The best Uttam Kumar’s drama movies

Uttam Kumar

Uttam Kumar

03/09/1926- 24/07/1980
We present our ranking of the best Uttam Kumar’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Uttam Kumar.
Year:

Bandie

Bandie
4.7/10
Maharaj Brajbhan lives a wealthy lifestyle in Bharatpur, India along with his wife, Badi Rani, but have been unable to conceive for Bharatpur, and have no choice but to leave it's reigns with Brajban's widowed cousin, Vikram, and his son, Kanchan. When Vikram finds out that Badi Rani is pregnant, he plots to first sully her character by having her abducted, then shunned by the Maharaj, and then decides to have her killed. But her killer has a change of heart and lets her live. She gives birth to a son, names him Bhola, and starts living a simple lifestyle in a Mandir with the help of it's Poojary. Years later Vikram finds out she is alive and kills her, as well the Poojary and the Poojary's son. Bhola witnesses this, manages to escape, starts to live with a poor widow, grows up uneducated, and makes a living through crime.

The Hero

The Hero
8.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 06/05/1966
  • Character: Arindam Mukherjee
A matinee idol is going by train to collect an acting award. On the train, he is confronted by a journalist who somewhat unwillingly starts to take his interview. Arindam, won over by Aditi's naivete, starts to disclose his past, his fears and his secrets.

Bilambita Loy

Bilambita Loy
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/12/1970
A promising artist and a singer fall in love in college and get married against their families' wishes. The singer soon begins performing to support her husband and becomes nationally renowned. On the other hand, the artist fails to earn a livelihood and becomes alcoholic.

Amanush

Amanush
7/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 21/03/1975
  • Character: Madhusudan Roy Chaudhary 'Madhu'
Madhusudan Chaudhary lives in a small fishing village in West Bengal, India, along with his wealthy but aging paternal uncle, who trusts him and lets him handle their estate and business. Madhusudan is in love with Dr. Anand's sister, Rekha, and everyone expects them to get married soon. Madhusudan's vices are drinking and having a good time, and this is what is held against him when a woman named Champa confides in Rekha that he had been intimate with her and as a result got her pregnant. Rekha confronts Madhusudan, but he denies everything, however, Rekha disbelieves him. Angry, he goes in search of Champa, only to find out that she is not to be found anywhere in the village.

The Return of Little Master

The Return of Little Master
7.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/04/1960
  • Character: Raicharan
The plot revolves with Raicharan's tragic life. He is the obedient servant of local zamindar and takes care of zamindar's son whom he addresses as Khokababu. One day the little son dies in an accident in river flood and he is blamed for the same. In a delusional state, Raicharan starts believing his own infant to be his much loved khokababu and brought him up only to return him to his master.

The Last Act

The Last Act
8.1/10
Widower Sudhangsu is going to be married with Soma, daughter of Sir Haraprasad. Sudhangsu declares that his first wife Kalpana committed suicide on a railway track in Burma, stating that she was mentally challenged. At the time of the marriage rituals a local advocate, Suren Banerjee, comes with a lady who claims that she herself is Kalpana and that Sudhangshu is committing bigamy. Sudhangsu strongly denies and claims that she is an imposter. In the meantime a mysterious person name Samadder invaded Sudhangsu's house and stole some ornaments of the deceased Kalpana.

Mem Saheb

Mem Saheb
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 17/10/1972
  • Character: Amitabh
Kajal, a dark-skinned woman, falls in love with Amit, an unemployed journalist. She urges him to focus on his career and provides unconditional support but destiny has other plans for the couple.

Antony Firingee

Antony Firingee
7.7/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 06/01/1967
  • Character: Antony Firingee
Antony Firingee was a Portuguese-Indian who became a famous Bengali poet musician and fell in love with Shakila. She agreed to marry him after revealing her tragic history. But his fame was not enough to overcome their ostracisation and tragedy struck again.

The Zoo

The Zoo
7.2/10
Chiriakhana or Chiriyakhana is a 1967 Bengali film by Satyajit Ray. It is a whodunit suspense thriller, starring Uttam Kumar as Byomkesh Bakshi. The title means "The Zoo". The screenplay is by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay.

Sabyasachi

Sabyasachi
8.4/10
The film portrays a charismatic and passionate freedom fighter 'Sabyasachi', taken from the novel 'Pather Dabi' by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, in his repeated struggle against the full might of the colonial British rule.

Thirst for Life

Thirst for Life
8.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/12/1957
  • Character: Rajnath Samanta
A philanderer only son of a millionaire is attracted to a poor orphan artist, whose god-brother is a hater of rich people, and would go to any extent to get money off them.What would happen when the roles reverse?

Doll's House

Doll's House
7.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1959
The story starts with the scene where Goutam chatterjee is escaping from jail. Goutam is a freedom fighter and political leader. When Goutam is escaping, he takes shelter in Ruchira Banerjee's house. Ruchira's father Roylachadur. R. C. Banerjea is a police officer. Goutam gets away from there. In the meantime, Ruchira leaves her house because her father forces her against her wish to get married with Subir. After that, suddenly Ruchira meets Goutam again. They become friends and they move from one place to another together. And the story continues with suspence in every turn.

Ekhane Pinjar

Ekhane Pinjar
7.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/01/1971
  • Character: Amal Basu
Amal Basu, who decides to visit his hometown, meets Lila on the train. When he goes to his friend Nabendu's home, he learns that Lila is his sister and a smuggler.

Shankhabela

Shankhabela
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1966
  • Character: Sunil Ganguly
Tripti's ill son has been admitted to the hospital. A teacher by profession, she visits her son every day after school. One day on her way, she comes across her estranged husband, Sunil Ganguly.

Darpa Churna

Darpa Churna
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1980

Jhinder Bandi

Jhinder Bandi
7.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/03/1961
  • Character: King
Gauri Shankar Roy looks much like the king of Jhind. When the actual king, Shakar Singh, goes missing, a person from the kingdom approaches Gauri to pretend to be the king.

Kal Tumi Aleya

Kal Tumi Aleya
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/12/1966
  • Character: Dhirapada Chakraborty
Kal Tumi Aleya’ is the story of rise of Dhirapada Chakroborty from his humble background to the post of general supervisor in Mr. Himanshu Mitra’s company. It’s his journey which shows his various relations with his neighbor whom he calls Sona boudi, Charu di who helps him get this job, Labanya Sarkar, the lady doctor of the company and Amit, Charu’s nephew. The film shows how he faces and handles different circumstances of life and business. It’s the story of Dhirpada’s journey in this delusionary world.

Hinglaj, the Desert Shrine

Hinglaj, the Desert Shrine
8/10
While on their way to Hinglaj, Maharaj and his companions meet Kunti, who was raped by dacoits, and Thirumal, whom she left her family for. Together, they set out to seek the blessings of God.

Abak Prithibi

Abak Prithibi
8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/12/1959
Arjun is a very lonely person. He doesn't know what life is. Every day for him is a struggle. So he becomes a criminal. Jail is a safe custody for him because food is always available in jail. So he tries to return to the place, but all his efforts gone in vain, then he travels to a place and meets a father. He is the principal of a missionary residential school. In that place Arjun meets Miss Chaterjee, a teacher. At first she doesn't like him, but shortly she started to realise Arjun's quality. Arjun is an also a very good singer, but again for his bad reputation police catches him and send him to the jail. In court some students actually support him and thus all the misunderstanding solved and the truth prevails.

Raikamal

Raikamal
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 08/03/1955
Raikamal narrates the story of Rai Kamal, a devotee of Lord Krishna. Rai Kamal and Ranjan are childhood sweethearts. When Ranjan grows up he wishes his desire to marry Rai but his parents are against this match as they are Brahmins and Rai Kamal was a low caste Vaishnav.

Related actors