Bengali
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*something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia
* Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region
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novelist and poet Nabarun Bhattacharya. Fyatarus are lower class flying human beings who like to make chaos in the so-called
civil society
Civil society can be understood as the "third sector" of society, distinct from government and business, and including the family and the private sphere. These characters are the part of creation of Bhattacharya's
Magic realism
Magical realism, magic realism, or marvelous realism is a style or genre of fiction and art that presents a realistic view of the world while incorporating magical elements, often blurring the lines between speculation and reality. ''Magical re ...
.
Origin
Nabarun Bhattacharya introduced Fyataru as a magical set of human beings to Bengali readers. It is believed that Fyataru was the most outstanding creations of his literary life. The Fyataru first appears in a short story published in ''Proma'' magazine in 1995. The word ''fyat'' means the sound created by kites while they are flow and ''uru'' relates with flying. Further in
Bengali language
Bengali, also known by its endonym and exonym, endonym Bangla (, , ), is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-Iranian languages, Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family. ...
'fyat' also implies something worthless. Fyatarus belong to marginal section of society, who unsettle diabolical political structures and evil interests through pinpointed mayhem. They are anarchist, underclass in nature, fond of sabotage and are capable of flying whenever they utter the fyataru's anthem "fyat fyat sh(n)aai sh(n)aai". This anthem was made into a song by a Bangla band
Chandrabindu
Chandrabindu (IAST: , in Sanskrit) is a diacritic sign with the form of a dot inside the lower half of a circle. It is used in the Devanagari (เค), Bengali-Assamese (), Gujarati (เช), Odia (เฌ), Tamil (โ๐ Extension used from Grant ...
in one of its albums. They appear in his books ''Mausoleum'', ''Kaangaal Maalshaat'', ''Fatarur Bombachaak'', ''Fyatarur Kumbhipaak and Mobloge Novel''. Fyatarus can easily use slangs and sub-altern language.
Adaptations
Many
Kolkata
Kolkata, also known as Calcutta ( its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal. It lies on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River, west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary ...
based theatre group adapted the stories of Fyataru and performed. Director
Suman Mukhopadhyay
Suman Mukhopadhyay (), or Suman Mukherjee (born 20 November 1966) is an Indian film director.His popular films are Herbert (film), Kangal Malsat, Shesher Kobita (2014).
Career
Suman Mukhopadhyay's recently completed feature film "Putulnacher ...
picturised a fyataru based novel into a movie, ''
Kangal Malsat
''Kangal Malsat'' ("War Cry of the Have-Nots") is a 2013 Indian Bengali-language political satire film directed by Suman Mukhopadhyay and based on the novel of the same name written by Nabarun Bhattacharya. , the Central Board of Film Certificat ...
'' in 2013.
In 2013, a graphic novel named ''Kangal Malsat'', created by Madhuja Mukherjee based on the same name novel by Nabarun Bhattacharya. Both the film and the graphic novel released alongside.