![]() ![]() ![]() It is even stranger when you realise that so many of his Bengali film classics went on to be remade in Hindi with great success. ![]() Though his legacy in Bengali cinema was secure and wouldn’t be affected by the disaster that was Kalankini Kankabati, it remains a matter of immense sorrow for admirers like me that the final memories national viewers would have of this legendary star and actor would be of the unwatchable Desh Premee.īut then it is one of those ironies of filmdom that an icon of his stature could come such a cropper in Hindi cinema. He had passed away by then - Ogo Bodhu Sundari and Kalankini Kankabati in Bengali also came out after his death. Even at the age of 14, when I watched Desh Premee, and when you could be forgiven for being unaware of the aesthetics of cinema and just about love anything, the one thing in the all-round appalling film that stuck out like a sore thumb was Uttam Kumar. It’s ironical that a film career as brilliant should have a swansong as poor. Uttam Kumar and Vyjayanthimala in 'Chhoti Si Mulaqat' Source: YouTube ![]()
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