Mahanayak By Mamata Banerjee

Mahanayak

By Mamata Banerjee

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Uttam Kumar – the name is ever vibrant in the hearts of millions of Bengali cine lovers across all generations. His charisma is beyond emulation. His personality is all-encompassing. The immortal roles he played transformed him to a living legend, the indisputable greatest-ever actor to dominate the Bengali filmdom.

He was the "Mahanayak" of Tollywood. His towering stature in the film industry poised him like a bridge between Tollywood, Bollywood and Hollywood. 

On the 24th of July, 1980, Uttam Kumar passed away, creating an irretrievable void in the hearts of his countless lovers, admirers and followers.

After our Government assumed office, as a mark of our tribute to the legendary Uttam Kumar, 24th July has come to be reckoned as a very special day – the day we honour the great men and women of the cinema world for their outstanding contribution to our lives, society and culture. 

Like previous year, this year we have honoured 50 film personalities and entities with a set of prestigious awards, christened after the greatest celebrity of all times in our hearts, the one and only Uttam Kumar.

The awardees are:

For lifetime achievement 

Madhabi Mukhopadhyay Sandhya Roy Dipankar De
Ranjit Mullick Goutam Ghosh

Mahanayak Award 2013

Tapas Pal Prasenjit Chattopadhyay

Special Film Award 

Actor/Actress:

Saswata Chatterjee Mamata Shankar Laboni Sarkar
Nayana Das Sudipta Chakrabarti Ananya Chatterjee
Rachana Banerjee Swastika Mukherjee Rajesh Sharma
Parambrata Chatterjee Deb Jit
Jishu Sengupta Soham Subhasish Mukherjee
Koel Mullick Suvashri Srabanti
Raima Sen Churni Ganguly


Music Director

Suparnokanti Ghosh Prateek Chowdhury Indradip Dasgupta
Anupam Roy

Director

Sandip Ray Koushik Ganguly Srijit Mukherjee
Sujit Guha Raj Chakrabarti

Cinematographer

Aveek Mukhopadhyay Barun Mukherjee

Editor

Arghyakamal Mitra Rabiranjan Moitra

Art Director

Nitish Roy

Producer

New Theatres Private Limited Arora Film Corporation Private Ltd.
Sri Venkatesh Films Private Limited R D Bansal and Company

Sound Recording

Anup Mukherjee Sushanta Banerjee

Make-up Artist

Anup Ganguly

Special Award

Chinmoy Roy Partha Mukherjee

At a glittering ceremony in Nazul Mancha today, we gave away these awards to the recipients. A lively cultural program was presented after the award-giving ceremony. Some pictures of the event are uploaded for all of you to see.

Mahanayak still thrills. The legendary hero would be in our hearts in eternal perpetuity.