The Bengali film maker Gautam Ghosh’s film “Moner Manush” bagged the coveted Golden Peacock Award for the Best Film at the 41st International Film Festival of India 2010. Gautam Gosh has highlighted the Baul tradition. The film is a near biographical account of that Baul of Bauls, Lalon Phokir. He is assumed to be born in 1774 in the part of Nadia district. It is now in Kushtia, Bangladesh. He died in 1890. He composed 1000 songs. Only 600 of his songs can be traced.
Sunil Gangopadhyay has written a novel on life and song of Lalon Fokir. The book titled Moner Manush was published in 2008.
The film was launched on 17 November. The actors are Prosenjit Chatterjee, Paoli Dam and Suvra Kundu. Moner Manush is directed by Anjan Dutta.
The love and compassion of Lalan is relevant more than ever in today’s world of intolerance and hate.
