New Lifestyle in Bengoli Movie

Antaheen- a tale of new Relationship and lifestyle:
Antaheen(2009)- A Film By Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury
Cast: Aparna Sen (As Paromita), Sharmila Tagore (As Abhik’s Unt) Kalyan Roy (As Ranjan), Mita Vashisth (As Shalini Mehra), Shauvik Kundagrani (As Mr. Mehra), Rahul Bose (As Abhik) , Radhika Apte (As Brinda)
Director/Story: Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury
Music Director: Shantanu Moitra
Producer: Screenplay Films
Presented by: Mumbai Mantra
Lyrics: Anindya Chatterjee, Chandril Bhattacharya
Cenematography: Abhik Mukhopadhyay
Release date: January 23, 2009

Antaheen Specials:

1. Director Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury(directed his seconf film)
2. Aparna Sen with her writer husband Kalyan Ray for the first time in a movie
3. Rahul Bose is back to share screen space with Aparna Sen for the first time (He worked under the “director” Aparna before in 3 films)


Brief Review:
Just like the first film by Aniruddha Roy Chowchury – Anuranan, his second venture brings back another unique story/drama in Bengali Cinema that revolves around Kolkata, the daily life, relationships and so on. The film Antaheen revolves around 3 couples. Aparna Sen plays the role of a successful career woman; Rahul Bose plays the role of a cop. The film tries to capture the diffect states of human relationships -

1. Mita and Shauvik – married but they don’t love each other
2. Aparna Sen and Kalyan Roy – they are separated but still loves each other
3. Rahul’s Unt Sharmila Tagore lives by herself – still she is not alone. She shares some common things with Rahul. She gets close to some unknown caller who would call her numerous times a day.
4. Rahul Bose – an introvert cop but overly romantic Bengali guy. He starts chatting with someone and comes close to his chat-mate.
5. Radhika – a journalist with unique identity – She is the Chat-Mate of Rahul. She also works under Aparna Sen at Star Anand

Antaheen has been shot mostly in Calcutta. “It’s about relationships and the role gadgets play in relationships. People are facing various difficulties on their life Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury brilliantly pick them and shown into this movie which we don't figure it out. There’s love, waiting, distance between two people and love that develops from a distance.” – the director said. We must all see the movie. During a period of romance and actions films flooding the Tollywood, Antaheen is simply like some frsh air. Unique in its treatment. Aniruddha Roychowdhury’s direction deserves merit. He previously made ‘Anuranan’ (Resonance), a film that dealt with urban relationships. It ends hitting the perfect note. There are many sub-plots in the movie and he handles most of them brilliantly. ‘Antaheen’ is very emotional movie and to sustain the emotional quotient till the very end is commendable. He also extracts great performances from the cast especially the newcomers. There is no doubt Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury will add some value un Bangla film industry infuter and of course he will have long career of Bengali Film direction.

‘Antaheen’ is a collage of love stories, without saying the most abused phrase in Hindi cinema ‘I love you’or in Bengali 'aami tomake bhalobashi' even once. Perhaps that is why I identified with it so much. The love shown here seems real, one that can happen in our lives and change them forever. Love comes in many different ways at various points of the lives of the characters in ‘Antaheen’. Love is watching Kolkata in the rains, a de-familiarized landscape. Love is Persian poet Rumi’s love poem written on the glass divider and rain drops falling on it. Love is talking about a kite trapped in an antenna. Love is also patiently waiting for the phone to ring so that one can hear the voice of the unknown caller. Love is also a phone call to one’s separated wife and requesting her if he can come over and stay with her for a few days just to feel that emotional attachment and the sense of belonging. Love is also a nod from a busy and indifferent businessman to his servant to give his wife medicine, when she suffers from migraine.
Moments like these make ‘Antaheen’. It is in all these fragments that we understand the totality of love in this film.

The editing compliments the cinematography perfectly. There are frames where the camera lingers on for couple of seconds more before its transition to the next scene which makes them extra special. The pace is slow. But that is ideal for a movie like this. It is almost a contrast to the fast paced urban life in the movie. I think the slow pacing is deliberate to bring out the pathos of loneliness in the middle of urbanity.

The soundtrack of ‘Antaheen’ is awesome! The songs with their picturization are special, especially ‘Jao Pakhi’ and Pherari Mon. Also, the songs merge into the narrative very smoothly.

Talking about performances, Antaheen has a stellar star cast with performers like Aparna Sen, Sharmila Tagore and Rahul Bose. There are also two debutants, Radhika Apte and Kalyan Roy. Let’s talk about the debutants first. Both Radhika Apte and Kalyan Roy are phenomenal. They are so good that one forgets about Aparna Sen and Rahul Bose although they have similar screen time as the debutants. Radhika Apte’s eyes speak a thousand words. Her performance is one of the most spontaneous performances in recent times. Kalyan Roy as the laidback, separated husband who loves books, foreign wines and Sensex is equally brilliant. It is the star performers who falter to an extent. Rahul Bose is his usual self. Also, his one dimensional character didn’t help. Aparna Sen on the other hand has an interesting role. I don’t think she played a corporate lady before. It was a new look for her too. Yet, she looks a tad tired with her performance. Sharmila Tagore is wasted in a small role. Except one scene where she talks about her story, all she does is bring Jasmine tea.
The biggest flaw of the movie is the endorsements which keep coming in almost every frame of the movie like a pop-up. It becomes an irritant and makes some scenes a laughing stock. Also certain scenes went a little overboard and became melodramatic. Rahul Bose quoting Jim Morrison in a hostage situation is hard to digest.
The movie becomes the journey of all the characters on a self discovery trip and long for love. Some end alone, some together. But the longing remains.

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Classic Movie "Sunrise"

Movie: Sunrise(A Song Of Two Humans)

Staring: Lon Chaney, Mary Pickford, Clara Bow

Director: F.W. Murnau

The classic romantic movie ever. When I watched it I found this movie is a masterpiece. I liked it and recommend it to watch....

"Once picked in Cahiers du Cinema as ‘the most beautiful film in the world,’ Sunrise remains a virtual motherlode of expressive silent movie-making techniques. While the story is bone simple, its telling is anything but. With his gracefully floating camera, montages, dissolves and multiple-imaging, Murnau creates a world of suggestive visual poetry that exists somewhere between dramatic enactment and idealized fantasy."

That’s Geoff Pevere in the Toronto Star, referring to F. W. Murnau’s melodrama Sunrise (aka Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans), made for Fox in 1927. In the film, female Human Janet Gaynor (wearing a godawful blond wig) plays the country girl whose beloved male Human (George O’Brien) is seduced by an Inhuman city vamp (Margaret Livingston).

Many find this tale of lust, love, sorrow, and ultimate redemption (the happy ending was insisted upon by the studio) one of the greatest films of all time. I’ve seen it three times, and — despite several good moments, Charles Rosher and Karl Struss‘ poetic lenses, and Murnau’s camera virtuosity — I’ve never been able to warm up to either the characters or the storyline. Personally, if I were O’Brien, I’d definitely have dumped Janet Gaynor for sultry Margaret Livingston. (True, I wouldn’t have tried to strangle Gaynor, though I’d most likely have set her wig on fire.)

Janet Gaynor, one of the biggest stars of the 1920s and 1930s, could be quite appealing — Lucky Star and Street Angel come to mind — but I find her performance in Sunrise to be more than a little cloying. She and the usually likable George O’Brien are supposed to be archetypes, but they — and Livingston’s vamp — come across as one-dimensional stereotypes. Whenever that happens, the meanies usually have the upper hand, as stereotypical goodness tends to be insufferably dull.

At the very first Academy Awards ceremony, Sunrise won three awards: Best Actress (Gaynor, who also won for Street Angel and 7th Heaven), Best Cinematography (unfortunately, the currently available restored print of Sunrise still looks like the dupe of a dupe of a dupe — the original nitrate print is apparently lost), and Unique and Artistic Picture. That was the only time the "Unique and Artistic Picture" award, basically a "best art-house film award," was handed out. Sunrise reportedly won in that category because MGM head Louis B. Mayer, one of the Academy founding members, refused to allow his studio’s downbeat money-loser The Crowd to win. (Or so later said The Crowd director, King Vidor – whose film, in my opinion, should indeed have won.)

About Class Detail

Class is about:
This class is about how to interpret a Text. Analyzing the text in this course some major point are also discussed. Like Denotation, Connotation, Myth, Representation, Men and Women in the Media, Power and Knowledge etc

My Knowing in this Course:
Text is a combination of image and word. Which I realized from this course. Word analyzing is not that much difficult but image analyzing so difficult. we can analyze an image in so many ways. An image can have different denotation, connotation, Signifier, Signified so that, it is very difficult to interpret. But in this course we learn some technique by which we can analyze the text.

Genre

Favorite Movie:


http://www.impawards.com/1981/gods_must_be_crazy.html

The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)

Director: Jamie Uys
Writer: Jamie Uys (writer)
Genre:
Action, Comedy
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080801/


https://www.allposters.com/-sp/Spider-Man-Posters_i2622495_.htm

Spiderman(USA)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi and Thriller
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145487/


http://www.filmjabber.com/movie/details/1480/photos/1/

Around the World in 80 Days
Genre: Action, Comedy, Family
Director: Frank Coraci
Writer: David Titcher, Tim McCanlies, Steven Peros
Cast: Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan, Cecille de France, Jim Broadbent, Kathy Bates, John Cleese, Sammo Hung, Johnny Knoxville, Ian McNiece, Karen Mok, Rob Schneider, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Wim Wenders, Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Richard Branson
http://www.filmjabber.com/movie/preview/1480/


Favorite Books:


https://www.allposters.com/-sp/Spider-Man-Posters_i2622495_.htm

The Old Man and The Sea
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Country: United States
Language: English
Genre: Tragedy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Man_and_the_Sea

Gora
By Rabindranath Tagore
Genre: Political, Romantic, Logical

Garvadharini
By Shomoresh Majumder
Genre: Young Fantasy, Thriller

Colonialism

Definition of Colonialism:
Colonialism is a practice of domination, which involves the subjugation of one people to another. One of the difficulties in defining colonialism is that it is difficult to distinguish it from imperialism. Frequently the two concepts are treated as synonyms. Like colonialism, imperialism also involves political and economic control over a dependent territory. Turning to the etymology of the two terms, however, provides some suggestion about how they differ. The term colony comes from the Latin word colonus, meaning farmer. This root reminds us that the practice of colonialism usually involved the transfer of population to a new territory, where the new arrivals lived as permanent settlers while maintaining political allegiance to their country of origin. Imperialism, on the other hand, comes from the Latin term imperium, meaning to command. Thus, the term imperialism draws attention to the way that one country exercises power over another, whether through settlement, sovereignty, or indirect mechanisms of control. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/colonialism/

Colonialism is the extension of a nation's sovereignty over territory beyond its borders by the establishment of either settler or exploitation colonies in which indigenous populations are directly ruled, displaced, or exterminated. Colonizing nations generally dominate the resources, labor, and markets of the colonial territory, and may also impose socio-cultural, religious, and linguistic structures on the indigenous population (see also cultural imperialism). It is essentially a system of direct political, economic, and cultural intervention and hegemony by a powerful country in a weaker one. Though the word colonialism is often used interchangeably with imperialism, the latter is sometimes used more broadly as it covers control exercised informally (via influence) as well as formal military control or economic leverage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonialism

Image of Colonialism:

http://www.ralphmag.org/DH/lions.html


http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/history/bi/hst388-thomas/


http://www.flagshipgames.com/RampantColonialism.htm


http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/abolition/black_imagery_gallery_04.shtml


http://www.easternct.edu/personal/faculty/mcneilk/Victoriansyll.html


http://www.chopra.com/files/images/british.jpg

Power Vs Knowledge

Power and knowledge always related to each other. In our society we always see how knowledge use power as a weapon. One the other hand power holders are also controlling the knowledgeable or wisdom person for their own purpose. So, power and knowledge are inter-related.

In the 14th December 1971 Pakistan wanted to killed all the intellectual people of our country. It was a last attempt by an occupation army to leave a nation they had been unable to subdue, crippled intellectually and culturally. They think Knowledge is the only things which can be a protection of Bengali people. If we Destroy it then Bangladesh will be powerless country and we'll be winner. But they were not gain because of mass people of Bangladesh. Although Bengal people have no knowledge power at all, but they have unity and these unity become the power for the them.

Pakistan used their knowledge as well as their power over the people of Bangladesh. They did it because authority was in favor of them and it was the inspiration for used their knowledge for their erroneous entity of Pakistanies are into this country.

Human nature is like that, they always tried to use knowledge as a weapon or power. For that reason knowledge and power become contradictory issue for each other. If knowledge used for to do good things or invent somethings then again it become an weapon or power.


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As we see in the movie "Enemy of the State", power comes through the knowledge and also knowledge is used by the power. In this movie when we see the hero Will Smith become a doll of agencies when agencies had the power. After that Will Smith gain the knowledge and he became a powerful man. Now he has the weapon or power which can help him to protect himself and able to destroy agency bureaucratic network.