Falguni Roy


Falguni Roy was an anti-establishment Bengali poet born in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Along with Shakti Chattopadhyay, Malay Roy Choudhury, Samir Roychoudhury, Subimal Basak, Debi Roy, Utpal Kumar Basu, Binoy Majumdar, Sandipan Chattopadhyay, Basudeb Dasgupta, Roy was also associated with the Hungryalist movement. Anti-establishment poet Tushar Roy was his brother.

Film on Falguni

An experimental short film about Roy, Ebang Falguni , was shown at foreign film festivals. Entirely shot on DVcam, score is composed by Monomix, and run time is 21 min 06 sec. This film had two screenings at the River To River Florence Indian Film Festival, Florence, Italy on Wednesday 8 December 2004 at 23:00 hrs and on Saturday 11 December 2004 at 18:00 hrs. It featured in Indian Short Shorts section with English and Italian subtitles. It was produced by Subhankar Das and directed by Sharmi Pandey.

Famous poems

He is famous for his book Nashto Atmar Television published on the Independence Day of 1973, a day considered to be the date signifying the end of Modernism in Bengali Poetry. Some of his poems published in the anthology Amar Rifel Amar Bible athoba Falguni Royer Falguni Roy are: