Happiness of Creation

“I am happiest when I create something, may it be a film or just a joke”

Happiness is rare in today’s world. Aye kotha ta koto ta sotti ami jani na. Kintu ami eta jani j ekta notun kichu sristi korar j anondo seta atuloniyo. Saye jonno e hoye to ekti sontan er jonmo tar mar kache tar jiboner sob theke khusir somay. Tar jonno e hoye to ekti krisoker kache tar nejer haate bopon kora dhaan kat te ato anondo. Ke darun bapar, tai na? Ha, sotti e darun.

Kichu notun kore bananor gun amader sobar modhey ache. Jeta dorkar seta holo saye gun ta ke ‘kaje laganor’. Talei dekbe asol anondo pabe.

Aye bapare, amar ek priyo bondhu, Rick Saha’r kobita mone pore gelo .

“antahin sukher khoj, barai kathin

mapte gia sukher sima,dekhi antahin

sukh-shantir hiseb hayto melena aksathe

kothao thik apurnata janay esharate

arthakari,bishay ashay sukher aloy noy

bhranta sukher khoje britha samay apachay

natun kichu shristi sukhe jerup tripti ase

shristi sukher ullase mon bhaste bhalobase

natun kono jiban giti ,natun kare swapna lipi--

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natun kare jibon jeno geye othe kono bhore

shristi buker talpatate basir sur tole

shristi jno batash jure tufan tola dheu

shristi jno akla mane akche base keu

shristi pare gaite kbol akatar jaya-gan

shriti majhe sunte paya natun alor ajan”

Etai ke bastav ?

Kichu din ager kotha. Hotath ke mone holo bereye porlam chobi tulte. Ami, amar camera r amar cycle. Besh kichu khun cycle chalanor por pouchalam ekta chotto gram a. Chare dike sudhu kacha bari. Cycle ta dar koreye aste kore namlam. Bag theke camera ta bar kore ek kadhe jhuleye lens cap ta khule ba dekeer pocket a dhukeye raklam. Street photography korte gele ami sob somay lens cap ta amar ba dekher pocketi rakhe. Kichu khun edik odike ghorar por serokom kichue pelam na.

'Ami hoye to ektu bhul somay chole eseche.
Erokom somay nischoye sobai ghumache. Bari fere jaoya tai better.'

Sesh obdi hotash hoye kadh theke camera ta nameye lens cap ta jaye bar korte jabo, ekta bachar golar sobdo sunte paye. Lens cap ta abar saye ba deker pocket a dhukeye egote thaki sobdo tar deke. Kichu dur egonor por dekhe ekta chotto matir barir uthane bose ache ekta bacha. Tar pase tar baba r tar ma. Guti guti pa egote egote jokhon bacha tir baba amake deklen, ami ektu hese bollam...

'Or ekta chobi tulche.'

Bacha tir baba matha nere uttor delen. Ami bujte parlam j tar kono appoti nei. Kichu khun chobi tolar por ami kheyal korlam tara dupurer khaowar khachelo. Ami ektu daralam, camera deye focus korte geye dekhe j bacha tar baba tar thalate besh kichu 'aallu seddho' makchelen. Pase ekta chotto nuner kouto r kichu kacha piyaj rakha chelo. Hotath jano amar bhetor ta kamon kore uthlo.

'Oh, my God, ami eta ke deklam. Ora ke etai dupure khabe?
aallu seddho r kacha piyaj ?'

Er por ami r ektao chobi tulte parlam na. Jani na kano. Camera ta bag a dhokate dekhe bacha tir baba bollen.

''R chobi tulben na dada ?''

Ami r ke uttor debo, ektu hese bollam,

"na asole light ta khub kome geche, tai bhalo chobi uthbe na. "

Ferar age ami bacha tir baba ke ekta prosno korlam.

"samnei to vote, ke mone hoche ?"

Lok te ektu hese bollen,

"jar ja hoyar thik hobe dada, kintu amader r kichu hobe na, amra jamon ache thik serokm e thakbo."

Ami bollam,

"ema erokom bolchen kano..??"

Uni abar ektu hese bollen,

"ke r bolbo, sob e to janen. Aye duniyar r kichu hobe na dada, sob sesh hoye geche aye vote'r jonno."

Cycle kore bari firte firte amar mathay sudhu ektai prosno aslo,

"etai ke bastav ?"

The making of a documentary

Intro:

‘The making of a documentary – an unfinished documentary film’ is just a work of fiction. It has no connection with reality; rather it is loosely based on some cleaver story making and using realistic camera actions. Although the dialogues used in the film are real in the sense that there was no such scripts used in this film. On the basis of the situation a general outline of the plot is given based on which the actors improvised on their dialogues. The inspiration of such method of direction came from the directors like Spike Lee, Jim Wong, Jean- Luc Godard, Gus Van Sant, Judd Apatow and many more. Another method of scripting was also used in this film, where the actors were allowed to write their own part of script. Directors like Woody Allen, Ingmar Bergman, Stanley Kubrick, James Cameron, Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa and many other used this type of scripting in their film making. So adapting such a style is purely because of inspiration and for learning purposes.

“I believe that every film in itself is like a chapter of a learning process that shall never end, and must not end”

Chapter 1: The Eye

The cinematography or the camera work in every film is like an eye of that film. Through it the world will see, observe and criticize. It provides a vision that helps the audience to understand that what the director or the story wants to convey. Hence it is the most important part of any film making. In this case the camera acts as a person or as a follower, who follows every incident that takes place in the film. The audience must take it slowly as a part of the film or story telling. As decided, most of the shots were hand held, so as to provide a feel of realism. There were night shots without light as to utilize the ‘night vision’ option which in recent time has brought a new wave in digital film making. Film making has always been under different experimentations. In case of my work, it’s the same. The making of a documentary (TMD, in short) purely exists because of the idea of experimentation. The entire film in itself is an experiment. Secondly the process of filming it which includes both pre & post production involve many experimentations. For example, as told earlier, the scripting styles, the cinematography, the lighting and even the over all feel and look of the entire film. One of the main targets of the film will be to fool the viewers & make them believe that the videos they are watching, is in its truest form and they are real video footages. Until the film ends with the note of ‘fiction’. Hence the camera work must be in such way, that it fames the scenes in more realistic manner. Scenes of interviews close up discussions and some real type graphic scenes will make it look more realistic. Lesser use of decorated sets, costumes, makeup, foregrounds & backgrounds.

Most important, the view through the ‘eye’ must look like as if it’s showing a daily part of life instead of a fabricated one.

Chapter 2: The Concept & The Story

2.1 The Concept

The film shows the making of a documentary film, headed by four young lads. Among them one is the director with an assistant, and the other two are the camera persons. Staring their first journey as documentary film makers, they follow a very strange newspaper article regarding two boys, who went missing for many days without any trace. Later, while into the making of the documentary they come across some dramatic evidences which leads them to some dangerous circumstances under which the director and a camera person loses their life, and the other two commits suicide. The documentary remains unfinished.

To be continued....

Anne Frank

Anne Frank, the lady who inspires me the most.

Probably one of the best autobiographies that we could read is of Anne Frank's dairy. Her dairy is a very painful documentation of truth of Jewish people who were ill treated and later killed by the Nazi Germany and its allies under the rule of Adolf Hitler. Not only this, her documentation are so lively that after even so many years one can hear in it the voice of over six million people effected by the Holocaust.

Anne frank was just a girl of 13 when she moved into the 'secret annex', the hiding place behind the company's premises, with her family. In person Anne Frank was very different from that of the Anne Frank who wrote the diary. Most of us knew Anne Frank from the view point of a writer. This is because she knew that if she express her feeling no one will believe her because she was just thirteen. So she put down all her thoughts, emotions and personal interpretations in her dairy, which she named as 'Kitty'. Personifying the diary helped her avoid the pain of writing in a vacuum.

On the other hand, Anne Frank's relation with her mother was strained. But she was deeply attached to her father Otto Frank. Anne often felt that her mother loved her sister Margot more than her. As a result Anne adored her father to whom she was emotionally the closest. Anne spent a lot of time in writing in those two years when she and her family was hiding. Her practice made her the master in characterization and as a result she was able to portrait the people round her with great psychological realism. Her style of writing was precise, confident and tensed. But the most important thing in her writing was her honesty, which makes her dairy a valid historical document. The reflection of her character can be easily measured from her writing, which occasionally becomes shrewd and cruel, which can be considered as a part of her swinging mood of adolescence.

But what ever she wrote she wrote with a pure spirit and offered us a rich and rewarding experience in reading. On the contrary we must not forget that she wrote under the threat of death and hence her writing has immortalized her as she once said, "I want to go on living even after my death."

I personally believe that as a writer and humanist Anne Frank was the spokesperson of her time while at the same time speaking to the future generations about the folly of indifference. Her dairy is a social, historical and literary document that we must cherish for ever.

Written By Sourav Dutta