To pay homage to novelist, short-story author and movie director Bhabendranath Saikia within the run-up to his 17th demise anniversary, a dance video, based mostly on his prose items, was launched on Sunday titled Twilight on the Port.
“This can be a humble effort to pay homage to the Sahitya Akademi and Rajat Kamal awardee in a inventive approach by presenting distinctive prose items included in “Soy Doxokor Godyo” (Prose of Six Many years),” famous Satriya dancer Prerana Bhuyan, who has carried out within the video, stated.
Bhuyan, a classical dancer, can also be recognized for her experimental dance types.
Of all the tales included within the video launched in view of Saikia’s demise anniversary on August 13, the story Ei Bondoror Aabeli (Twilight on the Port), specifically, is totally different from his regular fashion, she stated.
For Twilight on the Port, Saikia had created a really particular prose narrative based mostly within the background of London which is totally totally different from his acquainted fashion, stated Bhuyan.
Within the video, she did the advanced job of presenting prose passages via dance gestures and expressions aside from sustaining the rhythm, often required for the art- kind.
Mentioning there are situations of making dance as an example poems, she stated, just lately Malavika Joshi had offered a dance based mostly on Professor Sacchidananda Joshi’s poems, however depiction of prose items in dance kind had not but been performed in Assam.
The textual content of the prose, earlier compiled in an audiobook, Bhraman Biroti directed by Namrata Datta, has been chosen by lyricist, folklorist and singer Dr Birendra Nath Dutta for this experiment.
The music association and enhancing has been performed by Diganta Sharma whereas movie critic Utpal Datta has conceived the dance video.
The video, collectively offered by Membership Nineteen, UD Basis and Rainsoft, is predicted to the touch at the least 5 million followers of Bhabendranath Saikia by August 13, Datta stated.
Bhabendranath Saikia had received Nationwide Awards for every of his seven Assamese movies.
(This story has been revealed from a wire company feed with out modifications to the textual content. Solely the headline has been modified.)
Comply with extra tales on Fb and Twitter