Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Yuganta

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Jul 5, 2012, 8:25:48 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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+'''Yuganta'''
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+aka What the Sea Said
+1995 135’ col Bengali
+d/s Aparna Sen pc NFDC c A. Shashikant,
+Dilip Verma m Jyotishka Dasgupta
+lp Anjan Dutta, Rupa Ganguly, Pallavi
+Chatterjee, Kunal Mitra
+Mapping political and environmental concerns
+upon a domestic melodrama, Sen’s most recent
+film occasionally borders on the surreal. An
+estranged couple, advertising executive
+Deepak (Dutta) and classical dancer Anusuya
+(Ganguly), return to a fishing village where
+they had spent their honeymoon. Their past life
+is told through a series of flashbacks, while the
+sea, polluted by rampant consumerism,
+appears to symbolise their present condition. A
+flashback reveals that Anusuya had fought a
+major industrial house on behalf of
+environmental activists, but later capitulated
+when that institution funded her dance school.
+‘Global’ issues such as the gulf war and the rise
+of market capitalism are presented as
+impacting local and even personal problems.
+This relationship is graphically realised in the
+film’s end when a blazing sea, into which
+Deepak disappears, is connected to the gulf
+war oil slick. The apocalyptic end had been
+foretold by an old fisherman earlier in the
+story. Among those who publicly praised the
+film included major Bengali poet Shankho
+Ghosh, who commended its poetic sensibility,
+and novelist Debesh Roy who noted its
+independence from storytelling and Satyajit
+Ray-school filmmaking.
+
+[[Film]]