The iconic Prosenjit Chatterjee aka Bumba Da gets candid in an exclusive chat with Filmfare's Editor-In-Chief Jitesh Pillai ...

Actor Prosenjit Chatterjee spoke exclusively with Filmfare about his illustrious career in Bengali cinema, the need to adapt and keep up with newer technologies invo ...

Sharmila Tagore talks about meeting American auteur Wes Anderson at 78th Cannes Film Festival where her film Aranyer Din ...

Soumitra Chatterjee and his World is divided ... s complex relationship to Bengali cinema’s reigning heartthrob, Uttam Kumar. While Chatterjee was a self-proclaimed Uttam Kumar fan, there ...

A few weeks before the release of Apur Sansar (The World of Apu, 1959), directed by Satyajit Ray, Charlie Chaplin’s Limelight was re-released in Calcutta (now Kolkata). A large hoarding in the city ...

Many comparisons are made between Soumitra and Uttam Kumar. The suave Uttam Kumar was the brightest star in popular Bengali cinema, always a star, the Mahanayak. Soumitra, on the other hand ...

Constantly compared with charismatic Uttam Kumar, Ray himself had defined his Nayak as “intuitive” and his Apu as “cerebral”. But Soumitra refuted this, “No actor can be one or the other.” ...

Soumitra Chatterjee. The name itself evokes ... focus of the book is the relationship between Bengali film superstars Uttam Kumar and Chatterjee and the close bond the two developed that remained ...

It is, indeed, a film to remember. In one essay Ray—whose preferred actor was Soumitra Chatterjee—explained the importance of casting Uttam Kumar. He pointed to a moment where the star and the ...

Since Soumitra Chatterjee’s passing, several biographies have been written about him, but Sanghamitra Chakraborty’s work is possibly the first truly comprehensive account. She explores the ...

“Can you tell me a little about the relationship between Uttam and Soumitra?” I ask. She leans forward and says, “Bolbo na (I am not telling you)!” As we chat, Madhabi drops her defence gradually. And ...