Uttam Kumar : A Life in Cinema

into how a towering image was mobilised for an ever-greater, wholesome, popular and even, at times, radical and progressive entertainment. A complimentary métier of this work is to explore why and how this star persona would go on to reconstitute the bhadrolok Bengali visual and cultural world in the post-Partition period.But above all, this is the story of a clerk who became an actor, an actor who became a star, a star who became an icon and an icon who became a legend. [Publisher's Text]

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