![]() ![]() Maybe, it has to do with our culture, our psyche, not to integrate the turmoil with celebrated forms of art. Until Salil Chaudhari celebrated the "gono-shongeet" format, artists from Bengal never took the initiative to align themselves to the contemporary political unrest.Of course, there are minor exceptions,but, those exceptions were never celebrated in the mainstream. ![]() The matinee idols Uttam Kumar and Soumitra Chatterjee hardly enacted any political characters or anything near with similar tones or overtones. ![]() Even though, artists from Bengal fondly remembers the bygone political era and unrest and attach an added romanticism with it, for e.g., Sunil Gangopadhay's "Shei Shomoi". In the post-war, post-Independence era, there were hardly any prominent and celebratory novels or works of art pertaining to the Naxal unrest, with Animesh Trilogy from Samaresh Basu being an exception. Methinks,characters from Bengali literature and art are vastly apolitical, since their inception. Certainly calls for wider, wilder and a longer debate. ![]()
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