Uttarayan

Uttarayan (1963)

উত্তরায়ণ

Prabir goes to war where he meets his doppelganger, Rataneshwar, who eventually dies in combat. Prabir decides to visit Rataneshwar's family to inform them about his death but the family mistake him for Rataneshwar.

Date of release
1963-08-16
TMDB
7.2 / 10 (2)
Runtime
2h 15m
Genres
Drama
Director
Agradoot

Casting

Interesting facts

Uttarayan is a 1963 Indian Bengali-language war drama film co-written and directed by Agradoot. Produced by Parashmal Bhuteria and Deepchand Kankariya under the banner of Parashmal–Deepchand Ventures, the film is based Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay's short story of the same name and is also heavily inspired by its Hindi screen adaptation Hum Dono (1961) starring Dev Anand. The film stars Uttam Kumar in dual roles, alongside Supriya Devi, Sabitri Chatterjee and Anil Chatterjee in another pivotal roles.

Production

In 1959, Dev Anand had actually read Tarasankar Bandopadhyay's novel Uttarayan and bought the rights from him to make a Hindi film on it, under his home banner Navketan Films. His brother Vijay Anand wrote its screenplay, adapting the original story.

In 1962, Uttam Kumar signed to collaborate with Agradoot for the project, who previously delivered two commercially successful films with them for – Agni Sanskar (1961) and Bipasha (1962). Initially, Bibhuti Laha was to produce the film, while later the duo Parashmal–Deepchand came on the board as its producer. The same year, Kumar became appraisal of Anand's perdormance in Hum Dono, after watching the film at Roxy Cinema, Kolkata.

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