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, ...
Hyderabad: In a corner of the Telangana Bengali Film Festival (TBFF), time stood still as visitors stepped into a ...
Today, Amitabh Bachchan is often hailed as the “Mahanayak” of Bollywood, but long before Big B earned that title, Indian cinema had its first superstar in Uttam Kumar. Fondly called the “Mahanayak” of ...