Bengali actress Uma Dasgupta died after a protracted sickness on Monday. The actress was hospitalised for a number of days. She was finest identified for her portrayal of Durga Roy within the iconic 1955 movie Pather Panchali, directed by Satyajit Ray. Celebrities from all walks of life have paid their shifting tribute to Uma Dasgupta. Trinamool Congress Chief (TMC) MP and creator Kunal Ghosh has shared a observe in Bengali for the actress on Fb. The observe roughly interprets to, “Durga from Pather Panchali is now actually gone.”
The information of Uma Dasgupta’s loss of life was confirmed by actor Chiranjit Chakraborty, in accordance with a Instances Now report. Chiranjit stated that he obtained the heartbreaking information from Uma Dasgupta’s daughter.
Based on stories, Uma Dasgupta by no means ventured into mainstream cinema after Pather Panchali. The movie, directed by Satyajit Ray, was an adaptation of Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s 1929 Bengali novel of the identical identify. Along with Uma Dasgupta, the undertaking featured Subir Banerjee, Kanu Banerjee, Karuna Banerjee, Pinaki Sengupta and Chunibala Devi in pivotal roles.
In October final 12 months, American filmmaker Martin Scorsese recalled watching the English-dubbed model of Pather Panchali (Tune of the Little Highway) on TV in New York. Recounting his expertise, the director advised PTI, “So from that time on, cinema opened to me many various worlds. I ponder what it could be wish to be a colonised particular person and a large a part of a colonised world that you simply dwell in.”
Martin Scorsese added, “And I stated, ‘Wait a minute, these are the folks I often see within the background of different movies. What is the distinction right here?’ The distinction is that this movie is being made by them, the true folks, and I am being launched to a different tradition and one other mind-set, a complete life and the universality of all of it. How all of us are, principally the identical as human beings.”
The primary movie in The Apu Trilogy, Pather Panchali, superbly portrays the childhood struggles of Apu and his elder sister Durga as they navigate the tough realities of their impoverished village life. Apu’s journey continues within the two subsequent movies of the trilogy: Aparajito (The Unvanquished, 1956) and Apur Sansar (The World of Apu, 1959).
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