"MONER MANUSH" Bengali Film Review: A Gautam Ghose Classic

4. December 2010: Moner Manush is a Bengali film directed by Gautam Ghose with Prosenjit Chatterjee as Lalon Fakir. Moner Manush essays the journey of life Lalon by a young man until he is around ninety. to illuminate an extraordinary film, the stars of Prosenjit in another dimension.

Cast and Crew:

Producer: Gautam Kundu (India) and Habibur Rahman and Faridur Reza Sagar (Bangladesh)
Story: Sunil Gangopadhyay
Written, directed, camera, music, choreography: Goutam Ghose
Production Design: Samir Chanda
Sound: Anup Mukhopadhyay
Editorial: Moloy Bandopadhyay
Cast: Prosenhit Chatterjee, Rasul Islam Asad, Priyangshu Chatterjee, Gulshan Ara Champa, Paoli Dam, Shubhra Kundu, Rokeya Prachi, Chanchal Chowdhury, Syed Hasan Imam, Shantilal Mukhopadhyay, Tathoi, etc.
Release Date: 3 December 2010
Rating: 8 / 10
Where shall I find him, "My soul man?
I lost it and walk the world to look through it,
Where shall I find him? My soul man?
Lalon Moner Manush in Phokir

Moner Manush - EXCELLENT
Lalon Phokir regarded as Baul of Bauls. Bauls sing their own songs of praise to the Lord. Lalon was probably born in the late 1700s in that part of the Nadia district now in Kushtia, Bangladesh, and died in 1890. He lived an amazingly long, productive and pious life, gathering disciples and composing hundreds of songs. Lalon rejected the division of society into communities protested and satirizes religious fundamentalism of all kinds, the only idea that we can get from what he really looked like from a sketch of Tagore Tagore Jyotirindranath brother to 5 May did in 1889, 17 months ago Lalon died. He composed 1,000 songs, has been pursued of which only 600 are. Legend has it that Lalon was a born Hindu and became a Muslim. In very young, Lalon was seated on a pilgrimage with friends, but contracted smallpox. He was left for dead. A Sufi practitioners saved him. If Lalon came home, his mother and wife refused to return it, because he had lived with a Muslim. Although they are within their own poetry sects and sub-sects differ, members of the Baul Phokir faith in all groups on subtle details of the exercise. However, they are unanimous in recognizing the Lalon Phokir be the best at their best.




Moner Manush-Prosenjit as Baul Singer
Moner Manush essays the journey of life Lalon by a young man until he is around ninety. The film begins with a Jyotirindranath Tagore on Tagore family that the land had on the Lalon Phokir aakhara heard (now in Bangladesh) Draw a sketch of Lalon. The two get into a discussion spanning Lalon arguments about religion, faith, humanity, life, death and so on in bojra (a luxury boat) from Jyotirindranath. The narrative moves back and forth between the debate in the present (1889) and Lalon begin life as a young man only in the music and songs and come back to the end of the discussion with Jyotirindranath puzzled and somewhat interested in his thinking by the transformed thought, philosophy and ideology of this semi-literate, much maligned yet revered old man, who said all through his poetry and his music and his singing. These frequent cutting back to the present not jar or make it in any way as the batch processing and the narrative are masterful in their grip over the narrative.

The river, still alive, infinite, timeless, both as a metaphor for life, death, relationships, faith, love and a parallel with the river-like life Lalon's, where he is born in his view to a two man in the same life . He was born Hindu die floated and rejected by his own and then with a second life of a Muslim midwife who saved him from the water of the river, with its Hindu employer. The sound, the music, the lyrics and the songs - all 32 of them are in the movies, and narrative space woven into the film so great that the film is not a musical. The music and the songs are almost unnecessary substitutes for dialogue.

Ghose's cinematography stands alone, tall and regal, lyrical and poetic, romantic and spiritual right through the film. But not overshadow his directorial command for a single minute. The beautiful landscape of the Shimultala, the shining moon in the river water on a full moon against dancing with candles lit interiors Jyotirindranath's bojra, the beautifully staged sequence of the singing baul of women against the background of the men on stilts, a boat rowers on the river as those that break the oars in a joyful song disks for a period brought on camera alive. The same applies to the background noise with the sounding of the crickets nights against the undertow of lapping water of the river, or the whine of a dog in the distance.

Prosenjit as Lalon has a power he never perhaps been able to surpass. With this single performance, he has all his critics for a lifetime and a little more to silence. You can not even recognize him as the star Prosenjit after a time he is so immersed in his performance. It reminds us of the Hollywood actor Jeff Bridges, who considers each service, a product of meditation and deconstruction. Priyanghsu Chatterjee is dignity personified as Tagore. Shantilal Mukherjee is very good in a cameo. Bibi Russell costumes for Lalon seem realistic at the time. Samir Chanda could be yet another National Award for his superlative production design in rebuilding a whole akhaara in Bangladesh draw without a single reference to win.

Shah Latif and Khuda Baksh, who have done playback for Lalon beautiful. Although their voices speaking voice Prosenjeet's are distant, they do not jar. The same applies to Farida Parveen, the famous singer who lent her voice in Bangladesh each dance number on screen lip-sync Paoli Dam. There is no notation of Lalon songs. Sun Ghosh tried to get the songs from the present Baul master Kushtia, the birthplace of Lalon. Moner Manush She picks up a different spiritual level as a whole, as it discovered another feature of the cinema - the ideology of the men and women from intolerance to tolerance change, from religion to humanity, of love and hatred of God into something that reached about God as we know, and to limit it.

"MONER MANUSH" Bengali Film FIRST LOOK

First Look - Gautam Ghose's Moner Manush: Bengali Moner Manush film is now complete. Few Bengali filmmakers have on the sensitive and somewhat controversial area to tread the Baul tradition. Filmmaker Gautam Ghose has done it. If to believe reports, and the full commitment of Lalon Phokir Prosenjit plays the main character set in, is to be probed deeply, then Moner Manush is a film we looked at for overlapping many genres of contemporary cinema, the genre is the bottom line.


Moner Manush-Prosenjit as Baul Singer

Moner Manush Bengali film - Prosenjit
It is always a rough calculation that the Baul Baul, Lalon Phokir, probably born in 1774 in the part of the Nadia district now in Kushtia, Bangladesh. He died in 1890. He composed 1,000 songs can be traced of which only 600th Lalon rejected the division of society into communities protested and satirizes religious fundamentalism of all kinds, it is also an ethnographic film, as it traces the anthropological and cultural history of this ethnic sect of wandering minstrels, the Bauls of Bengal, its progressive and secular faith to spread through their singing and music. It can be defined as a historical film, as it spans a period and a geography of Indian cinema is not the way it was allocated in this film mapped. It is also informative and educational institutions, because there is light on a little-known sect shed their unique ideology and way of life and their resurrection in modern times through cinema, theater, literature and so on.Moner Manush is modern and current as it calls at a time when India ridden pockets of fundamentalist and intolerant groups about their area of peace, harmony and peaceful tolerance of all religions.


Moner Manush Bengali film with Prosenjit
The film can be categorized as a musical, because "it has 32 songs that are part of the verbal interaction between and among the characters," says Gautam Ghose."There is no notation of Lalon songs. That's what pushed me to Lalon village of Kushtia in Bangladesh, to learn about the notation. I adapted songs that were sung by the existing Phokirs there. Latif Shah Khuda Baksh and playback for Lalon rendered in my film. Shahzad Firdous has written the lyrics. Farida Parveen, the famous singer from Bangladesh, has lent her voice to the individual lip-sync dance number on the screen by Paoli Dam, "added Ghosh. Paoli plays Komli, a young widow who takes refuge in Lalon's akhra in Simultala. "Playing Komli has a learning experience. It was difficult to run with a pitcher full of water. It was harder to walk up the bamboo steps to the river. Komli has a relationship with Lalon. Once, on a cold December morning, I have a bath take in the river and walk along a paved forest road Bania with the pitcher had to rest a hip, "says Paoli, who is on the fast track to success today in all types of films in Bengali cinema. plan on the first day of Bangladesh, while they were heading towards Sunamganj road and struck the mini-bus and a car of her mother and hairdresser Kalpana Pradhan injured. "I was stunned in the first days of the shoot because I was crazy with worry," added Paoli.




Moner Manush Bengali film by Gautam Ghosh
Says Prosenjit Who went into a kind of professional Sanyas for five months to prepare for the role of Lalon, "My job with the character of my worldview and my philosophy has changed I have learned that under the seeming troubled mind and wandering among his repertoire. of spiritual songs he composed, was the basic philosophy of mankind Lalon about everything on hold. They had female companions, but it was such a fundamental biological desire like hunger for food. Lalon believed that would emotionally attached him take his final destination, the search for unity with the Almighty. It took some time for me again and again to the floor, after I came back. "Golam Phokir a Nadia-based Baul, which doubles a cameo in the film, has played as Prosenjit coach in this unusual role, . "I taught him to dance and how the ektara Bauls play," he says with a smile peeks out of his gray beard.

Bangladesh Chanchal actor, who plays in theater, Lalon Moner Manush in Kalua friend. Zeeshan of Bangladesh plays the teenager Lalon. Others will cast acting in Champa, and Tathoi Raisul Azad Islam from Bangladesh. Moner Manush towards the beginning of the 19th to the 20th Century set. It begins with Lalon as a teenager, who goes home to, if he is in his 50s, and then ending the 45-50 age range, as he is very old. Bibi Russell, the internationally renowned fashion designer, the cozy gamchha voted into a fashion statement has done the costumes for Moner Manush with Gautam wife Nilanjana. "This is my first movie project. I have is Prosenjit khadi kurta and dhoti given that he wrapped around like a lungi. I got him a Tulsi Mala, a gift that I knew of a Baul I, as a lucky charm for the movie informed Bibi.

The Chilapata forests in North Bengal, covering a four-hour ride from Jalpaiguri in the Indian part of the schedule of locations. The scenes were shot on the banks of the river Bania. Samir Chanda, who has won the National Award for Best Art Direction several times, created a akhra with a few thatched cottages and three houses. "The hardest part of my planning for this film was the right props. We had had won a hard time finding a sarinda, a now-extinct musical instrument of the Baule. To create the architecture of Lalan time is another challenge. There was almost no frame of reference, so we stood on every available little rest and had to leave had done from imagination. A project like Moner Manush does not appeal to me for the money or the budget we need to work in comparison to the budget in Bollywood. It takes for me the special thrill I get from the work in these films. "

Ghose expects to release the film, a joint venture of Rose Valley Productions of India and Bangladesh Ashirbad films, from late April in Bangladesh and India. The film is a loose adaptation of Sunil Gangopadhyay's Moner Manush But Ghose has invested it with his own personal perspectives.