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Tag Archives: Uttam Kumar
Twenty-four school students aged 13 to 15 watched Satyajit Ray's Nayak (1966) and completed the same questionnaire twice: once on the strength of their own viewing, and once after a guided close reading...
The whip remains, but the ‘dada’ changes. Piu Mahapatra explores how Uttam Kumar’s elder-brother roles across four decades mirror the changing Bengali family, and a changing Bengal.
For nearly three decades following India’s independence, Uttam Kumar was the surest bet behind the success of Bengali films as commercial products, his fame even spreading across the eastern border. Someswar Bhowmik...
On July 20, 1980, Uttam Kumar had given an extensive two-hour-long (recorded) interview to Ratnottama Sengupta, presumably his last press interview. The Mahanayak passed away on July 24, 1980.
As our tribute...
Gayatri Chatterjee explores three films by Tapan Sinha — Jhinder Bandi, Kshudhita Pashan and Jatugriha, examining how they portray love as an impossibility. It discusses...
Jatugriha by Tapan Sinha is one of the films that handled the theme of schisms in marriage with aesthetic sensitivity, technical finesse and, most importantly, strong social relevance. Gulzar's...
Suryatapa is a story of the resilience and indomitability of a woman emerging victorious against insurmountable odds. Antara revisits this Sandhya Roy-Uttam Kumar...
Gulzar voices his “deepest regard” for Sandhya Mukherjee, the Geetasri who never needed any Padma to become the voice of romance for generations. Ratnottama Sengupta explores how Gulzar...
Bengal's matinee idol Uttam Kumar and its most popular male singer-composer Hemanta Mukherjee together created a massive repertoire of songs that are remembered till today for their melodious...
Bengal's matinee idol and most popular actor Uttam Kumar had only a brief brush with Hindi films. But even in a space of a few films, he left a mark and some evergreen melodies for us to hum.
