The Day Uttam Kumar Died
Bengal’s ultimate matinee idol passed away on July 24, 1980. A chapter from Sayandeb Chowdhury’s book recaps the day, and the tributes that followed
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Revisiting Satyajit Ray’s Nayak: The Hero
They say the eyes are the windows to the soul. Arindam Mukherjee’s dark glasses are a thinly veiled attempt to hide what lies beyond.
Filmmaker Srijit Mukherji Picks 40 Movies He Wants Everyone To See
My list contains some fairly unanimous classics, some contentious ones, some ordinary and possibly even some bad films. The only common thread running through them is they have entered my terrestrial screenplay at some point of time.
Top 5 Performances of Suchitra Sen
From Deep Jwele Jai to Aandhi, in each of these films Sen is a career woman, thus giving her an agency denied to most actresses of the era
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Shahjahan Regency: Srijit Mukherji on His Contemporary Take on the Iconic Novel, Chowri...
Basking in the glow of two huge back-to-back hits this year, the filmmaker talks about his interpretation of an iconic novel that has endured in the popular imagination as much for its much-loved 1968 film version starring Uttam Kumar
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Prosenjit Chatterjee’s Top 5 Memorable Films
Believed to be Bengali cinema’s one-man industry, Prosenjit Chatterjee has acted in some of the biggest commercial potboilers before breaking out to experiment with roles that have made him the go-to actor to kick-start an offbeat film
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10 Best Performances Of ‘Mahanayak’ Uttam Kumar
38 years have passed since the legend breathed his last, but for many in Bengal, time may well have stopped that night on 24 July 1980. Here’s a look at some of his most memorable moments on screen
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