The Satyajit Ray classic, which had “Mahanayak” Uttam Kumar playing a version of himself but in a way that only he could, ...

Uttam Kumar got only one and a half Ray films, Nayak and Chiriakhana. His oeuvre, almost the entirety of the 200-plus films that he did in Bangla and Hindi, consists of what is broadly classified as ...

Actress Sharmila Tagore discusses the re-release of her iconic films ‘Nayak’ and ‘Aradhana’ in theatres. She praises the ...

But when Ray came up with Nayak in 1966, he cast Bengali icon Uttam Kumar, both as a version of himself and a composite of matinee idols past and present. Who else but Uttam Kumar, then at the ...

I’d met them. Arindam Mukherjee (played by Uttam Kumar) was much like the film stars I had admired from a distance, and yet felt familiar. This was unlike anything ‘artsy’ I had ever seen. Most films ...

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 ...

Satyajit Ray’s 1966 film Nayak is about a superstar taking a train to collect a National Award. On his way, this star—played by matinee colossus Uttam Kumar—meets existential angst ...

Young cinephiles we spoke to said the classic and its story are still relevant Sharmila Tagore and Uttam Kumar in a still from the film ‘Nayak would’ve shaken the industry if released today ...