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Uttam Kumar (born Arun Kumar Chattopadhyay; 3 September 1926 – 24 July 1980), widely known as Mahanayak (lit. ' Great Hero ' ), [ 1 ] was an Indian film actor, producer, director, screenwriter, composer, and playback singer who predominantly worked in Bengali cinema . [ 2 ]
It was one of the last films of the iconic Bengali actor Uttam Kumar, who died during production. [2] A lookalike, Prabir Kumar, was brought in to stand in for Kumar for the final sections of the film and for the song O Daddy, O Mummy. [citation needed] The film starred also Moushumi Chatterjee, Sumitra Mukherjee, Ranjit Mallick and Santosh Dutta.
Chhoti Si Mulaqat (English: A Brief Interaction) is a 1967 Indian Hindi-language romantic drama film directed by Alo Sarkar starring Uttam Kumar and Vyjayanthimala. [1] [2] [3] It's a remake of 1954 Bengali film Agni Pariksha directed by Agradoot [a] which was an adaption of Asha Purna Devi's novel of the same name. [5] [6]
So popular was his version of the recitation that when in 1976, the voice of noted Bengali actor, Uttam Kumar was employed for the programme and renamed it as Durga Durgatiharini did not get favorable response from the audience and it was shifted back to the original version of Birendra Krishna Bhadra. [13]
The Hindu wrote in a article 2013 Uttam Kumar, numero uno of the deeply entrenched Bengali cinema, is a case in point, as he managed to get roles in only a few Hindi films before his untimely death at the age of 53 in 1980. One only needs to watch Shakti Samantha’s “Amanush” (made simultaneously in Bengali and Hindi) to marvel at the ...
Uttam Kumar debuted as Arun Kumar Chatterjee, a child artist, in the 1948 film Drishtidaan directed by Nitin Bose. The film was unsuccessful. The next year he appeared as a leading hero Uttam Chatterjee in the film Kamona 1949 which was also unsuccessful. In 1951 film Sahajatri he kept his name permanently as Uttam Kumar. But he gave back to ...
Pathey Holo Deri is a 1957 Bengali film directed by Agradoot. [6] [7] The film's music was composed by Robin Chatterjee.The film stars Uttam Kumar, and Suchitra Sen [8] in leading role and others artists like Shishir Batabyal, Anil Bhattacharya, Mihir Bhattacharya, Chhabi Biswas, Bharati Devi, Chandrabati Devi, Jahar Ganguli, Anup Kumar, Shyam Laha, Gopal Majumdar, Chitra Mandal, Sova Sen, and ...
Harano Sur was the first film produced by Uttam Kumar along with Ajoy Kar. Uttam decided to keep Bengali cinema to national level, so he came into film production under their banner Alochaya Production Pvt Ltd. The film was based on 1942 Oscar nominated film Random Harvest which itself based on the novel of same name written by James Hilton.