A ten day Uttam-Suchitra film festival began on Wednesday through the screening of Shilpi (1956) at the International Digital Cultural Archive of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy.
The film screening programme has been organised by the academy to the pay tribute to the 82-year-old legendary Indian actor Suchitra Sen, who has been critically ill for the last few days.The film festival titled Tribute to Suchitra Sen will screen ten popular films of the popular duo Suchitra Sen and Uttam Kumar.
Director general of BSA Liaquat Ali Lucky inaugurated the festival yesterday evening after which the film Shilpi was screened.
‘We have selected ten major films of the popular duo of Uttam and Suchitra to pay tribute to the legendary actress. In fact, many of our audience requested us to organise such a film screening programme,’ said an official of the theatre and film department.
Uttam-Suchitra’s Sabar Upare (1955) will be screened at 6:00pm today at the festival.
Consequently, the duo’s Sagarika (1956) will be screened aon January 10, Pathe Holo Deri (1957) on January 11, Saptapadi (1961) on January 12, Ekti Raat (1956) on January 13, Harano Sur (1957) on January 14, Sajher Pradeep (1955) on January 15, Sare Chuattur (1953) on January 16 and Ora Thake Odhare (1954) will be screened on January 17 at the same time.
The legendary actress Suchitra Sen was born on April 06 in 1931, in the district of Pabna in Bangladesh.
She was the first Bangali actress to be awarded in an international film festival (Best Actress award for Saat Paake Bandha in the 1963 Moscow film festival). She was awarded with Padma Shri in 1972 by Government of India. In 2012, Sen was conferred West Bengal government’s highest award Banga Bibhushan.
Suchitra Sen acted in her first film Shesh Kothaay in 1952, but it was never released. However, the actress had her debut in 1953 where she acted opposite to Uttam Kumar in Sharey Chuattor.
-With New Age input
