Mahanayak Revisited  (English, Paperback, Mullick Swapan)

This is one of those books that one always wishes comes about once in a while. The great Bengali actor Uttam Kumar was simply reason enough for me to pick this book up and get home to read it as soon as possible.

For those (English language readers) who agonize over the unavailability of any authorized biography/autobiography and hardly know anything at all about Bengal's most famous luminary, who had the Bengali cinema audiences spellbound throughout 1950s, 60s & 70s post-renaissance Calcut...

Mr.Swapan Mullick in this book, had presented his own view of Mahanayak,writing foolish information and had tried to impress using bombard English and stupid sense of humour.He says that more than 70% of his films have been destroyed which is completely wrong as I have traced 160 of his 207 known films...Nothing definite can be learnt from his book,because it written from a critic's point of view,not as neutral which we would all prefer,but some 8 pretty rare photos are in the book and in som...