Sulakshana Biswas
A student of Mass Communication and Videography at St. Xaviers College, Kolkata. An ardent movie buff. What else.....

 

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    Gulaal-Method Acting, Character Lighting and …..
    A dream to turn Rajasthan into a titular sovereign, Rajputana for the Rajputs, the labyrinthine interplay of politics and the intricacy of emotions and pretension that all come so naturally in the apparent calm but yet turbulent scenario and the quintessential representative of the bourgeois who gets sucked into the whirlpool of these muddy affairs form the thematic thread...
    by Sulakshana Biswas at March 23rd, 2009 at 02:03 pm
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    To Do Away With Desire
    Adoor Gopalakrishnan in his mise-en-scene conglomerate, Naalu Pennangal (2007) presents the sad plight of women strangulated by the patriarchal societal structure, where a woman is deprived off her erotic drive, marital bliss and her choice to beget children. Based on the short stories by Thakazi Shivshankar Pillai, portrayed in a deceptively simple yet effective...
    by Sulakshana Biswas at February 24th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
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    Arrey….Isne Toh Biriyani Jalaa Di…….
    By the first half of the film I was convinced that this is going to be a superb film and the film would do justice to the pre-release hype. Well, it had everything to make the film so. A stellar cast, rave reviews….and Zoya Akhtar’s directorial debut. She cooks it up well…. At least that’s what I thought by the first half…… The...
    by Sulakshana Biswas at January 31st, 2009 at 08:01 am
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    Beloved Ritwik,
    Beloved Ritwik, I will thank you before anything else, for making me a winner, unlike Sita and Neeta, who lost out in the great gamble of survival in every aspect of their lives. I, Anusuya am therefore privileged, to represent the optimism that you propagated throughout your entire life, which most mistook it to be otherwise. Your words still reverberate...
    by Sulakshana Biswas at December 23rd, 2008 at 09:12 am
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    14th Kolkata Film Festival- Day 3
    14th Kolkata Film Festival- Day 3 The third day of the Kolkata Film Festival was relatively thanda. A few of them which I saw: 1. Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970) Director: Werner Herzog Language: German The creation of visual metaphors had always been the signature move of Werner Herzog. I had only seen his Nosferatu before, and found it to be tepid; therefore I...
    by Sulakshana Biswas at November 14th, 2008 at 09:11 am
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