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Tag Archives: Uttam Kumar
Two films, five years apart, share the same engine of diminishment, though their plotlines couldn’t be more dissimilar. Anuradha Warrier delves into what she sees as Uttam Kumar’s...
Hrad was conceptually ahead of its time — and so was Uttam Kumar, who chose to take part in it despite the pull of glamour elsewhere. Soumalya Chatterjee explores the film that fetched Uttam...
Film scholar Shoma A. Chatterji revisits Uttam Kumar’s ‘negative’ roles on his centenary, tracing how Bengal’s beloved matinee idol played villains without losing his hero’s magnetism.
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.
