That Srijit Mukherjee experimented to bring alive the matinee idol on the big screen earlier this year with Oti Uttam goes to show the enduring legacy of yesteryear Bengali legends, besides, of course ...

'Uttam Kumar transcended the conflict between being a star and an actor... he combined both and became a cultural and social icon for the Bengali race.' IMAGE: The Oti Uttam poster. Srijit Mukherji, ...

My appreciation of Uttam Kumar happened quite late in life. I never could really fathom what was so huge about this man. Gradually I have come to understand the greatness of Uttam Kumar. The last and ...

When the legendary Bengali superstar Uttam Kumar was launched in Hindi cinema, it was naturally a remake of a Bangla hit the 1954 film Agni Pareeksha. The Hindi version featured Uttam with ...

Speaking at the ‘Mahanayak Samman’ award function on the death anniversary of matinee idol Uttam Kumar, the Banerjee said, "Sob bhasai bhalo, sob gaan bhaalo , but we must make serious effort in ...

As someone born almost a decade and a half after Uttam Kumar’s death, I should have been immune to his charm. We, who are too far removed from the soft-focus romance of the black-and-white era, too ...

Lily Chakraborty receives the Lifetime Achievement Award from Debasish Kumar, KMC member-mayor-in-council and president of Uttam Kumar Memorial Cultural Society All photographs by Soumyajit Dey Uttam ...

Soumitra wore his celebrity lightly. He tried to live a decidedly regular life. No starry airs or hang-ups, no desire to flaunt any movie-star flamboyance or throw his weight around. He did not even ...

In Uttam Kumar: A Life in Cinema (2021), author Sayandeb Chowdhury begins with an anecdote about Bengali cinema’s two foremost immortals: Satyajit Ray and Uttam Kumar. The year was 1966. Ray’s film, ...