Download or read book The Gold Crown written by Bodhisatva and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to challenge the prevailing notion that gold represents prosperity and success by exploring its darker side. It begins with a family of weavers in ancient Eastern Bengal who, fleeing British oppression, settle in West Bengal near the Bhagirathi River. Their fortunes change when they rise from poverty to become a royal dynasty, thanks to a divine decree and the acquisition of a gold crown. However, the insatiable desire for the crown becomes their undoing, as it unleashes a series of devastating events that ultimately lead to their downfall. The author masterfully weaves together elements of the paranormal, toxic relationships, and unethical actions, all of which become magnetized by the power of gold. Throughout the narrative, the book also highlights the strength and resilience of feminine beings. It delves into the history of muslin, a fabric associated with femininity, to illustrate how women have used it as a symbol of protection and empowerment. By doing so, the book prompts readers to question the conventional perception of gold and its association with positive attributes. It invites us to explore a different perspective on the interplay between gold, power, and femininity. Through the mysteries and transformations embedded in the story, the author compels us to redefine our understanding of gold and its connection to feminine power.
Download or read book Portrait of a Director written by Marie Seton and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2003 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Satyajit Ray was India's first film-maker to gain international recognition as a master of the medium, and today he continues to be regarded as one of the world's finest directors of all time. This book looks at his work.
Download or read book Murders in Housing Complex written by Balarko Gupta and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2023-11-24 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aloka Pal inspected "Jalsaghar", for the engagement of her son Dr. Moni Pal and Bina Roy and was happy.At night, after dinner, Moni Pal was found dead, probably murdered, as it appeared.Who killed Moni Pal?Investigation team was led by LalBazar detective Mita Ghosh and her supporters.A few months later, Dipak Ghosh, a close friend of Bina was murdered in Jalsaghar as well. Has the same person murdered both?Or, are there multiple murderers?Won't you read the book to find the truth?
Download or read book The Cinema of Satyajit Ray written by Bhaskar Chattopadhyay and published by Westland Non-Fiction. This book was released on with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book AN ESSENTIAL BOOK FOR EVERY CINEPHILE’S LIBRARY Satyajit Ray is the tallest Indian figure in world cinema. Retrospectives across the globe, perhaps even more than at home, have kept his legacy alive. But how do we understand his cinema in the context of a vastly different world? What keeps great cinema from becoming dated? What are the particularities of Ray’s movies that cause them to endure? Bhaskar Chattopadhyay’s literary engagement with Ray’s cinema spans years. In this book, he revisits each one of Satyajit Ray’s thirty-nine feature films, shorts and documentaries to investigate their cinematic and social context. He also speaks to a number of the master’s collaborators as well as other directors and critics to truly understand Ray and his work. Packed with delightful anecdotes and fresh insights, The Cinema of Satyajit Ray is an essential book for every cinephile’s library.
Download or read book Satyajit Ray s The Chess Players and Postcolonial Film Theory written by Reena Dube and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-05-04 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indispensable for students of film studies, in this book Reena Dube explores Satyajit Ray's films, and The Chess Players in particular, in the context of discourses of labour in colonial and postcolonial conditions. Starting from Daniel Defoe and moving through history, short story and film to the present, Dube widens her analysis with comparisons in which Indian films are situated alongside Hollywood and other films, and interweaves historical and cultural debates within film theory. Her book treats film as part of the larger cultural production of India and provides a historical sense of the cross genre borrowings, traditions and debates that have deeply influenced Indian cinema and its viewers.
Download or read book Ray in the Looking Glass written by Satyajit Ray and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two interviews with the Indian film director, producer, and author.
Download or read book The Cinema of Satyajit Ray written by Darius Cooper and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-13 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Satyajit Ray is India's greatest filmmaker and his importance in the international world of cinema has long been recognised. Darius Cooper's study of Ray is the first to examine his rich and varied work from a social and historical perspective, and to situate it within Indian aesthetics. Providing analyses of selected films, including those that comprise The Apu Trilogy, Chess Players, and Jalsaghhar, among others, Cooper outlines Western influences on Ray's work, such as the plight of women functioning within a patriarchal society, Ray's political vision of the 'doubly colonised', and his attack and critique of the Bengali/Indian middle class of today. The most comprehensive treatment of Ray's work, The Cinema of Satyajit Ray makes accessible the oeuvre of one of the most prolific and creative filmmakers of the twentieth century.
Download or read book Bengali Cinema An Other Nation written by Sharmistha Gooptu and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharmistha Gooptu is a founder and managing trustee of the South Asia Research Foundation (SARF), a not-for-profit research body based in India. SARF’s current project SAG (South Asian Gateway) is in partnership with Taylor and Francis, and involves the creation of what will be the largest South Asian digital database of historical materials. She is also the joint editor of the journal South Asian History and Culture (Routledge) and the Routledge South Asian History and Culture book series.
Download or read book Rituparno Ghosh written by Sangeeta Datta and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An iconic filmmaker and inheritor of the legendary Satyajit Ray’s legacy, Rituparno Ghosh was one of the finest auteurs to emerge out of contemporary Bengal. His films, though rooted firmly in middle-class values, desires and aspirations, are highly critical of hetero-patriarchal power structures. From the very outset, Ghosh displayed a strong feminist sensibility which later evolved into radical queer politics. This volume analyses his films, his craft, his stardom and his contribution to sexual identity politics. In this first scholarly study undertaken on Rituparno Ghosh, the essays discuss the cultural import of his work within the dynamics of a rapidly evolving film industry in Bengal and more largely the cinematic landscape of India. The anthology also contains a conversation section (interviews with the filmmaker and with industry cast and crew) drawing a critical and personal portrait of this remarkable filmmaker.
Download or read book Cinema Emergence and the Films of Satyajit Ray written by Keya Ganguly and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-06-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although revered as one of the world’s great filmmakers, the Indian director Satyajit Ray is described either in narrowly nationalistic terms or as an artist whose critique of modernity is largely derived from European ideas. Rarely is he seen as an influential modernist in his own right whose contributions to world cinema remain unsurpassed. In this benchmark study, Keya Ganguly situates Ray’s work within the internationalist spirit of the twentieth century, arguing that his film experiments revive the category of political or "committed" art. She suggests that in their depictions of Indian life, Ray’s films intimate the sense of a radical future and document the capacity of the image to conceptualize a different world glimpsed in the remnants of a disappearing past.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema written by Ashish Rajadhyaksha and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 3189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The largest film industry in the world after Hollywood is celebrated in this updated and expanded edition of a now classic work of reference. Covering the full range of Indian film, this new revised edition of the Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema includes vastly expanded coverage of mainstream productions from the 1970s to the 1990s and, for the first time, a comprehensive name index. Illustrated throughout, there is no comparable guide to the incredible vitality and diversity of historical and contemporary Indian film.
Download or read book Forging Identities written by Zoya Hasan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume challenges the assumption that Muslims in India constitute a homogeneous community. Focusing specifically on gender issues, the contributors instead locate the Muslim womens community within the social, economic, and political developments that have taken place in the subcontinent, pre- and post-Independence, in order to examine how the
Download or read book Satyajit Ray written by Andrew Robinson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the life of the Indian director, and discusses the making of each of his films
Download or read book Ujjain written by Steffen Horstmann and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Ujjain Steffen Horstmanns book Ujjain is a remarkable collection of Ghazals in Eng-lish. Steffen uses an ancient form of poetry to express the sensibility of a modern day poet, and by doing so, he crosses the boundaries of languages, cultures, and traditions. Agha Shahid Ali couldnt have been more proud of his Shagird Steffen Horstmann, who has kept the torch burning, that he passed on to him after writing Call Me Ishmael Tonight. Kalpna Singh-Chitnis, author of Bare Soul The meditative and sublime states in Steffen Horstmanns radiant collection Ujjain render sonorous arias of cautionary tales for our time-those places of beauty, loss and pain collide into a longing for a vanished world. In these astute ghazals, myth and life and after-life send this poet on a path to claim where the self fits in: Of a world that vanished before I existed. Horstmanns luminous voice guides us to where beauty resides, Through the dark like a train there, These evocations torque into epiphanies rich with awe to light our way-And we are so much richer for this journey. Cynthia Atkins, author of In the Event of Full Disclosure Steffen Horstmann is a worthy student of Agha Shahid Ali in this collection of ghazals which embrace the East and West, as much at ease on Arjunas chariot as among the sacred tombs of Ithaka, or the very real foothills of Qhar. The natural world is incandescent: Bass glisten in rock pools like slick knives / With silver light glinting in their fast shadows, but it is The Diva of Jalsaghar that elegantly soars on melody as Air is scriptured by the syllabic flight / Of the voice of Begum Akhtar. A thoughtful and lyrical collection of ghazals written in English. Dipika Mukherjee, author of Shambala Junction
Download or read book Satyajit Ray The Man Who Knew Too Much written by Barun Chanda and published by Om Books International. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Satyajit Ray’s Seemabaddha (1971), a stinging indictment of the corporate rat race, remains one of the iconic film-maker’s most feted works. It starred debutant Barun Chanda, who won a special prize for his performance. Now, fifty years later, Barun Chanda documents his experience of working in the film and being directed by Satyajit Ray, someone he describes as ‘the man who knew too much’. But Satyajit Ray: The Man Who Knew Too Much is more than just an account of the making of a film.The author also presents a detailed and informative study of the various avatars of Ray as a film-maker: his sense of script and ear for dialogue, his instinctive grasp of the nuances of music, his penchant for casting non-actors and ability to get the perfect face for a role, his genius in designing a film’s title sequence. Insightful and informed by a rare understanding of the master’s works, this is an invaluable addition to the corpus of work on Satyajit Ray.
Download or read book Film Appreciation written by Utpal Datta and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book Film Appreciation is a translated version of the book Chalachitrar Rasaswadon, originally written in Assamese language by the national award-winning film critic and filmmaker Utpal Datta, and translated into English by Dr. Dipsikha Bhagawati as Film Appreciation would unfold a whole new world of understanding the aesthetic and technical dimensions of making and relishing a film. The book would function as a basic and comprehensive apparatus towards a finer understanding of a film, especially for the newbie filmmakers and for those, nourishing a keen interest in the domain.
