Shilpi

Shilpi

Uttam Kumar, Suchitra Sen, Sikharani Bag


Heart rending film. The conflicts are all together here - poor vs rich, rural vs urban, high strata vs mere artist, love of two sensitive artists souls vs class conscious clans that won't allow stepping out, ... and the superlative pairing of Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen.

Seeing the two together 35:00 - 40:30, its difficult to realise this was a film being shot, the two were speaking rehearsed lines, were not really in love as completely as they seem to be so obviously! And yet, one is watching a film, not being a disembodied spirit looking at a life!

Sikharani Bag, the younger artist who plays the younger Suchitra, is familiar from Agnipariksha, and is lovelier here with a slightly more extended scope.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LcWoPdNi8GU