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Eminent Critique and Man of Letters Vidyarthy Chattergee debuts with his book Culcutta Films based on ace film maker Josey Joseph's film trilogy showcasing present, past and future of Kolkottan intellectual space and commoner's life. Its more on life than on his films and covers all controversial and sensitive issues India in general and Bengal in particular or for that matter Kolkotta pass past in his own experiences and observations. Brilliantly portraying the marginalized in flesh and bone and bravely speaking out that bitter truth at a time when autocracy reappears after its long rule in Britishraj pre-independence, its short stint in emergency and the advent and fall of communist monarchy in Bengal.
Award winning film maker and writer, Farooq Abdul Rahiman debuts with this franchisee to his own movie Kaliyachan, an adaptation of Mahakavi P Kunjiraman's Poem. Set in the erstwhile Valluvanadan cultural hot spot, on the banks of Bharatappuzha or Nila as it is commonly heard in literary world, Farooq Abdul Rahiman correlate the rhythm of rain and the pace of river to ever flowing agonies and ecstasies of his own characters depicted in his precedent movie Kaliyachan but portrays beyond film's canvas and conception.
Legendary playwright Kalidas Puthumana's collection of 5 dramas Nataka Panchakam includes his masterpiece Panappada that foretold the fall of emergency and played in stages under constant vigil by the state and its most obedient watch dogs. Spanning almost 50 years of his drama career, these 5 plays of which the fifth is yet to come on stage, is in continuum to the first play Panappada, in changing times and plights.