The film also starred Pradip Kumar, Sarika, Viju Khote, Benjamin Gilani, Vidya Sinha and Shriram Lagoo. Obviously, i t didn’t score at the box office despite being the last film that Uttam Kumar shot for and the only film where three of the most talented actors of Hindi cinema came together – the other two being Amol Palekar and Amjad Khan. The shooting for the film started in 1978 and it released in 1981, year after the acting legend passed away! Considering the wave of romantic stars sweeping across Bollywood, the film stuck out like a sore thumb. Plot Number 5 had no songs, no romantic scenes and the screenplay progressed at faster speed than what was considered ‘normal’ at that time. The Bengali acting legend died on Jat Tollygunge, Kolkata. He was taken to the best nursing home (as private hospitals were known then) called Belle View in Kolkata where the doctors tried in vain to revive his heart beat.

He suffered a massive heart-attack in his green room after he gave a shot for Ogo Bodhu Shundari. Uttam Kumar finished dubbing for the film in 1980 and returned to Kolkata to shoot his Bengali films. The film was a beautiful experiment where parallel cinema met mainstream cinema, an art that took almost 30 years to perfect in Bollywood! In the rest of the country, the film – with no songs, romantic scenes or a lead heroine – sank without a trace. The film was released in 1981 and ran for 10 weeks at Elite Cinema in Kolkata. Just a few months before his death, Uttam Kumar finished dubbing for a another crime thriller called Plot number 5. There he played a serial-killer who’s bound to a wheelchair. Uttam Kumar died while filming Ogo Bodhu Shundari.

You have probably heard that Uttam Kumar’s last film is a Bengali film called Ogo Bodhu Shundari.

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