When the legendary Bengali superstar Uttam Kumar was launched in Hindi cinema, it was naturally a remake of a Bangla hit the 1954 film Agni Pareeksha. The Hindi version featured Uttam with ...

An important fallout of the migration of Bengali technicians and filmmakers to Bombay in the 1950s was the adaptation of a number of Bengali film classics into Hindi. Of course this was a process ...

“Uttam is Uttam. I am delighted to be part of a function to honour him. I have seen most of his Bengali films. They are wonderful. Such mooch, Uttam Saab lajabab kalakar hai. (Truly Uttam Saab is an ...

Though no one has yet cracked the formula for a successful film, with Uttam Kumar it can be said with some certainty that his choice for his debut outing was rather debatable. Raj Kapoor had offered ...