I'm with you on Bengali heroines, although I will always cherish the Uttam/Suchitra movies. I've always ranted about Devdas (and isn't Majnun in a way his Arab Muslim precursor) as the model of the self-indulgent narcissistic Bengali hero archetype.
That your irises were mirrors reflecting me at twice my size but I am not Medusa that I can blind your eyes. That your lips were an angel's singing of me to the sky but I am not Helen that I can make you lie. That your spirit was a djinn's granting my desire but I have no lamp that I can contain your fire. I hold a picture of Suchitra Sen when will I fit into that frame, when?
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Date: 2009-01-20 11:09 am (UTC)That your irises were mirrors
reflecting me at twice my size
but I am not Medusa that I can blind your eyes.
That your lips were an angel's
singing of me to the sky
but I am not Helen
that I can make you lie.
That your spirit was a djinn's
granting my desire
but I have no lamp
that I can contain your fire.
I hold a picture of Suchitra Sen
when will I fit into that frame, when?