Nicholas Carr:
"Nostalgia is nothing new. It has been a refrain of art
and literature at least since Homer set Odysseus on Calypso's island and had
him yearn to turn back time."
Sathnam Sanghera :
“…this relentless nostalgia is unhealthy because it saps our
age of character. Think of the Sixties and a host of strong images spring to
mind: flower power, the Beatles, civil rights marches. Similarly vibrant images
come to mind in relation to the Seventies — flares, unemptied bins, strikes —
and the Eighties — braces, Filofaxes, Wham. But is there anything that can
pinpoint the flavour of the Nineties and Noughties apart from the popularity of
laminate flooring? The past is so massively a part of our present that it’s
hard to define what the present is about.”
Which are reportedly most successful Marathi entertainers over the past year or so?
A feature film called "Katyar Kaljat Ghusali" (कट्यार काळजात घुसली) based on the popular play of the same name, first staged in 1967 and another feature "Natasamrat: Asa Nat Hone Nahi" (नटसम्राट: असा नट होणे नाही) based on another popular play of the same name (नटसम्राट) first staged in 1970.
Both the films don't reinterpret the almost 50-year old original plays but just re-present them.
I strongly believe both the movies are towering examples of the zest of middle-class, urban, young and old Marathi speaking people for nostalgia (स्मरणरंजन).
Loksatta (लोकसत्ता) dated January 24 2016 reported the books that had most demand during the Akhil Bhartiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan (अखिल भारतीय मराठी साहित्य संमेलन) held in the same month.
Four of the top five books were first published at least forty years ago.
courtesy: the late Vilas Sarang (विलास सारंग), 'Sarjanshodh aani lihita lekhak' (सर्जनशोध आणि लिहिता लेखक), 2007
Artist: Liana Finck, The New Yorker, November 2015