Falguni Roy


Falguni Roy was an anti-establishment Bengali poet born in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Along with Shakti Chattopadhyay, Malay Roy Choudhury, Samir Roychoudhury, Subimal Basak, Debi Roy, Utpal Kumar Basu, Binoy Majumdar, Sandipan Chattopadhyay, Basudeb Dasgupta, Roy was also associated with the Hungryalist movement. Anti-establishment poet Tushar Roy was his brother.

Film

An experimental short film about Roy, Ebang Falguni , was shown at foreign film festivals. Entirely shot on DVcam, score is composed by Monomix, and runs just over 21 minutes. This film had two screenings at the River To River Florence Indian Film Festival, Florence, Italy, 8 and 11 December 2004. It featured in Indian Short Shorts section with English and Italian subtitles. It was produced by Subhankar Das and directed by Sharmi Pandey.

Famous poems

He is famous for his book Nashto Atmar Television published on the Independence Day of 1973, a day considered to be the date signifying the end of Modernism in Bengali poetry. Some of his poems published in the anthology Amar Rifel Amar Bible athoba Falguni Royer Falguni Roy are:
  • "Amar Rifle amar Bible"
  • "Manik Bandyopadhyayer Choshma"
  • "Kritrim Saap"
  • "Aamader Swapno"
  • "Kobita Bullet"
  • "Biplober Gaan"
  • "Aami Aamar Moton"
  • "Manusher songe kono Birodh Nei"
  • "Nashto Atmar Television"
  • "Sesh Bibriti"
  • "Baektigato Bichhana"