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Emotional journey into the realm of art

Art meets art: Sisir Sahana and Smitha Madhav in the bilingual film ‘Prithvi’

Film: Prithvi

Cast: Sisir Sahana, Smitha Madhav

Direction: Sisir Sahana

Prithvi is a 78-minute Bengali-Telugu feature film that encapsulates the life of an artiste, his journey is a creative psychic process and his creation of images is in the nature of a struggle and here you get to see that a work of art is not to create a beautiful object but to satisfy the artiste’s inner urge, to release his tension. Here in Prithvi, Sisir Sahana in a semi-autobiographical and realistic account helps you understand his images but at times, even make s the audience experience the frustration.

There is display of the indomitable spirit of a budding artist, who as a school boy from a farmer’s family in Bengal grows up drawing lines but eventually finds support and studies art at Santiniketan. He spurns love to pursue his goal in the urban life of Hyderabad.

One feels that the artist spends more time on expressing his pent-up emotions, awakening of romance after a brief encounter with a young dancer (Smitha Madhav) and then his helplessness which finds expression only on the canvas, the only crutch being his young daughter. The only hitch is - you don’t get trapped by his paintings, you are trapped by Sisir’s emotional universe.

Y.SUNITA CHOWDHARY

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