Uma (2018 film)

In the film, a young girl, Uma (Sara Sengupta) living in Switzerland, is fighting for her life with a terminal disease. She wants to see Durga Puja of Kolkata, the biggest celebrated festival in Bengali culture. Himadri Sen, her father (Jisshu Sengupta) takes her to Kolkata to fulfill her dream by planning to set up a fake Durga Puja. Her father and family struggle much to make his daughter's dreams come true and find a director called Brahmananda Chakraborty (Anjan Dutt). The failed director sees this as his opportunity to create a masterpiece, by helping a dying girl. The director at first didn't agree to the proposal of the father. Later after remembering his past and how he couldn't make his son's life a beautiful one, the director goes to the residency of Jisshu Sengupta and gives a proposal to creating the Durga Puja after a brief talking. Jisshu Sengupta agrees in the proposal and the director goes on to create a false set of Durga Puja. During this, they face many problems to make Uma's dream true. In the end they all succeeds and uma and her father returns back to their home.[3]

The plot is based on true events surrounding the life and death of Evan Leversage, who lived in St George in Ontario, Canada.[1][4]

• Sara Sengupta[2] as Uma[5]
• Jisshu Sengupta[2] as Himadri Sen
• Anjan Dutt[2] as Brahmananda
• Srabanti Chatterjee[2] as Mariyam (Acting as Menoka, the mother of Uma)
• Sayantika Banerjee[2] as Menoka (Real mother of Uma)
• Rudranil Ghosh[2] as Gobindo
• Anirban Bhattacharya[6] as Mohitosh Sur
• Babul Supriyo as Mahesh [7]
• Gargi Roychowdhury as Medha
• Sujan Mukhopadhyay as Barun
• Nibedita Mukherjee as Meera
• Abhijit Guha
• Ambarish Bhattacharya
• Sayantani Guhathakurta
• Beas Dhar
• Srijit Mukherjee as Indra

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The music and lyrics of the film are composed by Anupam Roy.[9]

• Uma at IMDb