Lekhak Ka Cinema (Hindi Edition)

Kunwar Narayan is an internationally renowned poet. He is a profound scholar of world cinema. He has written and lectured on cinema extensively for half a century. Writers Cinema is a book composed of some of his key articles, commentaries, lectures, and memoirs. It includes special reports from several international film festivals, written from the authors perspective and are of great significance. In this book, he defines and analyzes the relationships between art, life, society, and cinema. This book exemplifies how a poet, in dialogue with other artistic mediums, discovers new principles for his art; it offers a soulful analysis of the grammar of cinema. Here, there is no rush to observe or contemplate, but rather a long, continuous process of thought, as complex as the process of filmmaking itself. Beyond the famous films and directors, it will be a rewarding experience to read about those directors and films whose names have been scarcely mentioned until this second decade of the twenty-first century. This book also holds documentary value for the new generation of Hindi readers, who are interested in world cinema. The famous lines of the Argentine writer Borges are: I am all the writers I have read, all the people I have met, all the women I have loved, all the cities I have lived in. In the context of Kunwar Narayan, it could be added: I am all the films I have seen. Geet Chaturvedi.