembers his NSD batchmates Alok and Irrfan Khan on Instagram and wrote in a post saying, 'Alok Chatterjee.. ek nayaab abhineta chala gaya! Woh NSD mein Irrfan ke batchmate the (Alok Chatterjee. A unique actor is gone! He was Irrfan's batchmate in NSD.'

'Irrfan agar Kalidas the toh Alok Chatterjee Vilom! Vilom apne Kalidas se milne chala gaya! Rest in peace Aalok Bhai (If Irfan was Kalidas then Alok Chatterjee was Vilom! Vilom went to see his Kalidas! Rest in peace brother Alok)!' he concluded.

Alok Chatterjee and Irrfan Khan were batchmates at the National School of Drama from 1984-1987. Both played many lead roles in a variety of plays for those years. Alok was also a gold medalist at NSD and was also awarded the Sangeet Natak Academy awards for his contribution to Indian cinema. Alok directed many plays like Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman, also enacting in the play. He taught as a faculty at NSD and FTII and Later became the director of the Madhya Pradesh School of Drama.