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.
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