Nabarun Bhattacharya and Kolkata's Page3 Coterie

It is strange that when film director Srijit Mukherjea made the film "Baishe Srabon" he presented a distorted picture of the Hungry Generation movement by giving the role of a lunatic Hungry Generation poet to another famous director Goutam Ghose. The character who had been after editors for publishing his poems lived in a dilapidated building and talked rubbish. The story also presents him as a convict who had set fire to Kolkata International Book Fair at Park Street. There was no need to bring in the Hungry Generation movement into the story. However, it was done by the RITWIKTANTRA of Kolkata to denigrate the Hungry Generation movement.
Compare this idiocy to the role played by RITWIKTANTRA in presenting Nabarun Bhattacharya's novels in films and drama on stage. This was possible because Nabarun Bhattacharya was an aristocrat intellectual belonging to the Page3 circuit of Kolkata whereas the poets and writers of Hungry Generation movement came from slums and refugee families. Prof Sutapa Sengupta was right when she said that Nabarun Bhattacharya had used the tools of Hungry Generation writers for presenting popular narratives for public consumption.