‘চোখের বালি’ ও ‘শেষের কবিতা’ : একুশ শতকের চলচ্চিত্রে রবীন্দ্র উপন্যাসের নতুন-নির্মাণে অঙ্গসজ্জা ও গৃহসংস্কৃতির প্রসঙ্গ/ Costume and Interior Culture in the 21st-Century Cinematic Adaptations of Tagore's Novels: A Study of ‘Chokher Bali’ and ‘Shesher Kobit

Abstract

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, as the neo-liberal economy expanded, scholars from various fields began to re-examine Tagore’s writings from a new perspective. In Bengali cinema, Rituparna Ghosh experimented with Tagore’s novel Chokher Bali to reassess questions of Bengali identity for the Neo-Bhadralok class, the new consumers of cultural products. Ghosh’s Chokher Bali opened a new vista for serious Bengali filmmakers to experiment with Tagore. Suman Mukhopadhyay made Sesher Kabita based on Tagore’s novel of the same name. In this paper, Chokher Bali and Sesher Kabita are discussed to examine identity and women's questions through the lens of cultural materialism.