Lovers of cinema based on literature, contemporary or classic, Bengali, national or international, can look forward to Kagojer Bou (Wife on Paper) directed by Bappaditya Bandopadhyay based on a novel authored by Sirsendu Mukhopadhyay, one of the most talented writers among contemporary Bengali littérateurs. Bappaditya has made another film on Sirsendu’s story, Silpantar, a very complex film that brought him international recognition. The name was Potua Nibaran, about the tragedy of a folk artist who finds his art fading away in the face of competition from modern intrusions into art. A serialized version was made for television long ago. But it failed to click.
Bappaditya Bandopadhyay is among the younger lot of filmmakers in Bengal who has hit the international scene with his works. His first film Sampradaan fetched him the Most Promising Director Award from the Bengal Film Journalists Association. It also featured at the 6th Dhaka International Film Festival in 2000. It is about a young girl choosing her mother to ‘give her away’ as part of the wedding rituals, conventionally done by the father.
She rejects the father’s request because he deserted the family when she was a little girl. After Silpantar, he has never had to look back. Other films followed such as Devaki, (in English and Hindi), Kantataar, Kaal and Houseful.
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