UTPAL DUTT 90 & HIS 'BHUVAN SHOME' 50!

Utpal Dutt & Suhasini Mulay in Mrinal Sen's film 'Bhuvan Shome' (1969).

Today is 90th Birth Anniversary of one of the intellectual actors of Indian cinema...Utpal Dutt! On this occasion remembered 50 years completed his 'Bhuvan Shome' (1969) a landmark film of 'Indian New Wave Cinema'!

Mrinal Sen shooting 'Bhuvan Shome' (1969) with cinematographer K.K.Mahajan!

Begali theatre & film actor Utpal Dutt prominently acted in Bengali films like..in Satyajit Ray's 'Agantuk' (1991) and Gautam Ghosh's 'Padma Nadir Majhi' (1993). Apart from that he got fame in Hindi cinema too like..Hrishikesh Mukherjee's 'Golmal' (1979). But he was best known for 'Bhuvan Shome' for which he won 'Best Actor National Award'!

Utpal Dutt & Suhasini Mulay in 'Bhuvan Shome' (1969).

Our renowned filmmaker Mrinal Sen fantastically directed 'Bhuvan Shome' (1969) which was based on the Bengali novel 'Banaphool' wrote by Balai Chand Mukhopadhya! 
It's about changing life of bureaucrat!..Utpal Dutt played the title role in it superbly. This was the debut film of talented actress Suhasini Mulay who played village belle so nicely!

Great Filmmaker..Mrinal Sen!

That time emerging actor (latter became superstar) Amitabh Bachchan did voiceover for this as narrator! Film & director Mrinal Sen also won National Awards!!

Tribute to this our new wave pioneering film and it's director, cinematographer & actor!!

- Manoj Kulkarni