Uttarayan (1963)-Bengali Movie
Uttaryan’ is a wonderful film of love, hope, and sacrifice directed by the eminent direction group ‘Agradoot’. Uttam Kumar, Supriya Devi, Sabitri Chatterjee, Anil Chatterjee are wonderful in their roles, while the Mahanayak is in a double role. The film is about the relationship of a few people in the war period in India. Their love and trust survives is at stake in the city that is devastated by the war and took toll of so many lives and so much resourses. Everyone tries to live, and their everyday struggle is to come out of the pain and the aftermath of war that has damaged their lives in some way or the other. It is a struggle in every way – they are all trying to defeat their fate, trying to love and trust each other, and above all live. The film may remind us of the Hindi film ‘Hum Dono’ which is another classic cast by Dev Anand, Sadhna, Achla Sachdev.