It is the climactic moment of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, where the eponymous hero is both Prometheus and Frankenstein. He has been driven by ambition to explore the most radical possibilities of nuclear science, but he has also already lost control of what he has created.
“Action” there is aplenty in this collection, with the tried-and-tested formulas of the box-office: adventure, sex and violence. It actually covers a wide range in the erotic arc – including domestic love, which underpins several stories.
The concept of ‘homelessness’ described so lucidly by Ranjani Mazumdar her seminal essay does not apply to the “outsider” as interpreted in and through the characters in the cinema of Bimal Roy.
At its depth, Why Stories Work holds an exhilarating argument. The inevitability of the narrative power of stories is revealed through the evolutionary past and our physiology. The way we experience ‘reality’ is influenced by our body, the will to survive.
It is the first ever full-length, Indian feature film that tackles the daring and fragile subject of sex reassignment surgery. This involves a series of life-threatening surgeries which Rudrajit Chatterjee (Rituparno Ghosh), an innovative and talented choreographer decides to go through even as he prepares to stage his interpretation of Tagore’s dance drama Chitrangada (1898).
Aribam Syam Sarma “obtained a Masters Degree in Philosophy from Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan. He is a philosopher. He searches for the aesthetic values of every object and understands it thoroughly. And it reflects into his films.
Sen’s heroines, especially in his later films are everyday workers who could well be typists and saleswomen who came out in droves after partition, gradually replacing the fast dwindling Anglo-Indian secretaries.
Arun Mukherjee of Chetana has translated the English version of this play to Bengali and this is the version that is being performed right now across the city. It is named Mahatma Bonaam Gandhi and it opens in the dark with the sound of three gunshots piercing the silence followed by the utterance of Hey Ram.
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