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Surprised to see my old time: Chandan Rai Sanyal
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Swatilekha Sengupta on working in films, Soumitra Chatterjee and more
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A marked shift in realising this moral decay on screen is apparent from
Aranyer Din Ratri to his Calcutta trilogy
Pratidwandi,
Jana Aranya. In
Pratidwandi, Dhritiman Chatterjee’s Siddhartha declares that he doesn’t want to leave Kolkata, no matter that he is unemployed, with his mind unable to find an ideological footing. The film coincided with the Naxalite movement that began in Bengal, with the caste system and land rights at its root.
Still from ‘Pratidwandi’.
It’s no coincidence that the trilogy charted the course of Indira Gandhi’s India as it inched towards Emergency, creating a swelling anger at the state. Ray’s films still focused on capturing the Bengali Brahmin’s, or more importantly, India’s ruling class’s frustration with itself and the country. The trilogy’s protagonists Siddhartha in
Sitalkuchi, largely an agrarian region, dominated by tobacco farmers with some wealthy ones and some migrants, has seen violence in the recent past. A young couple was harassed by TMC workers outside the polling booth in April 2019. There were two attacks on state BJP president Dilip Ghosh –– one before his rath yatra in December 2018 and one a week ago. But there have been none like the violent clashes on Saturday that experts say threatens to polarise the state further.
Sitalkuchi has among the highest percentage of Muslims (36%) in Cooch Behar, only next to Dinhata where MP Nisith Pramanik is the BJP candidate, apart from Rajbhongshis (50%). The Rajbongshis are the third-largest Hindu caste in Bengal constituting 28% of the total population, but account for 60% of the rural population of North Bengal and claim to be the ‘earliest settlers’.
Bengal Polls: After the vote, the traitors can leave the party, so I want 200 seats, said Mamata Banerjee Dgtl
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