![]() ![]() While outside Bengal, audience's wait for another Devdas from Ghosh and Rai, within the State cineastes are comparing Chokher Bali with Satyajit Ray's immortal adaptations of Rabindranath Tagore's novels. ![]() Apart from the same actress there is no common ground between the two," revealed Ghosh. If they come to see another Devdas they will be disappointed. We are talking about two different kinds of films. It has a different kind of audience appeal. Those expecting Chokher Bali to be an extension of Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Devdas(Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai, Madhuri Dixit) are in for a disappointment warns the director of acclaimed films like Dahan, Utsav and Bariwali. His compositions were chosen by two nations as national anthems: India's Jana Gana Mana and Bangladesh's Amar Shonar Bangla.Distinguished Bengali filmmaker, Rituparno Ghosh's new film Chokher Bali (Sand In The Eye) featuring Aishwarya Rai has evoked immense curiosity in the film industry. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are his best-known works, and his verse, short stories, and novels were acclaimed-or panned-for their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and unnatural contemplation. His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays spoke to topics political and personal. Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures. Tagore had used a working title Binodini before its publication.Īwarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West." "Eyesore" was used as the title for its first English translation by Surendranath Tagore published in 1914. The title of the book can be translated as "a grain of sand", a "constant irritant to the eye", or an "eyesore". The content also highlighted issues of women literacy, child marriage, patriarchy within the family and the fates of three widows. ![]() It explores the extramarital affair between Binodini, a young widow, and Mahendra, one of the three other main characters, the complicated friendship with Asha, his girl-wife, and her mutually conflicting feelings with Behari, Mahendra's adopted brother. First published as a serial, a novel on love, family and sexuality in Bengal society.Ĭhokher Bali is a 1903 Bengali novel by Rabindranath Tagore that depicts the life of the central character, Binodini, and her relationships with three individuals. One of the most famous novels of Tagore and a timeless classic of Bengali literature. ![]()
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