MEMORY OF YOUNG LIFE ( 1955 - 60 )

I am now too much of an old man, to enjoy popular CIMEMA or even dicuss the big shows i saw , when young,or like talking about.
Now a days even Political Leaders thrive better with Metro-Station named after film stars like-; better I won't name any.. A few pictures rise in my mind,on memory lane , buble- up and burst;
Umttam Kumar's brother TARUN KUMAR was , always to me , a beteter actor ,
aad as luck means every thing in life and success, Uttam kumar had a vey good figure and FACE face and TARUN was no match against UTTAM.. Really ,UTTAM was really handsome and in those days only handsome and young facees had only chance to be hero in a fim. Because in those days, there was no G.B.S, in Bengal to tell what the word 'HERO' really mean in the field of real play and great story.
Those who have not seen ugley shape of Charles Laughton in Les MISERABLE or . Witness for the Prosecution, won't know what I mean to impress upon;
Any way, but- we had Tarun kumar a great actor but no director to notice his talent or a right script to choose..
But for Satyajit Roy, the great talent of Tulsi cchakravarty in PARAS PATHAR would never have been known. But , sadly , he was abused , mostly in CHEAP Comedies.

Coming to my Final Opinion ; Suchitra Sen was ever a better Actor than Uttam Kumar and it was she wwho guided him up to higher level of presentation in Mature age of acting .I told it even then but luckily I was not important then nor even now.
Concluding my reminiscence, I remember when in 1955/56 I came to CALCUTTA from DELHI on leave as a young Doctor in Service ,I Went to see "PTHER PANCHALEE" in BASU SREE HALL in SOUTH CALCUTTA with a friend. The Hall was more than half empty. Within 20 meters there was BIZALI showing a picture DASHYU MOHAN running and the Crowd there for booking was almost 2 furlong long covering even the MAIN ROAD and Police had to resort to Lathi Charge. ..... But , We both the friends ,saw the picture , forgot to speak to one another , walked out almost in Trance reached our separate destination.
I rememnext when I wrote from DELHI to my friend , Dr. Biplab BASU and captioned it as " a poem on Celluloid', he agreed and respoded with a coplement to it as a poetic utteranc !
Even for the next whole month there was no wave nor news nor uproar nor eloquoence in media world . And then , when .....the Kanes Festival declared its OPINION with a GOLD, Bengal woke up with follow up PRAISE, AND --all else is history !!