Sagina mahato dilip kumar autobiography
Salute to two legends -...
Dilip Kumar’s Bengali film as a hero was a noble failure
Dilip Kumar towered over Hindi cinema for decades. His major non-Hindi film, however, was a noble failure.
In 1970, acclaimed Bengali director Tapan Sinha made Sagina Mahato, inspired by labour unrest in the tea estates of Darjeeling in the early 1940s.
Sagina mahato dilip kumar autobiography
Sagina Mahato starred Dilip Kumar, Saira Banu and Anil Chatterjee. The Hindi remake, Sagina, followed four years later.
Sinha was coming off the successes of Hatey Bajarey (1967) and Apanjan (1968), both well-regarded explorations of class relations.
Her met Kumar through a common friend. “His gentle, friendly nature evoked instant enthusiasm in me to explore the subject of the film he had brought with him,” Kumar recalled in an interview with IANS in 2009. “We met quite often during his stay in Mumbai.
The more we interacted and exchanged thoughts, the more convinced I was that I should work with him.”
The 1970 production, shot in black and white, won the Nat