
Oddly, nothing in the form of a biography has been written before about Bengal's most memorable actor, Uttam Kumar, in English. Veteran film critic Swapan Mullick's 'Mahanayak Revisited' goes behind the professional life and public face of Bengal's most idolized actor to reveal little-known details of the stars unconscious power in the film industry for more than thirty years,the dazzling achievements dampened by dud disappointments, the aberrations attendant on a...

04:56 PM, Feb 22, 2013

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...

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

Uttam Kumar, who murdered her former student Priyanka Garg, spared death penalty because of lack of evidence. ...

05:39 PM, Mar 15, 2007