fictional character
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of
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
Nabarun Bhattacharya (23 June 1948 – 31 July 2014) was an Indian writer in Bengali language. He was born at Berhampur, West Bengal. He was the only child of actor and playwright Bijon Bhattacharya and writer, activist Mahashweta Devi. His mat ...
. 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.
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 ( ), generally known by its endonym Bangla (, ), is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Bengal region of South Asia. It is the official, national, and most widely spoken language of Bangladesh and the second most widely spoken o ...
'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 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 (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...
based theatre group adapted the stories of Fyataru and performed. Director Suman Mukhopadhyay picturised a fyataru based novel into a movie, ''
Kangal Malsat
''Kangal Malsat'' ("War Cry of the Have-Nots") is a Bengali 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 Certification denied approval to ...
'' in 2013.
In 2013, a graphic novel named ''Kangal Malsat'', created by Madhuja Mukherjee is also published from Saptarshi Prakashan based on the novel Kangal Malsat by Nabarun Bhattacharya. Both the film and the graphic novel released alongside.