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 ...
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, ...
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 ...