Tag Archives: Rituparno Ghosh

In a strange way Rituparno’s positioning in the Bengali cultural space has similarities and parallel with two most revered Bengali film-makers of all times – Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak. A tribute on the death anniversary of this path-breaking filmmaker.

The song is marvelously penned down in a broken dialect (of Sanskrit, Hindi, Maithili, Brajabuli and Bangla) and allows one to find resemblances with Bhanusingher Padabali.

To Rituparno Ghosh’s credit he brought a section of the Bengali audience back to the cinema halls – to me this is his greatest contribution to Bengali cinema and any history of it will remain largely incomplete unless this due tribute is paid to him.

Everything is in a state of making… eternally… nothing is ever complete… the same is true of the body and therefore, identity. It’s a continuous process.

The film's real power, however, lies in its ability to mould the text and serve contemporary cinematic purposes where the characters are much modernized, articulate and credible.

When voice becomes visible, it fails as a controlling entity of the narrative; rather the voice itself becomes uncontrollable and uncanny.