Vijayendra kumeria biography of michael

A handful of images from three different films have lately been swarming in my mind and compelled me to revisit them. In one stretch, I re-watched Ronny Sen’s “Catsticks” (), Ishaan Ghose’s “Jhilli” () and Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s “Once Upon a Time in Calcutta” (). In the whirlwind of post-watch afterthought, I dared to postulate these three films as a single thesis – you can call this a neo-Kolkata trilogy as well – co-written by three different writers. The last of the mentioned titles has been rechristened “Mayanagar” and released in the theatres recently. So, now it would be convenient to talk about this gamut of films that encounter the spectral ‘other’ in a dystopia hidden in the crevices of a decaying megalopolis.

Ronny Sen’s debut feature “Catsticks” was a bold attempt, in the context of Bangla as well as Indian cinema, to deal with the issue of substance abuse. Kolkata

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