"It is the demise of a leading light of the Bengali film industry…There won't be another hero like him." - Satyajit Ray, ...
For Gargee RoyChowdhury, Uttam Kumar has never been just one thing. He has been a childhood crush, a romantic ideal, and later, an actor whose work became a lesson in the craft itself. At a recent ...
At 6pm Saturday evenings, all Calcuttans irrespective of whether they were from Allepey, Amritsar, Aizawl or Aurangabad would sit before their EC TVs to watch the feature film in Bangla. This was how ...
But what lay beneath the surface of this iconic figure when he shed his charismatic facade and stripped away the fluid mask ...
On September 3, 1926, a boy was born in Kolkata who went on to become the Mahanayak (superstar) of Bengali cinema. He was Uttam Kumar. But long before the fame, he was a young clerk, spending his days ...
India, Sept. 3 -- A century after his birth, Uttam Kumar remains difficult to place in a single frame. He was the romantic hero whose smile could turn an ordinary scene into a cinematic moment. He was ...
Lucknow: Not Nayak, but Mahanayak; not Uttam, but Oti Uttam — that is how many Bengalis describe the legendary Uttam Kumar, whose birth centenary began on September 3 this year and has transcended ...
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Uttam Kumar at 100: How Nayak mirrored his loneliness, fame's dark side and money fears
Where does one start about the emotion that 'Mahanayak' (The Great Actor) Uttam Kumar is for the Bengali fandom, and just cinephiles at large? The actor celebrates his centenary birthday today, and ...
'Bumba, now you will have to fight your battles alone because the man who was there by our side, like a sturdy oak tree in whose shade you would have blossomed, is gone.' IMAGE: Uttam Kumar.
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