Oh Kolkata Team
Oh yes, no pair can top the list but this iconic one! Uttom Kumar and Suchitra Sen are like the most celebrated pair ever existed in the history of Bengali cinema! The impact of their reel life romance made such a strong impression to bong mass that even after decades the pair has not lost its charm and charisma! The ever-green pair started ruling the Bengali silver screen during the late ’50s and continued their unparalleled reign for almost 2 decades. Starting from “Sare Chuattor†as an instant hit reel life couple, this evergreen pair gifted the Bengali film industry numerous hits like ‘Harano Sur’, ‘Shapmochon’, ‘Saptapadi’, ‘Pathe Holo Deri’, ‘Haar mana Haar’, ‘Indrani’, and many more! The Jodi can be defined as the champion of on-screen romance and is almost worshiped as the epitome of love and romance still now!
Another evergreen on-screen pair without whose mention the list will remain incomplete is undoubted of Saumitra Chatterjee and Sharmila Tagore! Yes, the Kashmir Ki Kali of Bollywood was also quite famous in the Bengali film industry! And her dazzling pair goes just outstanding with the handsome Saumitra Chatterjee. The credit of pairing these two surely goes to the great Satyajit Ray who gifted Bengali people one of their most iconic romantic pair for eternity! The chemistry between these two actors is not only adored for their romance but also gained high critical acclamation around the globe. Be it ‘Apur Sansar’, ‘Aranyer Din-Ratri’ or ‘Barnali’ the pair had given a tough fight to the evergreen pair of Uttom-Suchitra ever since their introduction! The strong emotional on-screen presentation of these two actors in ‘Apur-Sangsar’ created such a strong impression that even after so many decades newlywed middle-class couples seek for romantic inspiration from this ever-green pair!
This pair can be defined as the king and queen of the 90’s Bengali silver-screen. The pair of Prasenjit Chatterjee and Rituparna Sen Gupta can be connoted as the second most commercially successful on-screen couple who ruled the kingdom of the Bengali film industry during the ’90s and early 2000. This romantic pair was once the only commercially successful pair of Bengali cinema. With numerous commercial hits like ‘Swasur Bari Zindabaad’, ‘Madhur Milan’, ‘Bolo Sudhu Ekbar’, ‘Tumi Ele Tai’ and many more the pair gained first critical acclamation in Rituparno Ghosh’s film ‘Utsob’. This iconic pair especially renowned for their on-screen romance had stopped working together in 2001 after their film ‘Jamai Babu Zindabaad’ heat the cinema halls of Bengal. Bong cinema lovers missed the iconic couple until 2016 when Shiboprosad Mukharjee and Nandita Das paired them again in their film ‘Praktan’. The massive success of that film proved that this iconic pair is just as graceful as before and will never lose their importance with changing time!
We are going to wrap this write-up by mentioning the most critically successful and compatible pair of contemporary Bengali film industry. And no pair can take the place but the highly romantic pair of Parambrata Chatterjee and Raima Sen! The actor-director Parambrata Chatterjee and the granddaughter of great Suchitra Sen (i.e. Raima) perhaps represented every aspect of contemporary love and relationship in with on-screen performances. With numerous commercials as well as critically successful films in their bags, this pair seems like a perfect fit for the real-life presentation of contemporary love! Starting their journey as a reel life couple with Anjan Dutt’s ‘The Bong Connection’ Raima and Parambrata played numerous roles as couples in films like ‘Bastusaap’, ‘Haoa Bodol’, ‘Baishe Shabon’, ‘Nishi Japon’, ‘Maach, Mishti and More’ etc. The pair’s chemistry is adored by Bengali mass of every age group and is still growing stronger with films like ‘Chaya Manush’ and ‘Reunion’.
