New Delhi: When Bengals ace of hearts, the one and only Uttam Kumar breathed his last on July 24, 1980, he unleashed the kind of public hysteria unprecedented in the annals of Bengals movie history. Millions of Uttam fans, suddenly orphaned, kept asking just one question, Is it true?
To people outside Bengal (specially new age fans of dazzlers like Prosenjit, Jeet and the new red hot man Dev), it may be difficult to comprehend in full measure the kind of magic, power and hold Uttam had over generations.
Born on September 3, 1928, he evolved and embellished into his persona the charisma of Dilip Kumar with drawing power of Amitabh Bachchan. He with Suchitra Sen, redefined the whole equation of screen romance. It was indeed fitting that as the Numero Unos lifeless body was laid down in his Girish Mukherjee Road house that fateful day, Suchitra, in a fantastic cinematic re-play, garlanded him " one last time.
An ordinary clerk in the Calcutta Port Commission, Uttams early efforts on screen ran into such heavy weather that he seriously considered packing-up and returning to his nine-to-five routine. Mercifully, providence had other plans. ...
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10:27 AM, Sep 03, 2012
New Delhi: When Bengals ace of hearts, the one and only Uttam Kumar breathed his last on July 24, 1980, he unleashed the kind of public hysteria unprecedented in the annals of Bengals movie history. Millions of Uttam fans, suddenly orphaned, kept asking just one question, Is it true? To people outside Bengal (specially new age fans of dazzlers like Prosenjit, Jeet and the new red hot man Dev), it...
03:49 PM, Jul 24, 2012
New Delhi: When Bengals ace of hearts, the one and only Uttam Kumar breathed his last on July 24, 1980, he unleashed the kind of public hysteria unprecedented in the annals of Bengals movie history. Millions of Uttam fans, suddenly orphaned, kept asking just one question, Is it true? To people outside Bengal (specially new age fans of dazzlers like Prosenjit, Jeet and the new red hot man Dev), it...
06:50 PM, Jul 15, 2012
