I notice the first theatre season in the new Bangladesh Commonwealth has been marked by a revival of Utpal Dutt's play about corruption among the social elites, Hari Phatibe. This brings back memories ...
Shobha Sen, veteran theatre actress and wife of Utpal Dutt, passes away. Pic/Sukhmanch Theatre's Twitter account Shobha Sen, veteran theatre personality and wife of late thespian Utpal Dutt, passed ...
Portraying the balding, pot-bellied, mustachioed, and regimen-imposing Bhawani Shankar in a brace of Bollywood laugh riots, or ACP Dhurandhar Bhatawadekar or Kailash Pati in more Hrishikesh Mukherjee ...
MUMBAI, (IANS) – His portrayals of the idiosyncratic, moustache-fanatic, and rule-imposing Bhawani Shankar or the stern ACP Dhurandhar Bhatawadekar in a brace of breezy Bollywood comedies are ...
In Piku, Bhashkor Banerjee wasn't merely a cranky, gassy old fellow that every Bengali daughter could relate to – he was a living philosophy of life with digestive issues. As Piku prepares to ...
Amitabh Bachchan’s Bhaskor Banerjee in “Piku” had traces of Utpal Dutt’s screen persona, says Shoojit Sircar who feels surprised that his attempt to capture the mundane everyday family life with ...
In Satyajit Ray's final film Aguntuk (1991) Dutt played Manmohan Mitra, a worldly, avuncular globetrotter who helps his loved ones understand the disillusionment around modernity In Hrishikesh ...