A looking back, an early start up..(18)
To the readers,An inspiration from new era of Indian film
I did this acrylic painting on canvas in 1991 when I was involved with my friends to review films, theatre, music, literature, poetry and of course the political discussion/debates on national or international context to observe the relationship between form and content or the language pattern that provided a logical expression by the cultural practices of late 50s to 80s. So many strong personalities in theatre, film, literature had a great affinity to the social realism, they were keen interested to focus the most critical condition of pre and post independence era of the society, the crisis of the time, where a socio-economic and political turmoiling situation also influenced the emergence of cultural hegemony to cling the arena of different kinds of practices.
Ritwik Kumar Ghatak
Ritwik in his last film Jukti Takko Gappo ( The reason, argument and story)
A scene from Titas ekti nadeer naam ( A river called Titas)
Govt. of West Bengal. I viewed Titas in this retrospective and I was begone enormously by his film, the sequence after sequence, frames and shots of the production moved me to look through the lens of my mind and becoming a fanatic I started to explore the cinematic language that inspired me to pick up a single frame from huge multiple frames (the mad man’s reaction after getting back his lost wife) which was focussed to be painted on canvas by me as pre-conditioned aesthetical relationship to the visual language; I used the figurative composition set in “ a vortex of images that settle down upon close scrutiny into recognizable shapes ”, patches of colors or minimal deformity that could identify the figurations. No matter what was being tried to be drawn but an emotional effort was the vital driving force to manipulate entire composition and I got much more appreciation from my friend circle, some of them were interested to collect this painting.
Nilotpal Sinha The mad man with his wife Acrylic on canvas 60 ” x 72 ” 1991
” His basic technique is to apply short dabs of colours, broken lines that move side by side to create a vortex of images that settle down upon close scrutiny into recognizable shapes. At times Sinha comes into the realm of abstraction without really snapping links with formalism.” –The Statesman, Saturday, 29 June 1991
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Ritwik Kumar Ghatak – Marxist thinker and film maker Ritwik Kumar Ghatak (b.1925) was the most important film director and he played a significant role in the movement of new Indian cinema of late 50s. His first production Nagorik (The Citizen) was directed by him in the year 1952 and the last two productions he directed Jukti Takko Gappo (The Reason, Argument, Story) in 1974 and Titas Ekti Nadeer Naam (A River Called Titas) in 1973 after the new born country Bangladesh in 1971. The Mother-Cult and the Collective Consciousness based script and direction signify the role of content and film-treatment. His most successful films are Meghe Dhaka Tara (The Cloud-Capped Star) (1960), Komol Gandhar (E-Flat) (1961), Subarnorekha (Golden Lining), Jukti Takko Gappo (The Reason, Argument, Story), Ajantrik (1958), Titas Ekti Nadeer Naam (A River Called Titas) (1973) etc. He died in 1976 at the age of 50.
For more info please go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritwik_Ghatak
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