Originally posted by: chandrima02Yes, you are again correct regarding the songs. In the 2nd clip it's being sung by Madhabi Mukherjee herself in Satyajit Ray's rendition of "Nashtaneerh" ("Chaarulata")
Originally posted by: chandrima02Regarding the meaning of "Chokher Baali", I have written this to Vimal w.r.t. his identical question:
It's an idiom in Bengali language. It means something which hurts your eyes in literal sense (Chokh = Eye, Baali = Sand). The inner meaning is someone who has been an obstacle in one's life, who can't be easily got rid of. An enemy, in a nut shell, whom one hate like anything but can't directly call an enemy and revolt against.Not only Rabindranath Thakur or Sarat Chandra Chattyopadhyay; almost all the Bengali authors have created very strong women characters in their literary works. Author Jarasandha (real name : Charu Chandra Chakraborty) was a jailer in his real life in British India and almost all his novels are factual accounts of various criminals he has encountered while discharging his duty. Astonishingly, his novels have got female characters, whom the society pinpoints as criminals, who are so so strong and with loads of self-respect. While reading the same you would eventually end up teary-eyed and sympathizing with those so called "criminals"'. You can yourself try "The Voyage" (Paadi), Louhakapat, Tamashi etc., if you get the English translation. "Tamashi" has been immortalized by Bimal Ray through his "Bandini". "Paadi" was also being translated into a movie. You would be able to find the same on YouTube.
Originally posted by: Star_girlAh, the basic dilemma for people reading or viewing Chokher Bali for the first time. Try not to see Binodini in terms of black and white. Try to understand the horrifying system of widowhood and how it murdered a young woman alive.Binodini is an educated, vivacious, sexual young girl who has no options, no life, nothing to look forward to except for death. She tastes freedom for the first time in Mahendro's house. She realizes that she would have been the rightful mistress of this house. She could have been happy. She could have made Mahendro a much better partner than Ashalata. Instead she is stuck within this empty, hollow nothingness. A barely twenty year old girl deprived of every little pleasure. There is this vivid section on her life in village and the terrible condition for widows. You have to understand the social subtext in order to learn Binodini. She is not known as the finest female character in the history of Bengali literature for nothing. She is complicated and problematic. If you compartmentalize her or attempt to visualize her in a linear way, you will never learn Binodini.Binodini's subconscious tells her Asha robbed her of the life she deserved. A life of freedom and happiness. Yes, she willingly seduces Mahendro and she deliberately hurts Asha who has only been her friend. But that's who she is. She is problematic. Ironically enough, only when she gets what she wants, she realizes she never wanted it in the first place. Does she love Mahendro? No. She doesn't even like him or respect him. She speaks of the deeper secrets of the primal female mind. It doesn't help if you judge her through standard right-wrong .
Originally posted by: Neerjaa
You have rightly analyzed Binodini . One has to first understand the era that from story comes . At very early age were got married and then got widowed at very young age and that time widows life was worse than hell . One has to understand her psyche . Its Bihari Babu she respects and kind of wary of him as she knows what she was doing .
Originally posted by: -Crescendo-
Hmm..true.I get this now but don't you think it is morally wrong what Binodini is doing..
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