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Ayan Dawn

A resident of Kolkata, West Bengal, Ayan Dawn did B.A (Hons.) in English from Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Belurmath (Calcutta University) and currently pursuing an M.A in English language and literature from the University of Delhi. He has worked as a writer in the National Geographic Photo Camp and has also featured as a citizen journalist in The Quint. | E-mail: ayandawn.ad@gmail.com

Chola_Ayan Poster
The film begins with a woman(probably a grandma) telling another woman (granddaughter) a tale about a prince searching for a virgin woman to get rid of the fear of blood. The prince says to the woman, “I want every inch of you”. The woman replies, “But I don’t own myself”. The film ends with the grandma saying, “Then, the virgin asked the earth who do I belong to?”
Sem_ayan dawn
Bohun Lynch in his book A History of Caricature (1926) writes, “…….we may say that caricature is, amongst the other things, the portrayal of an individual, as seen by another, without regard to the rules of drawing. Joseph Conrad, in Nostromo, speaks (and as it happens without any apparent thought of caricature in his mind) of “putting the face of a joke upon the body of truth”, which very neatly serves to describe at least one aspect of the art.”…

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