![]() ![]() The Bengali acting legend died on Jat Tollygunge, Kolkata. He was taken to the best nursing home (as private hospitals were known then) called Belle View in Kolkata where the doctors tried in vain to revive his heart beat. He suffered a massive heart-attack in his green room after he gave a shot for Ogo Bodhu Shundari. Uttam Kumar finished dubbing for the film in 1980 and returned to Kolkata to shoot his Bengali films. ![]() The film was a beautiful experiment where parallel cinema met mainstream cinema, an art that took almost 30 years to perfect in Bollywood! In the rest of the country, the film – with no songs, romantic scenes or a lead heroine – sank without a trace. The film was released in 1981 and ran for 10 weeks at Elite Cinema in Kolkata. Just a few months before his death, Uttam Kumar finished dubbing for a another crime thriller called Plot number 5. There he played a serial-killer who’s bound to a wheelchair. Uttam Kumar died while filming Ogo Bodhu Shundari. You have probably heard that Uttam Kumar’s last film is a Bengali film called Ogo Bodhu Shundari. ![]()
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