In the film Jhora Palok, director Sayantan Mukherjee traces Jibanananda Das’s poetic growth, but he pays considerable attention to the poet’s personal upheavals as well. Sayantan points out the revolutionary shifts that Jibanananda’s poetry marked in matters of diction, theme and prosodic structure.
In the film, starring Bratya Basu and Jaya Ahsan, Jibanananda’s personal life has been explored and it is through this exploration that some fictional elements come in.
“Jibanananda Das’s poetry gave us a new experience. His words come to us in a new way. There’s so much more in his creations. Apart from many other things, this film also shines a light on how he created some of his memorable works. There are also many characters from his time. This is not a narrative film and neither is it a biopic. I play Labanyaprabha Das and I got to discover many layers of the character as I was performing it. The director has tried to express the world of Jibanananda’s poems in a new language,” says Jaya Ahsan.
Bratya Basu plays Jibanananda Das in the film, which also stars Rahul Banerjee (the young Jibanananda), Debshankar Halder (Sajanikanta Das) and Kaushik Sen (Buddhadeb Basu).