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Udayer Pathe, Bimal Roy s first film, revolutionized Indian cinema. Hailed as a pioneer by Satyajit Ray, he was perhaps the first to bring shades of grey to the black-and-white screen. Roy s spare storytelling and nuanced understanding of the human condition are reflected in classics like Devdas, Sujata and Madhumati. His ability to illuminate ordinary characters like Shambhu in Do Bigha Zamin and Kalyani in Bandini, is attested to by their being a part of popular memory even to this day. The Man Who Spoke in Pictures is not just a eulogy to this great director, but also an insight into Roy, the man, the director and his art. The auteur s little-known Bengal phase is chronicled by Mahasweta Devi and Amit Chaudhuri, as well as Tapan Sinha, Amit Bose and other greats of cinema who trace his journey from cinematographer to director. His Bombay years are recorded through a collection of analyses and anecdotes from leading literary and cinematic luminaries, including Nayantara Sahgal, Gulzar, Naseeruddin Shah and Khalid Mohammed. The final section examines Roy from the outsider s perspective, with articles by Meghnad Desai, Rachel Dwyer and Paula Mayhew.

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Publié par	Penguin Books Ltd
Date de parution	15 juillet 2009
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9788184758184
Langue	English

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The Man Who Spoke in Pictures
Bimal Roy
Edited By Rinki Roy Bhattacharya
About the Contributors
A.K. B IR is a cinematographer and director based in Mumbai. He was also a part of Richard Attenborough s Gandhi (1982).
A DITYA B HATTACHARYA , Bimal Roy s grandson, branched into film-making with the film Raakh , which received critical acclaim and two National Awards.
A MIT B OSE , editor and film-maker, worked as editor for Bimal Roy. He has also edited films like Godaan (1963) and Courtesans of Bombay (1983).
A MIT C HAUDHURI writes poetry, fiction, critiques and is also an exponent of Hindustani classical music. His first novel A Strange and Sublime Address received the Betty Trask Award.
A NWESHA A RYA is currently pursuing her PhD in the Department of the Study of Religions at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Anwesha has also contributed to Behind Closed Doors: Domestic Violence in India (edited by Rinki Bhattacharya, 2004).
A SIT B ARAN , the singing star of yester years, is best remembered for his roles in Protishruti (1942), Kashinath (1943), Pratyabartan (1951), Bondhu (1958), Smriti Tuku Thak (1959), Antoni Firingi (1967) and Sri Sri Ramkrishna Kothamrito (1982).
B HAWANA S OMAAYA is a prolific writer on Indian cinema, particularly Bollywood. She was the former editor of the Screen . She has also authored the book Bachchanalia , a tribute to Amitabh Bachchan.
C.S. L AKSHMI is currently director of SPARROW (Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women). A renowned Tamil writer who writes under the pseudonym Ambai , she has written Seven Seas and Seven Mountains: The Singer and the Song (2000).
C HIDANANDA D AS G UPTA is a film-maker, film critic and film historian. He was one of the founders of Calcutta Film Society with Satyajit Ray in 1947. His works include the book Seeing Is Believing: Selected Writings on Cinema and Selected Poems , a translation of the poetry of Jibanananda Das.
C LARE W ILKINSON -W EBER is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Washington State University, Vancouver. She is the author of Embroidering Lives: Women s Work and Skill in the Lucknow Embroidery Industry as well as several articles about costume in Hindi films.
G ULZAR is a poet, lyricist and director. He has directed films like Mausam (1976) and Maachis (1996), which won the National Award. As lyricist, he won the National Award for Mera kuchh saaman in Ijaazat and Yaara sili sili in Lekin . As writer, he received the Sahitya Akademi Award for Dhuan , a collection of short stories in Urdu. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2004 and shared the Academy Award for Best Original Song Jai Ho ( Slumdog Millionaire ) in 2009.
J AHNU B ARUA , nine-time National Award winner, earned national and international recognition through his third film Halodhia Charaye Baodhan Khai (The Catastrophe). He was awarded the Padma Shri in 2003.
K ISHORE C HATTERJEE is a painter, writer and cartoonist. He writes mainly on art and Western classical music and frequently lectures on these subjects.
K HALID M OHAMMED was the National Culture editor for the Hindustan Times . He has written and directed films like Mammo and Zubeida .
M EGHNAD D ESAI taught economics at the London School of Economics from 1965 to 2003, where he now holds the post of Professor Emeritus. He was made Lord Desai of St Clement Danes in 1991 and awarded the Bharatiya Pravasi Puraskar in 2004 and the Padma Bhushan in 2008. His forthcoming book, The Rediscovery of India , will be published by Penguin India later this year.
M ANJU S EAL , American Marshall Fellow, worked on Wall Street after receiving master s degrees in mathematics and ethnomusicology, and is an investment professional for over eleven years now. She has volunteered for several nonprofit organizations in the Bay area and is currently the President, Board of Directors, of Narika.org .
M AITHILI R AO is a freelance writer and critic based in Mumbai. A regular contributor to the South Asian Cinema and the Frontline , Maithili is also a columnist on contemporary cinema for Man s World .
M AHASWETA D EVI is one of India s most respected writers. She has taken up the cause of denotified tribes and other marginalized sections of our society, especially in her novel Hajar-churashir Maa .
N ABENDU G HOSH , novelist, scriptwriter and director, worked with Bimal Roy on several films. He received the National Award for Best Direction for the film Trishagni (1988). He passed away in December 2007.
N AYANTARA S AHGAL is one of Indian s best-known novelists. Her works include the novels A Storm in Chandigarh and A Situation in New Delhi .
N ASEERUDDIN S HAH is an actor and theatre director. He writes occasionally.
N UTAN is best remembered for her acting in films like Sujata and Bandini . She passed away in 1991.
P RASOON J OSHI is an ad-man and lyricist. He has written songs for films like Taare Zameen Par and Delhi-6.
P AULA H. M AYHEW is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Fairleigh Dickinson University where she researches and teaches postcolonial literature and culture.
R ACHEL D WYER is Professor of Indian Cultures and Cinema and heads the Department of South Asia at the SOAS. Her published works include Gujarati London (1995); All You Want is Money , All You Need is Love : Sex And Romance In Modern India (2000); The Poetics Of Devotion: The Gujarati Lyrics of Dayaram (2001); Cinema India: The Visual Culture of The Hindi Film (2002) , co-authored with Divia Patel; and Filming the Gods: Religion and Indian Cinema (2006).
R ADA S ESIC is a film-maker and film critic from Sarajevo, currently based in the Netherlands. She has curated several programmes on the Indian cinema, including East Side Stories at IDFA Amsterdam, was one of the programmers of IFF, Kerala and the main selector of the International Bucharest Film Festival (BIFF).
R ITWIK G HATAK is remembered for films like Meghe Dhaka Tara (1960), Komal Gandhar (1961) and Subarnarekha (1962). He passed away in 1976.
S AMPURNA C HATTARJI is a poet, fiction-writer and translator. Her poetry features in several journals and anthologies including First Proof: The Penguin Book of New Writing from India 2 and her translations include Wordygurdyboom! The Nonsense World of Sukumar Ray .
S HANTANU M OITRA is a music director, and has composed the music for films like Parineeta (2005), Lage Raho Munnabhai (2006) and Welcome to Sajjanpur (2008).
S HYAM B ENEGAL created a new genre in film-making with films like Ankur (1973), Nishant (1975) and Manthan (1976). He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1976 and the Dadasaheb Phalke in 2006.
S HASHI K APOOR , actor and brother of Raj Kapoor, carved a niche for himself in the film world through films like Shakespeare Wallah (1965), Bombay Talkie (1970) and Heat and Dust (1982). He also produced 36 Chowringhee Lane .
S ONJA M AJUMDER has written on Hindi cinema and subtitled Hindi films for the German audience. She teaches at the Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies of Hamburg University s Asia-Africa Institute and works at the Information Center of the Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg.
S OUDHAMINI is a film-maker from Chennai. Her films fall in the cusp between fiction and non-fiction. She has won wide critical acclaim over the years.
T APAN S INHA is best remembered as director of films like Kabuliwala (1956), Jhinder Bandi (1961), Nirjan Saikate (1963) and Harmonium (1976). Ek Doctor Ki Maut won the National Award for Second Best Film in 1991. He was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2008, before his death on 15 January 2009.
T UTUN M UKHERJEE is Professor and Head of the Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Hyderabad. Her current research interests are translation, women s writing, theatre and film studies. She has published widely on these subjects.
V ASANT C HAUDHURI , renowned actor of the yester years, is remembered for his roles in films like Mahaprasthaner Pathe (1952), Deep Jwele Jaye (1959), Parakh (1960) and Hirer Angti (1992).
Contents
Bimal Roy: A Biographical Sketch Rinki Roy Bhattacharya
The Best Dadu in the World Aditya Bhattacharya
Jury Address Bimal Roy
Introduction Rinki Roy Bhattacharya
BENGAL
1. Prelude Mahasweta Devi
2. A Quiet Man Amit Chaudhuri
3. My Film Guru Nabendu Ghosh
4. Bimal Roy Asit Baran
5. A Pioneer Tapan Sinha
6. My Memories of Bimal Roy Ritwik Ghatak
7. Remembering Bimal Roy Vasant Chaudhuri
8. Remembering Bimalda Amit Bose
9. Bimal Roy: The Architect of Modern Indian Cinema Tutun Mukherjee
10. Bimal Roy and the Golden Age of Indian Cinema Chidananda Das Gupta
BOMBAY
11. Filming Saratchandra Classics Bimal Roy
12. Discovering Bimal Roy Nayantara Sahgal
13. Bimal Roy: A Film-maker s Perspective Shyam Benegal
14. Bimal Roy: The Humanist Jahnu Barua
15. A Legacy of Values in Black and White Khalid Mohamed
16. Discovering India Iqbal Masud
17. Music and Lyrics in the Films of Bimal Roy Prasoon Joshi
18. Bimal Roy and Hindi Film Music Shantanu Moitra
19. Mozart and Madhumati Kishore Chatterjee
20. Actors in Bimal Roy s Films Naseeruddin Shah
21. The Visionary A.K. Bir
22. Idealized Women and a Realist s Eye Maithili Rao
23. Women in Bimal Roy s Films Bhawana Somaaya
24. The Possibility of Gesture: The Poetics of Restraint in Bimal Roy s Bandini Sampurna Chattarji
25. Lamps in Her Eyes C.S. Lakshmi
26. Working with Dada Nutan
27. Memories of Dada Shashi Kapoor
28. Bimalda Gulzar
BEYOND BORDERS
29. Beyond Borders: Bimal Roy at Home and Abroad Anwesha Arya
30. A Different Kind of Hindi Cinema Rachel Dwyer
31. The Pioneering Cinema of Bimal Roy Meghnad Desai
32. Teaching Bimal Roy s Devdas in New Jersey Paula H. Mayhew
33. Revisiting Madhumati Sonja Majumder
34. The Politics of Costumes in the Films of Bimal Roy Clare Wilkinson-Weber
35. An Author for All Cultures Rada Sesic
36. Bringing Bengal Re