Upahar

Upahar is a Bengali drama film directed by Tapan Sinha based on a novel Krishna of Sailajananda Mukherjee. This film was produced by the Bani Chitram and release in 1955. It's starring Uttam Kumar, Manju Dey and Sabitri Chatterjee in lead. Music director of the film was Kalipada Sen. This was the second film and first collaboration for Sinha with Kumar. The film was critically acclaimed but was moderately successful at the box office.

Cast

Uttam Kumar as Professor Ashok Sarkar
Sabitri Chatterjee as Krishna
Manju Dey as Neela
Nirmal Kumar Chattopadhyay as Sunil
Chabi Biswas as Sunil's father
Kanu Banerjee as Kangalibabu
Aparna Devi as Sunil's mother
Tulsi Chakraborty as Ghatak
Anubha Gupta as Sunil's aunt
Jahar Roy as Servant
Shyam Laha as Sethji

Reception

This was only the second Bengali film from director Tapan Sinha. His first film Ankush did not perform well. This was also the first collaboration by Uttam and Sinha. This film performed average at that time, but Uttam's performance was considered as one of the finest and ahead of the time. Sinha wrote in his autobiography that "Uttam's future is promising. There is lot of potential hidden in him." This film was a milestone.