1. “Maa” is a cover song, originally written by RajniKanta Sen; the first cover to be added in a fossils album.
2. If I talk music, “Guru” is a very very poor song. In fact you can use the phrase “musically challenged” against it. “Guru” came into F3 at the cost of “Bari Esho”, which is way ahead of “Guru” not only in terms of music but also in mass acceptance criteria.
3. I doubt whether “Danober Uthhan” is actually “Adventures of Satan”, which was written along with “Nemesis”.
4. I heard “Phire Cholo”, “Bhut ar Tilottoma”, “Haspatale” and “Dhongsho Romonthon” when I was still staying in Kolkata.
5. I got some lines of “Bidroher Pandulipi” as an autograph from Rupam in a live gig in early 2000.
6. The line “Local train er track e KataKuti National Laash” in “Rail Line e Mrittu” was originally “Raastar Mukhe pore ache Loktar Laash”.
7. “Schizophrenic Bra” is also a striking revolution in F series. A poem which was never sung before and WHICH IS NOT WRITTEN BY RUPAM, added in to a fossils album.
Now, look at the wrapped cover of the album. The animated strip is extremely difficult to get hold of and if any body says he has understood it by the scruff of the neck, I am sure he is a genius or he is Rupam himself. As an average listener like me, I am sure you start to scratch your head, when you try to put the tracks and story in to sync.
Here I would like to ask some questions. Why Fossils 3 is a movie of one hour? Who is this “Sada Jama lok”? Is he a socialist?
Then comes my next set of Questions. If he was murdered in “Swabhabik Khoon”, then how come he departs again in “Bhut ar Tilottoma 2”? Was he still alive then?
I know your favorite answer to all of these Questions. The Sada Jama Lok is none but Rizwanur Rehman for you. If you think so, then read my second set of Questions again and think again! I left West Bengal when he died!
If you are done with your thinking, then you go back to my 7 bullet points again. You will find, not a single song in the whole album is written after Riz’s death(some are tampered after his death though) and some songs are strikingly different from the characteristic of regular fossils albums and some songs are pushed in to although they are real push overs.
If you are baffled and don’t have an answer, I will try to help you out. I will start with “Guru”.
“Who is this Guru”? Is he God? Is he Christ? I believe he is Christ! I believe he is Christ because of “Danober Uthhan”, which is nothing but a Bengali translation of a Bible verse. Now why I would call Christ as Guru? The word itself does not go well with Christ. Now look at this snap taken from the movie “Pyaasa”. Do you find any resemblance between his posture and Jesus’ stretched hands when he was nailed? I think you do.
DO YOU KNOW, WHO IS THIS ACTOR STANDING LIKE JESUS IN THIS MOVIE?? ANS: GURU DUTT.
Those who have seen “Pyaasa” already will know what I am actually trying to say, others please watch this master piece movie, I am sure you will feel the same.
Vijay (Guru Dutt) is the protagonist of “Pyaasa”, who through out the movie wears an overcoat thrown over a white shirt. Vijay is a poet who is a socialist by nature and his creations speak volume about the society than going verbose about feminine beauty. No printing media is interested in printing his poems as pinkish lines seemed to be the order of the day for the editors. No one understood the power of his poetry except Gulabo, a prostitute based in Kolkata. Gulabo falls for Vijay. But Vijay does not; as he had a girl friend called Meena (Mala Sinha) who deserted him in greed of money and status and married some other man.
The link between F3 and Pyaasa does not shoot off directly from the scratch of the movie, but when Vijay finds that his mother is no more in this world. Vijay was thrown away from his family by his elder brothers because he did not contribute any thing financially. When Vijay gets the news from his brothers that his mother has passed away, he gets disintegrated in sheer emotion and feels he has got nothing to live for.
He leaves to attempt suicide with a final letter written to Meena in his overcoat pocket. On the way, near the rail station, he finds a poor man shivering in cold. He gives away his overcoat to him and again starts walking, wearing that white shirt. Poor man understanding his suicidal intensions follows Vijay, but he himself gets stuck in between the railway tracks. Vijay tries to save him but fails to do so. The poor man gets killed in the train accident wearing that over coat and the letter. The world knew Vijay is no more living in this world. However Vijay gets hospitalized in Coma.
The story takes a turn through Gulabo’s hands. Purely because of her urge to see Vijay’s poetry getting printed, Meena and her husband Mr.Ghosh agrees to print them finally. Poems become best seller and household topic over night. Vijay comes to know about his poems success, but no one agrees to take him as the original Vijay; as for them, Vijay has already breathed his last on a railway track. Vijay is sent to a MENTAL ASYLUM.
As No one, even his brothers do not agree to recognize him as Vijay and take him out, he escapes from the asylum. He reaches the theater where people gathered to remember him as a dead poet. He stands like Christ, sings a song of a socialist and announces his return.
Finally pissed of by this system he leaves Meena and this system.
Now let’s introspect the songs again from the end:
1. In BAT 2 Vijay leaves the city and this society, he goes in to oblivion.
2. Many a time it’s shown in the movie that Vijay is waiting beside Ganges to see the ship to depart. That links Pyaasa and F3 through Schizophrenic Bra. Vijay is a socialist, so is the man in SB. He is forcefully stuck in to a mental asylum. Being in the society he is not quite the man of this democratic system. He is alone, he has no relatives, and he has a River to fix his eyes. This society is a by product of Vijay’s head and the heads of this democratic world. These two pieces of head makes the shape of Bra. That’s why probably the song is titled like that.
3. Vijay is hospital (haspatale) ized in Coma.
4. The poor man dies on Railway track (Rail Line e Mrityu)
5. Dhongso Romonthon is when Vijay remembers the destructions that happened in his life, in discrete scenes after his mothers’ death.
6. Vijay says that we worship gods, but living does not get the basic needs from this society. We are living the life of dead mummies. Mummy depicts his thoughts and a bit of communism in him.
7. Phire Cholo and BAT 1 are signatures of Vijay’s love for Meena.
8. Bidroher Pandulipi shows the rebellion in Vijay.
9. Guru is Guru Dutt.
10. Danober Utthan is the evil of this corrupted society.
11. Maa depicts the helplessness of Vijay after his mother’s death.
You will ask what about the firing of bullets. Yeah it’s obviously Riz. Riz came in to the contention only after Rupam took interest in Riz case in ROTR. That’s it. Following songs do not fit into Riz story at all, rather there’s an uncanny similarity between Pyaasa and F3. I have thrown all my dices, what ever I think. Kindly see Pyaasa and feel free to object or support my vision. :)
nice thinking way man.. good .. I liked it, and the way you described it, is good ..
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