A man of infinitely gifted calibre whose palate of colours never ceases to amaze one, celebrated women's day in the accurately designed gallery representing the true metaphor of nature, art and womankind at Lokayata, New Delhi on 8th March, 2006, transforming a bare gallery with the touch and the feeling of the sublime. This beautiful set left Gursharan Kaur, Indira Goswami, Bindeshwar Pathak and several others spell bound. Chandan Chakraborty curator of Lokayata and an aficionado of art critiques his works and comments "This works are neither over ornamented, nor bordering on the edge of loud or garish. As a connoisseur of art his trained eye not only looks deeper beyond the surface, but enables him to aesthetically execute every project of his as a masterpiece in its own right. His talent as an artish has seem him at the Academy of Fine Arts, the Birla Academy and Sourav's centre for Art and Culture where his paintings and art works were exhibited singularly, but being of an extremely modest nature he has done several group shows with renowned artists. His creations can be admired in Kolkata at the stunningly decorated Chinese restaurant at Tollyguange Club and at the very elite "Sonar Tari" restaurant at the Anderson Club. A humble , hardworking, master craftsman, a mature and cultivated artist, Rupchand Kundu has not only created a niche for himself in the geography of Indian Art, but his artist acumen cannot be rivalled. In his own words he says, "my bachelor's degree in science from Seth Anandaram Jaipuria College, served me no higher purpose since my lifelong passion in the arts took my educational career to pursue an arts degree from the Government College of Art & Crafts in Kolkata where I acquired a first class distinction in the year 1984." But in the course of the next few years his science background proved invaluable as an art director in the film world. His keen technical eye helped his perspective in assembling and crafting the brilliant and extraordinary sets of films such as "Baradin" directed by Anjan Dutta, "Swapner Sandhane" directed by Ashoke Viswanathan, Urmi Chakraborty's film "Hemanter Pakhi", Raja Sen's "Desh", Tapan Sinha's series of six short films "Daughter of the century and "Anokhi Moti". Also as an art director he has worked on serials, talk shows, documentary films, for several well known television channels the likes of Doordarshan in both Kolkata and Delhi, Zee TV, Tara Bangla, E.TV. directing for as many as 1175 episodes of the mega serial "Ek Akasher Niche", 400 episodes of "Mohini". In the area of advertisement films and television commercials not only was he the art director but worked in the capacity of a concept writer and worked for big banner names like Burger paints, Khadim, Close-up, Bata to name just a few. A man of various talents he is undoubtedly meritorious and has been awarded the BFJA Award three times for film production, the SBI award for best pavillion at the 300 years Calcutta Ceremony, Singapore Airlines Award for best pavillion at the Travel Fair. In the last seven years his commendable efforts helped him bag several accolades and adulations for Best Puja Mandap and Best Idol from the Telegraph, Star Plus, Asain Paints, The Times of India and Statesman. In a country where the limelight, credit and ovations are consistently given to the stars, the actors & directors, some rather important people are forgotten, those whose endeavours backstage help bring about the true magic of cinema. In tmes such as these Rupchand Kundu would like more acknowledgements and awards for the technicians, the backstage and sets crew. In this give and take liaison the human race revolves around, through his last project titled Earth Under The Sky at the Habitat Centre, New Delhi on World Environment Day he seeked through determination to give society an in depth view into the pathetic lives of the "prostitutes" for whom we are responsible and guilty to have labelled a section of womanhood as sinfull, illegal, poisonous and immoral. This project of his take us to a journey through the history of a necessary evil that prevails in our society order "SEX TRADE". Truly it is safe to conclude that his muse is his own spirit that is as effervescent as the essence of life and his heart brimming over with concern in a paradigm of uncensored paradox.
Abhik Bhattacharjee
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