Watching Nayak on the big screen, I could fully grasp why this man held such a sway over Bengal’s male and female audiences. Why in a hugely popular comedy film from the early ’70s, one of the actors ...

That, clearly, was enough for Nayak. Enough even now, almost 60 years after it first flickered on the big screen and became part of cinema history. The Satyajit Ray classic, which had “Mahanayak” ...

W hen the restored version of Satyajit Ray and Uttam Kumar’s 1966 classic, Nayak, hit theatres on Friday, it turned out to be ...

In Uttam Kumar: A Life in Cinema (2021), author Sayandeb Chowdhury begins with an anecdote about Bengali cinema’s two foremost immortals: Satyajit Ray and Uttam Kumar. The year was 1966. Ray’s ...

Nayak is a sophisticated psychological portrait of a movie star who looks back on his progress from the summit of his popularity, disaffected by what he sees. Uttam Kumar in Nayak (1966). Courtesy ...

Uttam Kumar was a smoker in real life too, wasn’t he? Yes, yes. Sadly, he passed away in his fifties. ‘Nayak’ also explores ...

The restored version of Satyajit Ray's acclaimed film Nayak: The Hero, starring Uttam Kumar and Sharmila Tagore, is set to release in Indian theaters this February with English subtitles. This re ...

When the restored version of Satyajit Ray and Uttam Kumar’s 1966 classic, Nayak, hit theatres on Friday, it turned out to be a celebration of sorts for Indian cinephiles.While the veterans re ...

For Uttam Kumar, ‘Nayak’ was his first collaboration with Satyajit Ray. You, on the other hand, worked with Ray multiple times. How do you compare those experiences?