Chotuskone: Perplexing, intimidating and at times taxing
Srijit's Chotuskone was seen by me purely for the hype it created and my co-brother's blatant praise for the same. Alas, it never really takes off, from where other of his work was. Too pseudo, too overtly intellectual (read forced) and too abstract. Sorry to digress, I have read somewhere the foundation of anything abstract (read music, painting or any form of culture) has strong grounding in realism. Good evidences of such are found in the works of the fabled Pablo Picasso, who had initial grounding in realistic art and gradually experimented with abstract. The problem with Srijit and his work, perhaps there is a grounding issue in his style of cinema as foundation of his work seems questionable. All of his work, to me have been on the lines of being surreal, abstract (maybe I can express this better by using a Bengali word like durboddho) and nihilist in it's form. Autograph or Baishe Sharabon or Hemlock, all fall in the same trap. His Mishor Rohosho was experime