Mahanayak Uttam Kumar Award 2012

For the first time, the prestigious Mahanayak Uttam Kumar award would
be initiated today on this 32nd death anniversary of the matinee idol
of Bengalees. The function of award giving ceremony will be held at
Science City Auditorium from 5pm onwards.
Soumitra Chattopadhyay, Supriya Devi, Sabitri Chattopadhyay would be
given Lifetime Achievement Award. Mithun Chakraborty will be awarded
with the prestigious Mahanayak Samman 2012. Special film award for acting and direction would be given to Aparna Sen.
Moreover, 46 other actors, musicians, film directors,
cinematographers, story and script writers, art directors would be
awarded by the name of Uttam Kumar.
They are: actor Madhabi Mukhopadhyay, Anjana Bhowmic, Sumita Sanyal,
Sandhya Roy, Dipti Roy, Sabita Basu, Lalita Chattopadhyay, Lily
Chakraborty, Mousumi Chattopadhyay, Debashri Roy, Shatabdi Roy,
Rituparna Sengupta, Indrani Halder, Haradhan Bandyopadhyay, Biswajit
Chattopadhyay, Nirmal Kumar, Ranjit Mullick, Dipankar Dey, Santu
Mukhopadhyay, Chiranjit Chakraborty, Tapas Paul, Prosenjit
Chattopadhyay. Music director Ajoy Das, Mrinal Bandyopadhyay, Rabindra
Jain, Abhijit Bandyopadhyay, Bappi Lahiri, Debajyoti Mishra, Jit
Gangopadhyay. Film directors Arabinda Mukhopadhyay, Goutam Ghosh,
Biresh Chattopadhyay, Prabhat Roy. Cinematographers Ramananda
Sengupta, Soumendu Roy, Kanai Dey, Shakti Bandyopadhyay. Story and
screenplay writers Shaktipada Rajguru and Prafulla Roy. Art director
Kartick Basu. There will be songs of Uttam Kumar, songs he loved to
sing and more...
A cultural function will be held after the prize giving ceremony. Singers like Srikanta Acharya, Indranil Sen, Raghab Chattopadhyay, Manomay Bhattacharya, Goutam Ghosh, Jojo, Rupankar and Thakurpukur Srijan Chhanda will perform there. Accompaniment: Dipankar Acharya and others. --
A. B.

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