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Swapna - Photography exhibition, film screening by Molla Sagar

Shadow 1 (Top), Dancing (Bottom) and (right)
Phoolbari

Sheikh Arif Bulbon

“Nobody can control dream during sleeping. This dream is my reality. But when I sleep I find deceased body. I love to see dream, then again go to sleep. This sleep is only for my dream. It is restricted to tell about dream and love. We pass our days backstage of the shadow of time. It is added with time of life. The gap between life and time is increasing. It becomes close to each other," this was the self-realisation of the photographer and filmmaker Molla Sagar about the inherent relationship between time and dream. He has combined images and visions and worked on a common theme.

He said this at his recent weeklong solo photography exhibition and premiere show of a series of his three short films at the Alliance Francaise in Dhanmondi in the capital. The weeklong exhibition ended on September 27.

The photographs and films were the result of his five-year project, from 2003 to 2008. His works basically feature the socio-cultural aspects of the country. He has traversed throughout the country while working on this project. Sagar's photographs portrayed different aspects of the country more intrepidly. Some 25 photographs were on display at the show and the photographs were in 33mm, 120 mm and digital formats.

Colour composition in Sagar's photographs was outstanding.

In a photograph titled 'Cows,' showed a number of the domesticated animals on a seemingly vacant street during rain.

The colour of the photo depicted the rainwater seeping through the trees and washing away the green before touching the ground.

Another photograph titled 'Light,' a photo in 120 mm format, highlighted an unusually peaceful city street during dusk. He played with light and shadows smartly.

Several other photographs titled 'Dancing,' 'Woman' and 'Rebel' highlighted the theme through some shared activities and surroundings.

In his short films, Sagar addressed the dream of a positive Bangladesh through the central character's eyes, most of whom were rural people.

Moreover, Sagar's short films, each about five minute-long, titled 'The Dream,' 'Harmony of the Dream' and 'Sound of Dream' were shot in DV format.

The Sign of Reality: Josaia McNamara’s solo art exhibition

The Seat of Nirvana, Oil on canvas/ Jossaia
McNamara

Art & Culture Report

“The knowledge and the wisdom that do transcend in man are much greater then the materialistic reality that surrounds him. It has the natural power to change the whole world. In this series 'The Sign of Reality' I do bring up the realisation that life is a journey, where man has to face a certain higher truth that is found in him. This truth is the very seed of his original birth. It is the gateway to his inner universe. The universe unseen by the normal human eyes but could be seen and sensed through the third spiritual eye and deeper still within this centre lies the divine essence of his spiritual nature," said the Fijian artist Jossaia McNamara at his solo art exhibition titled 'The Sign of Reality' at the Zainul Gallery of the Institute of Fine Arts of Dhaka University recently. The exhibition was a part of his nine-month Commonwealth Scholarship Programme at the Department of Printmaking of the Fiji Fine Art.

Jossaia's Polynesian and Melanesian cultural heritage and Christian origin was noticeable in his works. He presented the religious beliefs and culture of that part of the world in his exotic and non-naturalistic art.

Blending signs of different religions and cultures, Jossaia portrayed the 'spirit' of the journey to achieve 'ultimate peace.'

Following the Polynesian and Melanesian art traditions, Jossaia presented the images of Vishnu, Durga, Buddha and other gods and traditional motifs of Bangladesh.

Moreover, he used verses from different religions in several languages such as Bangla and Hebrew.

To realise his artworks in different mediums like oil on canvas, mixed media, etching and lithography, one had to know his background.

Jossaia has travelled the world to learn about the religions, cultures and folk arts.

He said, "This series interprets life as a journey, where man has to face a certain higher truth, which is the very seed of his creation. In fact, it is the gateway to his inner universe at the centre of which lies the divine essence of his spiritual nature."

Movie Review : Golmaal Returns

Movie Name: Golmaal Returns

Release Date: 30 October 2008

Genre: Comedy

Banner: Shri Ashtavinayak Cine Visions

Producer: Dhilin Mehta

Director: Rohit Shetty

Cast: Ajay Devgan, Arshad Warsi, Celina Jaitley, Amrita Arora, Murli Sharma, Vrajesh Hirjee, Mukesh Tiwari, Ram Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Tusshar Kapoor, Shreyas Talpade, Anjana Sukhani, Sanjay Mishra, Ashwini Kalsekar, Preeti Bhutani, Rakhi Vijan

Music Director: Shekhar Ravjiani, Vishal Dadlani, Pritam, Ashiesh Pandit

Lyricist: Sameer, Neeraj Shridhar, Vishal Dadlani, Ashiesh Pandit, Suzie. Q, Kumaar

Story Writer: Rumi Jaffrey

Dialogue Writer: Neeraj Vora

Playback Singer: Anvesha Dutta, Benny Dayal, Anushka Manchanda, Shaan, Sunidhi Chauhan, Kay Kay, Neeraj Shridhar, Javed Ali, Akruti Kakkar, Earl, Suhail Kaul, Suzie. Q, Monali Thakur, Shekhar Ravjiani, Sneha Pant, Vishal Dadlani

Publicity Designer: Rahul Nanda, Himanshu Nanda

PRO: Parag Desai

Synopsis: Golmaal Returns, the much-awaited follow-up of the uproariously comic smash-hit Golmaal, arrives with renewed star power, chartbusting music and more laughter than before!

Gopal (Ajay Devgan), who lives with his wife Ekta (Kareena Kapoor), sister Esha (Amrita Arora) and a dumb brother-in-law Lucky (Tusshar Kapoor), gets stuck in a yacht after saving an attractive woman Meera (Celina Jaitly) from some goons.

Both end up spending the night on the yacht and when he comes home the next day, his painfully suspicious wife, a hardcore fan of saas-bahu serials, smells fish.

Gopal knows it’s going to be hard to quell her suspicion so he concocts a cock-and-bull story about having stayed the night with a fictitious friend called Anthony Gonsalves. Ekta refuses to buy his yarn and writes to Anthony (on a fictitious address given to her by Gopal) asking him to visit her.

Gopal convinces his junior at work, Laxman (Shreyas Talpade) to pretend to be Anthony. Everything goes according to plan till the address to which Ekta had written to Anthony turns out to be real.

If that isn’t complication enough for Gopal, a dead body is discovered at the location where he had saved Meera. The Investigating Officer, Madhav (Arshad Warsi), who is Esha’s boyfriend and cannot stand the sight of Gopal, learns that the latter had been missing from home that eventful night and begins checking on him.

Madhav’s investigation results in hilarious chaos and tricky situations where a new lie must be invented at every instance to conceal the previous lie!