REVIEW ABOUT ‘PATHER PACHALEE’
“For every
man the world is as fresh as it was at the first
day,and
as full of untold novelties for him who has the
eyes to see them .”
-By Thomas Henry Huxley .
In
present days , our life is so busy .There is so many
hustles and bustles .The freshness, the beauty has gone .
We are getting blatant pollution instead of silky,smoothy
air . We are losing every happiness of our life .It is very
much mechanical .The flattering of butterflies ,the smell
of blue sky ,the expression of our thought –everything is
artificial . We need purity,simplicity,holiness in our
life .Otherwise, the concreats will take our place .We know
that how much power we have in our nature .Nature is our
mother .Nature changes it’s colour everyday as our life
goes . It is almost blue, but the mood is different .Some
times it is shaded , some times it is bright, dull and some
times weavy . From her womb we have taken our birth . In
India we get the healing touch of nature . Specially in
Bengal ,the nature has desolated for us to bloom . Her
soft silky soil, low streamed river , clear sky , polite
sounds of cuckoos deeply overwhelmed the writer ,
Bibhutivushan Banerjee to creat a leagend novel ,”
PATHER PACHALEE”(The Path Of Life ) .
In this novel ,
his pen ran like a boat in the river . The essence of
life ,with known and unknown possibilities came through
his writing like a child’s smile after getting his
mother’s assurance .Perfection makes a man
particular,successful ,but the natural shine goes out .
Life never compromise with it’s success . It’s always
ready to smile ,repent,cry,sweat . And it gives us
different feelings of emotions by which we face our life .
This is true for every person of our
universe .
Bibhutivushan banerjee was born in 12th
September,1894 at 24-paragona,West Bengal . He started
to write his novel in 1925 and finished it in 1928 . The
eminent film director , Satyajit Ray made a film on this
novel and got “Oscar prize” .
As it was written a long
time ego ,it is not contemporary to our busy
world . But
the characters he drawn , that were very close to us . The
village of Bengal is changing ,with the help of modern
technologies. But the characters of people ‘ll never lost
their beauty .In modern time it is also relevant . The
unknown birds, flowers, colours of nature may be
vanished , but the essence are within us . So ,we can feel
the emotions .
By going through the pages of “PATHER
PACHALEE” ,we are very much absorbed with the moments and
accents of the characters .We realize that we are
talking ,singing,crying with them. We consider them as a
part of our life . Even a prosaic imagines the central
characters “ Apu” and “Durga” as his neighbour’s
children .
The plot of this story goes like a child
plays with his fingers innocently . This story is n’t only
about a family ,but also about a society where different
characters peeped out in varied ways . Here the family has
five members . “Harihar” is a male character and deals as a
head of the family . “Sarbojjawa” is his wife . She is
always optimistic and deals a beloved and kind hearted
mother .”Apu”and “Durga” ,their children ,are the central
character of this novel .And ,Indir Thakur, is the old
lady who is “Harihar’s” aunt. She has no place to
live .The couple reluctantly gives permission to stay
with them .
But , by nature they are not so .The family
is always in the claws of poverty . Situation encourages
them to take this dicision .
The wealth of this novel is
the childhood of “Apu” and “Durga” . It takes us in a lapse
of fantasy land where dream and reality mixes up hand by
hand . In our childhood ,we also hunt for that dream .It
rejoices us while we read the activities of “Apu”
and “Durga”. It helps us to turn back in our
childhood .
The sharpness of writing creatte an
atmospherto to mourn on the death of “Durga” . About death
writer gave us a philosophical thought that- world is a
temporary place,where so many people hide themselves to an
unknown state where every one sleeps . He is an expert to
create a fantasy world . So the adventure of thought, the
romance of nature,the elegance of character can never be
come to an end . It is always continuing us like a beating
of heart .