Man & Machine
A rare poster image of Ritwik Ghatak's 1958 movie Ajantrik . I like this image because it shows the intimate and essential interaction between man and machine which I believe is inevitable in the future.
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Antarmahal : Crude and Grotesque Tragedy
Antarmahal (The Inner Chamber ) , a movie featuring Roopa Ganguly, Jackie Shroff, Soha Ali Khan, Abhishek Bachan and directed by Rituparno Ghosh was released in Calcutta over the weekend. ................................................................................................................................................... With Raincoat , Rituparno was merely boring but with Antarmahal he is positively insufferable. I have not read Tarashankar Banerjee's original tale but I do see the outline of an engaging story about a rustic, libidinous idol maker who fashions the goddess in the likeness of his patron's wife ... with catastrophic, if not humourous, results. Unfortunately, Rituparno has overlaid this tale with a nauseating story of a vicious and degenerate zamindar and his perverted craze of having a son at any cost. The result is crude, grotesque and painful. I have no problems with explicit eroticism or sensuality but the crudity with which sweaty, claustrophobi...