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Whiskey And Suicide - And Other Stories
Whiskey and Suicide paints a kaleidoscope of myriad emotions of the Indian middle class families. In a very informal storytelling style, it narrates the dilemmas of the urban families in dealing with the conflicting emotions arising due to contradictory desires. It is the bonds of family and friendship that allow the protagonists to deal with these crises which are depicted by Manik Bal in a detached but empathetic narrative style reminiscent of the great “slice of life” storytellers of the east and the west.
Modern India is a complex place with the variety of demographics ranging from the multi billionaires to people who are not able to get a day's meal. Whiskey and Suicide is empathetic without being condescending.
Brothers Sen Gogh
Manik Bal's ambitious mashup that revises the Van Gogh story, travels through the dirty lanes and the seedy bars of Mumbai and portrays the ambitious upcoming artists and their ceaseless struggle to make it big . It uses the Van Gogh Brothers story as a template to sketch the core issues of human creativity and material success.
Creating a fictional world of indie music scene in Mumbai, Brothers Sen Gogh maps the characters like Soubhik, Sourav, Nethra, Indrani and Prashant that have something common but a lot different to Vincent, Theo, Sien and Gauguin creating a Coenesque plot.
