Uttam Kumar is a popular Actor and Producer. Latest movies in which Uttam Kumar has acted are Nishithe, Jatu Griha, Bicharak, Chiriyakhana and Antony Firingee. Latest movies which Uttam Kumar has produced are Jatu Griha, Uttar Falguni. Uttam Kumar was born on September 02, 1926.
In the history of Bengali cinema, the '50s to the '70s witnessed the rise of an iconic celluloid pair, which literally revolutionized how people would talk about Bengali cinematic romance forever. If you want to give romance a face, the palette would no doubt be filled with Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen’s romantic escapades on celluloid. They used to churn out hits after hits. Here is a list of 10 Bengali films featuring Uttam-Suchitra you should not miss out on.
For every bit of this purportedly bhadrolok acts of retention, there are also spontaneous, streetwise displays of exuberant adoration. Land in Calcutta and you would see broadsheets, hoardings, shops, posters, books dangling with his face. In quickly disappearing atriums of single-screen theatres across the city, he is ubiquitous. Uttam’s smiling portrait also peeps out from sudden nooks and corners — neighbourly salons, dusty tailor-shops, bare-boned photo-studios, rusty sweetshops and grimy eateries that are either in thrall of his everlasting charm or touting the honour of his visit into their midst many moons ago. The scale of Uttam’s easy visibility across Calcutta and towns of Bengal four decades since his death makes one singular claim: that Uttam has not only refused mortality but has made a permanent home in the collective memory of Bengal.
Uttam’s appeal was built not only on an edifice of feel-good, gratifying romances but on the ability of his screen persona to conform and contradict; to understand the melancholic heft of the period while also being able to navigate it gently, with dulcet humility; and without rebellion and rancour.
“It is somewhat epiphanic that the quadragennial month of Uttam’s death falls bang in the middle of a globe-rummaging pandemic. As he rose in public reckoning in the mid-1950s, Uttam’s stardom emerged as the key figure around which the architectonics of Bengali popular cinema announced its re-organisation.”
Writing :Sriti Akter
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