Uttam Kumar

Uttam Kumar

Born: September 3, 1926
Died: July 24, 1980
in Kolkata, India
Uttam Kumar (born Arun Kumar Chatterjee) was an Indian film actor who predominantly worked in Bengali cinema.Kumar is widely regarded as one of the greatest actors in the history of Bengali cinema.

Movies for Uttam Kumar...

Oti Uttam
Title: Oti Uttam
Character: Himself (Archival Footage)
Released: March 22, 2024
Type: Movie
The film narrates the story of a PhD scholar, who is pursuing his research on Uttam Kumar. After being rejected by the girl he likes romantically, he decides to bring the spirit of the legendary actor back with the help of his grandson.
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Surjo Sakhi
Title: Surjo Sakhi
Released: May 22, 1981
Type: Movie
A budding singer's marriage with his childhood sweetheart is in shambles after his ex-girlfriend from college comes back in his life.
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Kalankini Kankabati
Title: Kalankini Kankabati
Released: April 24, 1981
Type: Movie
Despite being married, king Rajshekhar Ray falls in love with sexy dancer Aparna, who loves Raghubir. However, things take a turn when he kills Raghubir.
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Ogo Bodhu Shundori
Title: Ogo Bodhu Shundori
Character: Prof. Gagan Sen
Released: March 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Gagan (Uttam Kumar) did not like to socialise while his wife Chitra (Sumitra Mukherjee) loved attending parties. One day Chitra's friend Lola invited her to a party. In the meanwhile the Kolkata Book Fair took off and Gagan wanted to go. Savitri (Moushumi Chatterjee) lived with her uncle from an early age. One day her uncle sold her for some money from where Savitri escaped and took shelter in Gagan's house. When Gagan's wife saw Savitri in Gagan's reading room, she went to her grandfather's house. Gagan and Abalakanta (Santosh Dutta) helped Savitri learn etiquette and the ways of genteel society.
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Darpa Churna
Title: Darpa Churna
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
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Dui Prithibi
Title: Dui Prithibi
Character: Mrinal Dutta
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
A middle-class family living a decent life suddenly come across an unexpected luxury that costs them an unwanted change in their life.
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Sunayani
Title: Sunayani
Released: July 6, 1979
Type: Movie
Sunayani, a lovely girl with a visual impairment, is asked to serve as a caretaker for Arun, a rich young man, who has been dealing with depression. Later, Arun recovers and soon proposes marriage to Sunayani.
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Debdas
Title: Debdas
Character: Chunnilal
Released: March 23, 1979
Type: Movie
The scion of a wealthy landowner family turns to alcohol and self-pity and slowly self-destructs after class differences force him to break off his relationship with his childhood sweetheart.
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Brojobuli
Title: Brojobuli
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
The story is as Brajaraj Karforma is a veteran office clerk, who usually came to office very late and likes to chat with every one. The main subject of his stories is his fictional heroic activities.
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Bandie
Title: Bandie
Character: BholaB. Singh / Yuvraj Uday B. Singh
Released: March 10, 1978
Type: Movie
Maharaj Brajbhan lives a wealthy lifestyle in Bharatpur, India along with his wife, Badi Rani, but have been unable to conceive for Bharatpur, and have no choice but to leave it's reigns with Brajban's widowed cousin, Vikram, and his son, Kanchan. When Vikram finds out that Badi Rani is pregnant, he plots to first sully her character by having her abducted, then shunned by the Maharaj, and then decides to have her killed. But her killer has a change of heart and lets her live. She gives birth to a son, names him Bhola, and starts living a simple lifestyle in a Mandir with the help of it's Poojary. Years later Vikram finds out she is alive and kills her, as well the Poojary and the Poojary's son. Bhola witnesses this, manages to escape, starts to live with a poor widow, grows up uneducated, and makes a living through crime.
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Kitaab
Title: Kitaab
Character: Nikhil Gupta
Released: December 31, 1977
Type: Movie
Director Sampooran Singh Gulzar’s insightful comic drama aims to capture the unique perspective of childhood.
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Anand Ashram
Title: Anand Ashram
Character: Dr. Deepak
Released: October 14, 1977
Type: Movie
A romantic family drama spanning three generations.
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Sabyasachi
Title: Sabyasachi
Character: Sabyasachi
Released: January 21, 1977
Type: Movie
The film portrays a charismatic and passionate freedom fighter 'Sabyasachi', taken from the novel 'Pather Dabi' by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, in his repeated struggle against the full might of the colonial British rule.
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Nidhiram Sardar
Title: Nidhiram Sardar
Character: Ramprasad Sinha
Released: September 24, 1976
Type: Movie
Suddenly a thief named "Nidhiram Sardar" totally changed the life of Kolkata police. He theft from the dishonest businessman and distributed them to the poor. Mr. Gangaram an importer-exporter also faced the same at Hotel Love Bird. The owner of the hotel Sitesh Pyne a whimsical, high profile criminal become very anxious about the incident. On the other side Jamini, a young, smart girl is the only earning member of a middle class family suddenly faces some problem. Some unknown antisocial follows her regularly. In such a situation, she asks for help from Ram Prasad Singha. Ram Prasad who is a reputed singer as well as a bold man with his own values tries to reveal the problem. He puts his every effort and solves the case with the help of his relative Mallik and old friend Sanjay.
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Sei Chokh
Title: Sei Chokh
Character: Sir Nabakrishna
Released: July 30, 1976
Type: Movie
When Nabakrishna's mother died, he was just a boy. She left him enough fortune to live a well-off life. But, can money fulfil everything that one can desire in their life?
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Hotel Snow Fox
Title: Hotel Snow Fox
Character: K. K. (Bar Singer)
Released: April 14, 1976
Type: Movie
Mithu Mukherjee belonged to a poor family. Her father was suffering from a chronic disease. They didn't have enough money to buy his medicines. Her father (Asit Baran)'s friend had cheated him due to which they had to mortgage even their house to him. Mithu Mukherjee decided to help her family and came out of her house in search ofa job. At last she got a job in a company which however stopped its business within a few months' time. She then joined a hotel where she met Uttam Kumar. Uttam Kumar was a bar singer there. He was a singer in disguise and he used to help distressed women who were exploited by the so-called upper class rich people. Mithu Mukherjee (Khuku) was helped by Uttam Kumar who helped her family get her ancestral house back. At last Uttam Kumar gave all the secret details of those people to the police and took his leave.
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Bagh Bondi Khela
Title: Bagh Bondi Khela
Character: Bhabesh Banerjee
Released: December 19, 1975
Type: Movie
Rajesh Banerjee came to Ranipur to visit his father Vabesh Banerjee. Vabesh Banerjee is a greedy businessman and a loose character. Vabesh wants to stand for election and to reduce his declarable wealth he gifts his money to his son. Vabesh's wife reveals the whole plot to Rajesh and Rajesh cannot accept his ways. The police is brought in and Vabesh commits suicide unrepentant till the end
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Priyo Bandhabi
Title: Priyo Bandhabi
Character: Jawhar
Released: October 3, 1975
Type: Movie
A woman runs away from her husband and is helped out by a homeless man.
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Sanyasi Raja
Title: Sanyasi Raja
Character: Zamindar Surya Kishore Chowdhury
Released: June 19, 1975
Type: Movie
Zamindar Surya Kishore Chowdhury is a kind-hearted man who loves playing chess and is a fantastic singer. While he cares for his estate and the people, he is careless towards his wife, Indu's feelings. Dr. Bijoy Chakrabarty, who was helped by the zamindar during his student days, lives in his palace and one day, he successfully executes his plot to murder the zamindar while coercing Indu to keep quiet. However, fate takes a different turn and in the cremation grounds, a monk saves the life of the zamindar, who returns to his estate no more as an aristocratic noble but as a monk at heart.
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Agnishwar
Title: Agnishwar
Character: Agnishwar Mukherjee
Released: March 21, 1975
Type: Movie
A patriotic doctor lends moral backbone to the broken society of Bengal.
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Amanush
Title: Amanush
Character: Madhusudan Roy Chaudhary 'Madhu'
Released: March 21, 1975
Type: Movie
Madhusudan Chaudhary lives in a small fishing village in West Bengal, India, along with his wealthy but aging paternal uncle, who trusts him and lets him handle their estate and business. Madhusudan is in love with Dr. Anand's sister, Rekha, and everyone expects them to get married soon. Madhusudan's vices are drinking and having a good time, and this is what is held against him when a woman named Champa confides in Rekha that he had been intimate with her and as a result got her pregnant. Rekha confronts Madhusudan, but he denies everything, however, Rekha disbelieves him. Angry, he goes in search of Champa, only to find out that she is not to be found anywhere in the village.
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Nagar Darpane
Title: Nagar Darpane
Released: January 3, 1975
Type: Movie
Anupam, a writer, loves his family dearly and besides looking after his mother, he also funds his brothers' education. However, he loses his sanity when his perfect life falls apart.
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Ami Se O Sakha
Title: Ami Se O Sakha
Released: January 3, 1975
Type: Movie
Chandrani, Sudhir and Prashanta are good friends. Soon, Chandrani falls in love with Sudhir. But due to a troubled childhood, Sudhir rejects marriage and convinces her to marry Prashanta instead.
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Bandhu
Title: Bandhu
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
An evergreen Bengali movie starring Uttam Kumar and Mala Sinha.
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Rodon Bhara Basanta
Title: Rodon Bhara Basanta
Released: April 5, 1974
Type: Movie
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Jadu Bansha
Title: Jadu Bansha
Released: April 1, 1974
Type: Movie
A political film reflecting the turbulent times of the '60s and '70s.
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Jadi Jantem
Title: Jadi Jantem
Character: Barrister P. K. Basu
Released: February 28, 1974
Type: Movie
Jadi Jantem (English: If I Knew) is a 1974 Indian Bengali-language drama thriller film directed by Tarun Majumdar as Yatrik. This movie was released under the banner of Chitrajug. Uttam Kumar played the role of main protagonist of the movie, Mr. P. K. Basu, Bar-at-law. This movie was based on the thriller novel Nagchampa of Narayan Sanyal.
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Alor Thikana
Title: Alor Thikana
Released: February 15, 1974
Type: Movie
The 1974 film.
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Mouchak
Title: Mouchak
Character: Nitesh Roy
Released: January 10, 1974
Type: Movie
A newly appointed good-looking officer catches the eyes of the fathers of would-be-brides. But he has some other plans.
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Roudra Chhaya
Title: Roudra Chhaya
Released: July 20, 1973
Type: Movie
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Bonpalashir Padabali
Title: Bonpalashir Padabali
Released: January 20, 1973
Type: Movie
Tensions between two brothers arise when one of their daughters marries a government employee. Meanwhile, when Udas' first wife dies and his childhood sweetheart rejects him, he becomes an alcoholic, characterless bohemian kind of person. One day after a quarrel, When he hears a baseless and incorrect news that Padma was having an affair with the doctor, he comes to murder the doctor with a knife. In the darkness, drunken Udas killed his old mate Padma. As a result, he was convicted and sentenced to death.
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Kaya Hiner Kahini
Title: Kaya Hiner Kahini
Released: January 19, 1973
Type: Movie
Prabir, a rich and selfish man who does not realise the value of love and relationships, ruins the life of Mallika, a beautiful woman who loves him.
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The Accepted Defeat
Title: The Accepted Defeat
Character: Binod Sen
Released: December 15, 1972
Type: Movie
The story revolves around Pratima who pledges to destroy the relationship between Neera and Binu, as she loves Binu.
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Mem Saheb
Title: Mem Saheb
Character: Amitabh
Released: October 17, 1972
Type: Movie
Kajal, a dark-skinned woman, falls in love with Amit, an unemployed journalist. She urges him to focus on his career and provides unconditional support but destiny has other plans for the couple.
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Chinna Patra
Title: Chinna Patra
Released: October 13, 1972
Type: Movie
Starring Uttam Kumar in a double role. One is the unruly, rich and spoilt brat who is killed by his enemies, while the other, a good guy, reaches the dead man's house and is compelled to take his place
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Stree
Title: Stree
Character: Madhab Datta
Released: July 11, 1972
Type: Movie
During the liberation of India, an old-fashioned man must examine his priorities.
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Andha Atit
Title: Andha Atit
Released: July 7, 1972
Type: Movie
Rakhal Das, a postal worker, is accused of murder and theft and imprisoned. However, his son takes it upon himself to prove his innocence and find the real culprit behind the controversy.
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Dhanyee Meye
Title: Dhanyee Meye
Character: kali dutta
Released: May 10, 1971
Type: Movie
A romantic comedy with football at its center.
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Jay Jayanti
Title: Jay Jayanti
Character: Jayanta
Released: March 12, 1971
Type: Movie
Jayanti takes up a job of a governess in the Roy family. Sanjoy Roy, the uncle of the five kids, is an arrogant man. Soon, Jayanti wins the kids' hearts and Sanjoy's respect.
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Nabarag
Title: Nabarag
Character: Bipul Bagchi
Released: February 4, 1971
Type: Movie
Reena was a very honest/beautiful and tomboy type village girl who lived with her grandfather in East Bengal. She developed a very close relationship with her simple style of living. But Partition of India creates problems for them. Reena had to came to Kolkata in her maternal uncles home . But here she faced a totally different scenario. The lifestyles were too different. She was not able to adjust properly. In a social gathering a local Entrepreneur Mr. Bagchi observed it but he began to like Reena. After a while they got married together. Then they were blessed with a child . But Reena was not all comfortable with her child’s value system and psychology. So a complication was born between them. This is a story of different perspectives who forced to live life together bonded in a relationship.
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Ekhane Pinjar
Title: Ekhane Pinjar
Character: Amal Basu
Released: January 22, 1971
Type: Movie
Amal Basu, who decides to visit his hometown, meets Lila on the train. When he goes to his friend Nabendu's home, he learns that Lila is his sister and a smuggler.
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Chhadmabeshi
Title: Chhadmabeshi
Character: Abanish alias Gourhari
Released: January 15, 1971
Type: Movie
A romantic comedy, where a newlywed couple and their friend pulls a prank on the bride's unsuspecting elder brother and his wife. The groom poses as the driver for the family and the friend poses as the groom. What ensues is an all-time classic of Bengali Cinema.
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Jiban Jigyasa
Title: Jiban Jigyasa
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
Indra and Radha's love is short-lived when he decides to go abroad. Soon enough, Radha's life takes an ugly turn when her child with Indra, born out of wedlock, dies and she is accused of murder.
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Alo Amar Alo
Title: Alo Amar Alo
Character: Nirendra Mitra
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
A rich industrialist and womanizer, Nirendra, has a poor woman, Atashi, kidnapped. In the struggle, she loses her memory. Atashi recovers in Nirendra's care and the two begin to fall in love.
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Bilambita Loy
Title: Bilambita Loy
Released: December 1, 1970
Type: Movie
A promising artist and a singer fall in love in college and get married against their families' wishes. The singer soon begins performing to support her husband and becomes nationally renowned. On the other hand, the artist fails to earn a livelihood and becomes alcoholic.
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Manjari Opera
Title: Manjari Opera
Released: November 27, 1970
Type: Movie
Bollywood 1970
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Nishi Padma
Title: Nishi Padma
Character: Ananga
Released: October 23, 1970
Type: Movie
'Nishi Padma' is a 1970 Bengali drama film written and directed by Aravinda Mukherjee, based on a short story 'Hinger Kochuri' by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay, and starring Uttam Kumar and Sabitri Chatterjee as leads. This film was remade in the Hindi as 'Amar Prem' (1972), directed by Shakti Samanta.
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Kalankita Nayak
Title: Kalankita Nayak
Character: Indrajit Mukhopadhyay
Released: May 15, 1970
Type: Movie
A renowned social worker of the old Bengali culture has been conspired against by the landlord of the village to create criticism against him before the public to hide his crimes.
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Princess
Title: Princess
Released: April 5, 1970
Type: Movie
Manju's mother keeps her very strictly disciplined. What happens when she falls in love with Nirmal?
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Aparichita
Title: Aparichita
Released: December 19, 1969
Type: Movie
‘Aparichito’ is a multi-starrer featuring Uttam Kumar, Utpal Dutt, Sandhya Roy, Aparna Sen and Soumitra Chatterjee. The film was inspired by ‘The Idiot’ by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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Aparachita
Title: Aparachita
Character: Ranjan
Released: December 5, 1969
Type: Movie
Bengali adaptation of Dostoevsky's The Idiot.
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Sabarmati
Title: Sabarmati
Released: August 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Yashomati runs away from home in search of freedom and travels to Ahmedabad, Gujarat. When her bags get stolen, Shankar helps her. However, when he takes her home to her parents, she feels betrayed.
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Mon Niye
Title: Mon Niye
Released: February 14, 1969
Type: Movie
Suparna is distraught on seeing her sister getting close to her husband, Amitabha. Things take a turn for the worse when Amitabha's sister dies and the suspicion falls on Suparna.
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Shuk Sari
Title: Shuk Sari
Character: Noni
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Noni, a farmer's son, has little interest in his duties and responsibilities on the farm. Instead, he is more interested in the arts, particularly playing the flute, as well as the local stage productions organized by a local group.
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Sudden Clouds
Title: Sudden Clouds
Character: Narayan Chaudhary
Released: December 11, 1968
Type: Movie
While on vacation, art teacher Seema Rai meets a charming stranger called Narayan Chaudhary. The pair strike up a friendship. Returning home, she finds her apartment ransacked and is informed that her wayward uncle has been murdered. She barely knew the uncle, but she learns that he was involved in diamond smuggling. The other smugglers, whom he once double-crossed, begin to pursue Seema, believing she is hiding their share of a fortune in diamonds. Narayan comes to town, and Seema finds solace in his companionship. But can he be trusted or does he have ulterior motives?
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Chowringhee
Title: Chowringhee
Character: Sata Bose
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Sata Bose, the receptionist of hotel Shahjahan and other crew members work hard to make the hotel first choice of the upper class for socializing in the city, just got the taste of freedom from British rule. The movie revolves around different characters - hotel employees to page 3 personalities dealing different human emotions. Although Sata Bose (played by Uttam Kumar) is the central character of the film, he is not the protagonist in many ways, rather the movie can be described as "hyperlink movie" made long ago than the term is coined.
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News About the Heroine
Title: News About the Heroine
Character: Alok
Released: December 31, 1967
Type: Movie
A film actress misses her train on her way to a shoot and is stranded in the middle of nowhere. She takes up shelter with the local Station Master and soon bonds with the place and its people.
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The Zoo
Title: The Zoo
Character: Byomkesh Bakshi
Released: November 18, 1967
Type: Movie
When Byomkesh Bakshi's new client, Dr. Nishanath Sen, is murdered at Golap Colony, he decides to probe into the case with the help of his close aide, Ajit.
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Grihadaha
Title: Grihadaha
Character: Mahim
Released: May 5, 1967
Type: Movie
Based on the novel "Grihadaha" written by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay.
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Jiban Mrityu
Title: Jiban Mrityu
Released: April 13, 1967
Type: Movie
This story is as Ashoke Mukherjee is a well educated, honest, sincere and hardworking person who lives with his mother. Gopa, his lover lives in his neighborhood. Ashoke appointed as a cashier in a bank. But after some day he meets with police and got arrested. After returning from jail he understand that it was a conspiracy. But this whole incident actually demolished his all dreams. His mother was dead and he do not trace Gopa. Suddenly he helped a person and for his honesty and sincerity Ashoke appointed to look after his business. Gradually he became the owner of the business and started to take revenge against those culprits for whom he had lost some valuable time of his life. He takes a different look. Became a Sardarji and one day he meets with Gopa. Ashoke gives them a serious blow and takes his revenge. At last the truth prevails.
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Antony Firingee
Title: Antony Firingee
Character: Antony Firingee
Released: January 6, 1967
Type: Movie
Antony Firingee was a Portuguese-Indian who became a famous Bengali poet musician and fell in love with Shakila. She agreed to marry him after revealing her tragic history. But his fame was not enough to overcome their ostracisation and tragedy struck again.
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Chhoti Si Mulaqat
Title: Chhoti Si Mulaqat
Character: Ashok
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Shanker Choudhury's (Tarun Bose) mother (Pratima Devi), at the pleas of her dying husband, marries off his (Shanker's) daughter to a youth. Both the children are under-age and do not know nor understand that they have been married.
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Kal Tumi Aleya
Title: Kal Tumi Aleya
Character: Dhirapada Chakraborty
Released: December 30, 1966
Type: Movie
Kal Tumi Aleya’ is the story of rise of Dhirapada Chakroborty from his humble background to the post of general supervisor in Mr. Himanshu Mitra’s company. It’s his journey which shows his various relations with his neighbor whom he calls Sona boudi, Charu di who helps him get this job, Labanya Sarkar, the lady doctor of the company and Amit, Charu’s nephew. The film shows how he faces and handles different circumstances of life and business. It’s the story of Dhirpada’s journey in this delusionary world.
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The Hero
Title: The Hero
Character: Arindam Mukherjee
Released: May 6, 1966
Type: Movie
Arindam, a matinee idol, is going by train to collect an acting award. On the train, he is confronted by Aditi, a journalist who somewhat unwillingly starts to take his interview. Arindam, won over by Aditi's naivete, starts to disclose his past, his fears and his secrets.
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Shudhu Ekti Bachhar
Title: Shudhu Ekti Bachhar
Released: April 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Shudhu Ekti Bachhar is a romantic comedy that is based on a comical situation which finds the female protagonist having to marry a complete stranger according to her father's will. The stranger she is to be married is a funny boy whom she is at cross ends with. The story goes on with this baseline, that they agree to stay married for a year and the comedy rolls on there forth. There are many quarrels, misunderstandings and childlike fights, which all add to the comical content of the movie. All characters add life to the story with hilarious punch-lines and comical episodes. And in the end the two main leads falling in love with each other and living happily ever after.
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Rajdrohi
Title: Rajdrohi
Released: January 7, 1966
Type: Movie
The 1966 Indian Bengali film.
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Shankhabela
Title: Shankhabela
Character: Sunil Ganguly
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Tripti's ill son has been admitted to the hospital. A teacher by profession, she visits her son every day after school. One day on her way, she comes across her estranged husband, Sunil Ganguly.
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Rajkanya
Title: Rajkanya
Released: April 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Darpa, a cunning man, asks Rajkumari to pretend to be Princess Rajkanya Chandralekha so that he can keep all her riches for himself. However, when she realises the truth, she ensures all his plans fail.
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Thana Theke Aschi
Title: Thana Theke Aschi
Character: Tinkari Haldar
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Sub-Inspector Tinkari Haldar comes to the house of the Industrialist Chandra Madhab Sen to inquire about a Suicide and Mystery starts to Unfold.
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Wax Light
Title: Wax Light
Character: Dr. Surajit Sen
Released: October 2, 1964
Type: Movie
Deepa, a schizophrenic patient, loses her normalcy due to a mishap that occurred in her personal life. Dr. Surajit Sen takes this case as a challenge to prove that an injured mind needs more care and a better understanding than any medicine on therapy. The film portrays how the doctor gets intimate with his patient and slowly gets into the detail of her crisis and enables her to lead a normal life.
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Lal Pathar
Title: Lal Pathar
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
A 1964 Bengali drama directed by Sushil Majumdar.
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A Burnt House
Title: A Burnt House
Character: Satadal
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Madhuri cannot bear a child yet her husband Shatadal is fond of children. They decide to part ways but years later when they meet in a railway station they realize their fondness for each other hasn't died.
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Surya Sikha
Title: Surya Sikha
Character: Dipta Roy
Released: October 3, 1963
Type: Movie
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Uttarayan
Title: Uttarayan
Released: August 16, 1963
Type: Movie
Pranbir goes to war where he meets his doppelganger, Rateshwar, who eventually dies in combat. Pranbir decides to visit Rateshwar's family to inform them about his death but the family mistake him for Rateshwar.
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Nishithe
Title: Nishithe
Released: July 18, 1963
Type: Movie
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Bhrantibilas
Title: Bhrantibilas
Released: March 5, 1963
Type: Movie
Bhrantibilas is a 1963 Bengali film based on the 1869 play Bhranti Bilas by Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, which is itself based on William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors. Although the original play was set in an unspecified, but distant past, the film relocates the story to modern day India. The film tells the story of a Bengali merchant from Kolkata and his servant who visit a small town for a business appointment, but, whilst there, are mistaken for a pair of locals, leading to much confusion.
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Deya Neya
Title: Deya Neya
Character: Prasanta Roy
Released: March 1, 1963
Type: Movie
The son of a wealthy industrialist aspires to be a singer against the wishes of his father.
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The Last Act
Title: The Last Act
Character: Sudhangshu Gupta
Released: January 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Widower Sudhangsu is going to be married with Soma, daughter of Sir Haraprasad. Sudhangsu declares that his first wife Kalpana committed suicide on a railway track in Burma, stating that she was mentally challenged. At the time of the marriage rituals a local advocate, Suren Banerjee, comes with a lady who claims that she herself is Kalpana and that Sudhangshu is committing bigamy. Sudhangsu strongly denies and claims that she is an imposter. In the meantime a mysterious person name Samadder invaded Sudhangsu's house and stole some ornaments of the deceased Kalpana.
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Bipasha
Title: Bipasha
Character: Dibyendu
Released: June 26, 1962
Type: Movie
Bipasha and Dibyendu are in love, and the two decide to marry. However, on their wedding night upon receiving a letter, Dibyendu leaves Bipasha before the ceremony to locate his birth parents.
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Saptapadi
Title: Saptapadi
Released: October 20, 1961
Type: Movie
During WWII an army doctor is brought a drunken Anglo-Indian woman, whom he'd once loved, for treatment.
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Jhinder Bondi
Title: Jhinder Bondi
Character: King
Released: March 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Gauri Shankar Roy looks much like the king of Jhind. When the actual king, Shakar Singh, goes missing, a person from the kingdom approaches Gauri to pretend to be the king.
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Saharer Itikatha
Title: Saharer Itikatha
Character: Nikhilesh
Released: September 23, 1960
Type: Movie
When a village girl is rejected by a modern suitor, a zamindar named Nikhilesh comes to her rescue and transforms her. However, with time, the two end up falling in love with each other. Will they be able to unite against their original plan?
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Suno Baranari
Title: Suno Baranari
Character: Himanshu
Released: August 5, 1960
Type: Movie
Himangshu is a villageman who apart from practicing homeopathy helps the local people with their odds and ends. One day he gets a call from a rich man to escort his daughter Juthika to Patna. At first the rich and spoilt lady takes much disliking for the plain and simple young man but after having seen him from close quarters starts liking him. Soon her marriage is fixed to a bigshot. She confesses her feelings to Himangshu however he declines her love as he had a similar love failure in the past and did not want a broken heart again. He decides to leave the place and go away. Juthika breaks her engagement, leaves her family behind and chooses to come along with Himangshu, proving all his apprehensions wrong.
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Sakher Chor
Title: Sakher Chor
Character: Indranath Choudhury
Released: May 6, 1960
Type: Movie
Indra catches a thief Kaanta in the night and tricks him into believing he's a famous thief himself who has made away with large sums of money in high-profile heists and thefts. Later, Indra enters a bet with his friends who bait him into pulling off a theft and he seeks Kaanta's help.
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The Return of Little Master
Title: The Return of Little Master
Character: Raicharan
Released: April 28, 1960
Type: Movie
The plot revolves with Raicharan's tragic life. He is the obedient servant of local zamindar and takes care of zamindar's son whom he addresses as Khokababu. One day the little son dies in an accident in river flood and he is blamed for the same. In a delusional state, Raicharan starts believing his own infant to be his much loved khokababu and brought him up only to return him to his master.
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Kuhak
Title: Kuhak
Character: Sunando
Released: March 31, 1960
Type: Movie
This film portrays a greedy thief's struggle to run blindly after riches.
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Raja-Saja
Title: Raja-Saja
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Trouble ensues when an eccentric but simple-minded villager discovers he is the only living heir of a royal estate.
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Maya Mriga
Title: Maya Mriga
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
A woman feels that her worst fears may come true when she receives a letter from her sister after 22 years.
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Haath Badhalei Bandhu
Title: Haath Badhalei Bandhu
Character: Suresh
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Running away from an early marriage Suresh elopes with his coy girlfriend Niru and stays away from his uncle Jagannath and lives in a rented house adding to it is a lot of chaos.
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Wonder World
Title: Wonder World
Released: December 30, 1959
Type: Movie
Arjun is a very lonely person. He doesn't know what life is. Every day for him is a struggle. So he becomes a criminal. Jail is a safe custody for him because food is always available in jail. So he tries to return to the place, but all his efforts gone in vain, then he travels to a place and meets a father. He is the principal of a missionary residential school. In that place Arjun meets Miss Chaterjee, a teacher. At first she doesn't like him, but shortly she started to realise Arjun's quality. Arjun is an also a very good singer, but again for his bad reputation police catches him and send him to the jail. In court some students actually support him and thus all the misunderstanding solved and the truth prevails.
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Gali Theke Rajpath
Title: Gali Theke Rajpath
Character: Raja
Released: July 17, 1959
Type: Movie
Raja was a professional thief who went to jail for a crime. His very close assistant Bhola waited for him and when Raja came back from jail, they started to plan for a bigger one. One day a family came to their locality. Within few days, Raja and Bhola became closer to that family. Mala was the only female earning member and she worked in theatre. Raja did not disclose his real identity and tried hard to impress her a lot. In the meantime, a tout Gobordhan nagged Mala a lot to join films. Raja and Bhloda gave him a good punishment and saved Mala in several situations. Later Raja tried to cheat a businessperson, but an unavoidable situation changed his life. At last, Mala came to know everything about Raja and accepted him as her partner. Raja also decided to change his life and put his best effort to become a good man. He meets Mala and asks her to forgive Raja. Raja once again regains Mala's love and the film ends on a happy note.
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Pushpadhanu
Title: Pushpadhanu
Released: June 25, 1959
Type: Movie
The movie Pushpadhanu is based on human relations and sentiments.
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Chaowa Pawa
Title: Chaowa Pawa
Released: February 27, 1959
Type: Movie
Rajat, a young man, meets Manju, a rich girl whose father is looking for her. Though Rajat initially slyly tells her father her whereabouts, he lands up falling in love with her.
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Hinglaj, the Desert Shrine
Title: Hinglaj, the Desert Shrine
Character: Thirumal
Released: February 12, 1959
Type: Movie
While on their way to Hinglaj, Maharaj and his companions meet Kunti, who was raped by dacoits, and Thirumal, whom she left her family for. Together, they set out to seek the blessings of God.
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The Judge
Title: The Judge
Character: Gyanendra
Released: January 18, 1959
Type: Movie
The plot revolves with series of flashbacks which reveals a judge's past and hidden secretes. Gyanendra, a judge lives with his wife Sarama. Being the Judge, every time of trial of similar cases he remembers his past, the truth about his questionable actions. Gyanendra always recalls when he was a popular lawyer, married to Sumoti, a suspicious and rude lady. But he had a weak feelings for his professor's daughter Sarama. One day Gyanendra's house was burnt and his first wife Sumoti dies. Gyanendra could not make any attempt to save her perhaps he was unable bear Sumati further. Thereafter he marries Sarama and becomes a judge but he realizes his crime and those past haunts him much.
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Doll's House
Title: Doll's House
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
The story starts with the scene where Goutam chatterjee is escaping from jail. Goutam is a freedom fighter and political leader. When Goutam is escaping, he takes shelter in Ruchira Banerjee's house. Ruchira's father Roylachadur. R. C. Banerjea is a police officer. Goutam gets away from there. In the meantime, Ruchira leaves her house because her father forces her against her wish to get married with Subir. After that, suddenly Ruchira meets Goutam again. They become friends and they move from one place to another together. And the story continues with suspence in every turn.
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Surya Toran
Title: Surya Toran
Character: Somnath
Released: November 21, 1958
Type: Movie
The story of a popular young writer and an idealistic young architect.
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Joutuk
Title: Joutuk
Released: October 31, 1958
Type: Movie
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Manmoyee Girls' School
Title: Manmoyee Girls' School
Released: July 25, 1958
Type: Movie
Deciding to start a school for girls named after his wife, a zamindar looks for a married couple to manage the establishment. They apply for and get the job. The two are not actually married; they posed as a couple to obtain the job. After a series of complications and delicate situations, love blooms between the two and they marry.
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Rajlakshmi O Srikanta
Title: Rajlakshmi O Srikanta
Character: Srikanta
Released: February 27, 1958
Type: Movie
Srikanta meets Pyaribai who is his childhood love Rajlakhsmi. Adapted from a noted novel 'Srikanta' of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, the film focuses on social issues. Srikanta goes to his friend Mahendra Rao's celebration where he meets Piyaribai. Although he can not recognizes her but Piyari knows him well as Srikanta was her childhood love. Piyari reveals the past fact of how she becomes so from Rajlakshmi. She was forced by the wicked society, poverty and misfortune she had to take this profession
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Indrani
Title: Indrani
Character: Sudarshan Dutta
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Indrani Mukherjee the only daughter of a staunch brahmin in a village studies at Kolkata and stays in a girls' hostel. She meets Sudarshan Dutta, who had a brilliant career as a student and is doing his PhD. They fall in love, and Indrani wants to get married with him as soon as possible. She goes back to her village and informs her father of her intention to get married, Indrani's father takes umbrage as Sudarshan is not a Brahmin and also unemployed. Sudarshan too warns Indrani that he won't be able to provide for her. Indrani marries Sudarshan and is tormented at Sudarshan's house by his mother and sisters in law because of several emotional strains at play. To avoid further complications at home, Indrani gets a job as a teacher in Dinajpur. One day, after a heated exchange between two people that started their journey fiercely loving and trusting one another, Sudarshan leaves Indrani and goes in search of a job elsewhere.
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Jiban Trishna
Title: Jiban Trishna
Character: Rajnath Samanta
Released: December 25, 1957
Type: Movie
A philanderer, the only son of a wealthy doctor, is attracted to a poor orphaned artist. Her stepbrother loathes rich people, and would go to any extent to get money off them. What would happen if the roles reversed?
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Chandranath
Title: Chandranath
Character: Chandranath
Released: November 15, 1957
Type: Movie
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Prithibi Amare Chay
Title: Prithibi Amare Chay
Character: Tapas Singha
Released: May 3, 1957
Type: Movie
A 1957 Indian film about an aspiring singer and the son of a reputed businessman. His stepmother accuses him of indecency and throws him out of his house to inherit all the property of her husband. The female protagonist suffers a similar fate as her stepmother forces her to leave. They both decide to commit suicide and go to a riverbank where they meet and the cupid strikes.
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Abhoyer Biye
Title: Abhoyer Biye
Released: March 13, 1957
Type: Movie
When Abhoy gets engaged to Sabitri she starts to ridicule him as he is old fashioned and socially awkward. Will situations change for Abhoy?
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Pathey Holo Deri
Title: Pathey Holo Deri
Released: January 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Poor but brilliant doctor Jayanta (Uttam Kumar) and Mallika (Suchitra Sen), the grand-daughter of one of the richest men in Darjeeling, fall head over heels in love. Mallika's grandfather is not amused and tries to break up the affair when Jayanta goes abroad to study for a higher degree. Will true love conquer all?
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Harano Sur
Title: Harano Sur
Character: Alok Mukherjee
Released: January 1, 1957
Type: Movie
An amnesiac man escapes the hospital he has been admitted to and is aided by doctor Roma Banerjee, who takes him to her father's country house. While treating him she falls for him and he for her. They marry, but an accident makes him remember his life as a rich man in Calcutta and completely forget the time spent with Roma. Roma follows him to Calcutta.
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Shilpi
Title: Shilpi
Character: Dhiman
Released: November 30, 1956
Type: Movie
A poor guy named Dhiman (Uttam Kumar) found a shelter in a rich man house but eventually fell in love with his daughter, Anjana (Suchitra Sen). Despite trying to make a name for himself by painting and sculpting, Dhiman and Anjana went through all kind of turmoil to be together.
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Shankar Narayan Bank
Title: Shankar Narayan Bank
Released: June 1, 1956
Type: Movie
The 1956 Indian Bengali film.
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One Night
Title: One Night
Character: Sushovan
Released: May 11, 1956
Type: Movie
This film revolves with miscommunication and misunderstanding of two couples and their family which cause series of laughter. Sushavan Dutta and his wife, Anita, were invited at their relative Digbijay babu's house. While in journey Anita misses train and Sushavan has to journey with another lady Santana. Santana is the wife of famous political leader Shailesh. At night they take shelter as husband and wife in Gosaiji's hotel, Harimatar Panthashala because Gosaiji allows married couples only. Santana carries a puppy with her, which run away from the garden of the hotel and Sushovan has to chase it at night. When Anita's mother comes to know that Sushavan is untraced, she becomes angry and make chaotic situation.
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Saheb Bibi Golam
Title: Saheb Bibi Golam
Character: Bhutnath
Released: March 9, 1956
Type: Movie
The film explores the tragic fall of feudalism in Bengal during the British Raj. The title of the movie and the story is a reference to the plot simultaneously exploring a platonic relationship between a beautiful, forlorn wife of an aristocrat and a career-driven clerk.
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Trijama
Title: Trijama
Released: February 16, 1956
Type: Movie
Swarupa, an introvert, fails to express her love to Kushal, who falls for Abala, a rich and beautiful woman. However, things take a sharp turn when greedy Abala leaves him for a wealthier man. Based on the story by eminent Bengali writer Subodh Ghosh who was also a member of the screen adaptation team.
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The Dawn
Title: The Dawn
Released: January 5, 1956
Type: Movie
Mrinal Sen's first film Raat Bhor, was released in 1956. Deeply influenced by the leftist ideology, this film dealt with social and political themes.
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Sagarika
Title: Sagarika
Released: January 2, 1956
Type: Movie
The all-time favourite on-screen couple of the Bengali cinema not just created many memorable romantic moments but also shattered many taboos around romance, just like in the 1956 classic ‘Sagarika’. Made by the directorial group Agragami, its story follows a young talented lad Arun (Uttam Kumar) with a big dream of studying medicine abroad and the women he comes across. Arun, after being blind for a period, finally reunites with his love and life becomes all good.
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Upahar
Title: Upahar
Released: December 30, 1955
Type: Movie
Krishna, the daughter of a penny-pincher, falls for their tenant, Sunil. However, when Sunil leaves to forge a career, her insensitive father fixes her marriage with someone else for money.
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Sabar Uparey
Title: Sabar Uparey
Character: Shankar Chatterjee
Released: December 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Shankar was a young lawyer in pursuit of making it big in the professional world. However his world is turned upside down when he comes to know that his father, who knew went missing, was in real spending his lifetime in the jail as he was incorrectly accused of murdering a lady named Hemangini. His mother urges him to reinvestigate into the case and save his father. He goes to Kishnanagar in search of the people and the evidences which would help him to prove his father’s innocence. He meets Rita, an young and charming lady who assists him. They fall in love. Shankar faces a lot of roadblocks while trying to collect clues most of them which were imposed by the actual murderer. However he solves the mystery in the end and his father is thus, released from prison.
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Kankabatir Ghat
Title: Kankabatir Ghat
Released: December 1, 1955
Type: Movie
When Mr. Mukherjee's wife drowns herself in the Ganges to save her ailing husband, people start showering her with respect. Years later, things head towards the same direction for her daughter. Uma meets her rival Mrinaal with almost compassion, keeps her son at her refuge and follows the same path of her mother Kangkabati.
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Hrad
Title: Hrad
Released: July 29, 1955
Type: Movie
This film was released on 29 July 1955 under the banner of Rupmaya films.
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Raikamal
Title: Raikamal
Released: March 8, 1955
Type: Movie
Raikamal narrates the story of Rai Kamal, a devotee of Lord Krishna. Rai Kamal and Ranjan are childhood sweethearts. When Ranjan grows up he wishes his desire to marry Rai but his parents are against this match as they are Brahmins and Rai Kamal was a low caste Vaishnav.
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Bidhilipi
Title: Bidhilipi
Released: January 7, 1955
Type: Movie
Directed by Manu Sen.
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The Power of Chant
Title: The Power of Chant
Released: December 17, 1954
Type: Movie
Ambernath a well-educated Sanskrit pundit was different from his childhood. The way he thought and described everything was quite different from others. His master Jagannath Tarka Churamoni loved him a lot and after his death, Ambernath took his place. In such a situation Bani the daughter of local zamindar and Ambernath met. After few days, they got married. Bani were very skeptical about her husband and they were not happy with their relation. Later Ambernath left his wife and stayed alone. In the meantime, Bani also understood the affection and love she had for her husband. She came to know about life and commitment. One day Bani heard that Ambernath was very ill and he stayed in a lonely place. Bani rushed there and put her every effort to make him healthy. Later they came to know each other and lived happily.
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Agni Pariksha
Title: Agni Pariksha
Released: September 3, 1954
Type: Movie
Love story of Tapasi and Kiriti in the backdrop of social and cultural conflict regarding marriages and progressiveness.
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Annapurnar Mandir
Title: Annapurnar Mandir
Released: August 6, 1954
Type: Movie
Ramshankar is a poor man who lives with his family. He arranges his daughter's marriage with an old man. Soon, she returns home as a widow and Ramshankar realises his mistake.
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Champadangar Bou
Title: Champadangar Bou
Released: August 5, 1954
Type: Movie
Setap, a money-minded man, gets insecure when he hears a rumour about his dutiful wife and spendthrift brother, Mahatap. Soon, things go out of hand when Setap's rage takes over. Setap became mad hearing those words from Ghoton.
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Beyond Death
Title: Beyond Death
Character: Dr. Ashok
Released: June 25, 1954
Type: Movie
Rai Bahadur Bhujanga Choudhury married Smritikana many years after the death of her first wife. Often she remembers the incidents in her previous life and she behaves in extremely unnatural way. Tanima (Suchitra Sen) is the daughter of Bhujanga from his first marriage. Tanima takes his stepmother Smritikana to the hospital for treatment. There Tanima fell in love with the Doctor Ashok (Uttamkumar) who was treating Smritikana. When she saw Dr. Ashok first time, Smritikana behaved in an weird way and she thought Ashok is his Son. Although in love with Tanima, Ashok refused to marry her because he himself is an orphan and doesn't know his parents. One day while Dr. Ashok was talking to his senior Dr (who looked after Ashok since his childhood) and Tanima, suddenly they heard some people chasing a thief (Gurudas). When the thief entered, Smritikana devi saw him and instantly recognized him as Gurudas. Then the story from her previous birth unfolded.
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Sadanander Mela
Title: Sadanander Mela
Released: January 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Sadananda, a wanderer, brings about a positive change in the lives of everyone around him when he starts living in a renowned man's unoccupied mansion along with the family of a little girl, Runu.
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Moner Mayur
Title: Moner Mayur
Released: January 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Anu and Binay love each other and wish to get married but face opposition from her greedy uncle. They decide to elope but are caught and separated due to unforeseen circumstances.
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Sharey Chuattar
Title: Sharey Chuattar
Character: Rampriti
Released: January 2, 1953
Type: Movie
The owner of Annapurna boarding house facing an upcoming trouble for let in a girl in the boys hostel.
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Lakh Taka
Title: Lakh Taka
Released: January 2, 1953
Type: Movie
The movie tells about the story of fakkaram a.k.a. fakka and his love along with his family and his greedy relatives in search of a valuable amount of money left by a millionaire.
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Bou Thakuranir Haat
Title: Bou Thakuranir Haat
Released: January 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Bou Thakuranir Haat is a Bengali drama film directed by Naresh Mitra based on a novel of Rabindranath Tagore in the same name, published in 1883. The film is based on the real-life story of Jessore Raj Pratapaditya. Pratapaditya is described as an antagonist more than a protagonist in this film.
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Kar Papey
Title: Kar Papey
Released: August 15, 1952
Type: Movie
A womanizer (Asit Baran) conceals his syphilis and prepares to marry for the second time. Will his first wife be able to stop him?
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Basu Paribar
Title: Basu Paribar
Released: April 11, 1952
Type: Movie
A job in the jute mill drive Sitesh away from his brother Nitesh and sister-in-law and lands him into a stream of marriage proposals and attempts by colleagues to make him their son-in-law. What will happen when he falls in love and is not accepted by the father of the girl?
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Dignity
Title: Dignity
Released: December 15, 1950
Type: Movie
Maryada was a Bengali drama film directed by Digambar Chattopadhyay. This movie was released on 15 December 1950 in the banner of Bhabani Kalamandir Limited. This is the third and first movie of legendary Bengali actor Uttam Kumar and Bibhu Bhattacharya appeared respectively. In this movie Uttam Kumar leap on a song for the first time in his career.
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Desire
Title: Desire
Released: March 4, 1949
Type: Movie
Kamona is a Bengali drama film directed by Nabendu Sundar. This movie was released on 4 March 1949 in the banner of Kirti Pictures. This is the second film of Bengali actor Uttam Kumar after Drishtidan and debut as the leading person crediting him as Uttam Chatterjee instead of Arun Kumar Chatterjee.
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Drishtidan
Title: Drishtidan
Released: April 23, 1948
Type: Movie
Uttam Kumar debuted in this film.
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Maya Dore
Title: Maya Dore
Released: June 19, 1947
Type: Movie
Unreleased Hindi Film