100 YEARS OF INDIAN CINEMA.... UTTAM KUMAR by Pratim Das

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100 YEARS OF INDIAN CINEMA.... UTTAM KUMAR....WATERCOLOUR...12 INCH*12 INCH...1995...Uttam Kumar Chatterjee (3 September 1926 – 24 July 1980) is an Indian film actor in Bengali Cinema. Born Arun Kumar Chatterjee in 1926 at Ahiritola, North Calcutta he is widely known as Uttam Kumar and Mahanayak. He remains as much of a cultural icon. As actor, director, producer, singer and music director, his contribution earned him critical adulation. Considered as one of the most popular film stars in the history of cinema, Kumar managed to have a following, that mainly concentrated in the regions of Bengal and Bangladesh. In his lifetime, he was a recipient of many awards, including National Film Award for Best Actor. Even after his death, his tradition went on as long as the next century. He is often regarded as, by many critics, the 'Actor' who changed the notion of films. In his honour, a Metro Station was renamed in Kolkata. Uttam Kumar was born in Kolkata in the home of his maternal uncle at Ahiritola, while his ancestral house is on Girish Mukherjee Road, Bhowanipore, Kolkata. After his schooling in South Suburban School (Main), he went for higher studies in Goenka College of Commerce and Business Administration, a college affiliated to the University of Calcutta. He could not, however, complete his studies and started working at the Kolkata Port trust, then known as Calcutta Port Trust, as a clerk. During this period, he acted in amateur theatre groups. His prodigious joint family had its own theatre group, the Suhrid Samaj, which staged many amateur shows. Uttam Kumar was the eldest of three sons (Arun, Barun and Tarun) of Satkari Chatterjee and Chapala Debi. The youngest, whose screen name was Tarun Kumar, acted in several Bengali films and grew to become an actor of considerable repute, in screen and on stage. There are several films in which Uttam Kumar and Tarun Kumar starred together like Saptapadi, Sonar Harin, Maya Mriga, Sesh Anka, Deya Neya, Jeeban-Mrityu,