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It has been a couple of days since I returned from my pilgrimage-like trip to the 9th Bring Your Own Film Festival at Puri, Odisha. Sea and cinema makes a deadly potion, whose hangover ensures that for the rest of my life, I’ll be in Puri every second last week of February. Add to that a bunch of crazy, carefree people who are singing, laughing and hooting away to glory for no apparent reason, for five days at a stretch, in a world that can’t stop counting fingers. Good food, cheap alcohol, legal grass and a free beach on which musicians, poets, filmmakers, painters, sculptors, dancers let go of all that is tangible and release their medium of expression. Puri turns paradise indeed, as my imageries of the Beat Generation come alive.
As wild as it sounds, the 9th Byoff was inaugurated by the...
It has been a couple of days since I returned from my pilgrimage-like trip to the 9th Bring Your Own Film Festival at Puri, Odisha. Sea and cinema makes a deadly potion, whose hangover ensures that for the rest of my life, I’ll be in Puri every second last week of February. Add to that a bunch of crazy, carefree people who are singing, laughing and hooting away to glory for no apparent reason, for five days at a stretch, in a world that can’t stop counting fingers. Good food, cheap alcohol, legal grass and a free beach on which musicians, poets, filmmakers, painters, sculptors, dancers let go of all that is tangible and release their medium of expression. Puri turns paradise indeed, as my imageries of the Beat Generation come alive.
As wild as it sounds, the 9th Byoff was inaugurated by the...
- 2/28/2012
- by Twish Mukherjee
- DearCinema.com
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