Uttam Kumar : A Life in Cinema - Sayandeb Chowdhury

Uttam Kumar

A Life in Cinema

By: Sayandeb Chowdhury

Hardcover | 30 January 2021

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âThere is none like Uttam and there will be no one to ever replace him. He was and he is unparalleled in Bengali, even Indian cinema.ââ"Satyajit Ray, Oscar-winning Indian film-maker

Actor and screen icon Uttam Kumar (1926â"1980) is a talismanic figure in Bengali public life. Breaking away from established codes of onscreen performance, he came to anchor an entire industry and led the efforts to reimagine popular cinema in mid-20th-century Bengal. But there is pitifully less knowledge about Uttam Kumar in the learned circlesâ"be it about his range of style and performance; the attractions and problems of his cinema; his roles as a producer and patriarch of the industry; or his persona, stardom and legacy.

The first definitive cultural and critical biography of this larger-than-life figure engages meaningfully with his life and cinema, revealing the man, hero and actor from various, often competing, vantages. The conceptual aim is to locate a star figure within a larger historical and cultural context, and to enquire into how a towering image was mobilised for an ever-greater, wholesome, popular and even, at times, radical and progressive entertainment. A complimentary m©tier of this work is to explore why and how this star persona would go on to reconstitute the bhadrolok Bengali visual and cultural world in the post-Partition period.

But above all, this is the story of a clerk who became an actor, an actor who became a star, a star who became an icon and an icon who became a legend.

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