• Sayandeb Chowdhury

    ... teaches at Ambedkar University Delhi. His book on the life, cinema and afterlife of Uttam Kumar will be published soon.

“It is somewhat epiphanic that the quadragennial month of Uttam’s death falls bang in the middle of a globe-rummaging pandemic. As he rose in public reckoning in the mid-1950s, Uttam’s stardom emerged as the key figure around which the architectonics of Bengali popular cinema announced its re-organisation.”