PM Review

Watching Kagaz Ke Phool [1959] immediately after Pyaasa [1957] is a roller-coaster experience. While Pyaasa’s Bijoy dedicates himself to his artistic journey leaving every precious thing in his life, Kagaz Ke Phool’s Suresh surrenders himself to every destructive thing in his life leaving his artistic expedition.  It seems they originated from the same source of creative passion then branches out to the different channels. Thus, Pyassa ends with the beginning of the future path with the hope of a new life and Kagaz ke Phool ends with the ending of the present path with the despair of death.   I have found some semblance of Suresh’s contour of his passionate life for arts and compact intricacy of his private and professional life in Guru’s Kagaz Ke Phool [1959] with Alamgir Kabir’s Lenin in Rupali Saikate [1979]. The same vibes I have noticed between Bijoy from Guru’s Pyassa [1957] & Lenin from Kabir’s Surjya Kannya [1975]. Even the years of the theatrical releases unin...

                               “Neech jati ki ladaki aur naam rakha diya Sujata”                                                                -Charu, foster mother of Sujata   As soon as I heard this dialogue from Bimal Roy’s cult-classic film Sujata [1959], I felt a butterfly has just whirling around my throat in the midst of dark night. It is one of the overstated punchlines we used to say during any gossips, debates and chatting but this one echoed a supple tone and mood that I can’t just deny but pause the laptop screen and thinking an analogous temperament in Rabindranath’s novel Gora written in 1910 on the backbiting caste rituals in Hinduism. The spiteful sequence of Sujata after the revelation of her identity as a Dalit [the untouchable...

  বঙ্কিমের সুশোভিত গদ্য ধারা আর মধুসূদনের সুলোলিত পদ্যা বলীর সহিত সদ্ভাব বজায় থাকিলে শ্রীকমলকুমারের বিভূতিময় বর্নণাভঙ্গি, শব্দবন্ধ কিংবা পদাবিন্যা সকে অতিশয় জলদগম্ভীর অনুভূত হওয়া সমুচিত নহে। সাধু ভাষার বর্নণার সাথে যশোবতী ও বৈজুনাথের কথ্য ভাষায় সংলাপে সকাল থেকে মোহিত ছিলাম। অন্তর্জলী যাত্রা কমলকুমার মজুমদার নহবৎ শারদ সংখ্যা, ১৯৫৯।