Uttam Kumar, for Bengalis, is an emotion. The actor who is lovingly remembered as Mahanayak, gave cinema lovers and the Bengali film industry countless films to cherish long after he was gone. As a befitting ode to him, Srijit Mukerji’s next, titled Oti Uttam, is a romantic comedy where we will indeed get to see the late superstar yet again, as far as the teaser proves.
The beauty of VFX has brought back the star in this film, and the cast features Anindya Sengupta, Roshni Bhattacharya, Gaurav Chatterjee, Laboni Sarkar, Shubhashish Mukherjee, Jeena Tarafder, and Sonia Gupta. The teaser lays the premise of a young man obsessed with Uttam Kumar and doing a PhD on the sociological impact of the smile of Uttam Kumar.
The plot is unique and different, and what’s got everyone transfixed on their screen is simply the joy of seeing Uttam Kumar act again. The film is slated to release in December of this year.