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पूरे समय कार्टूनिस्ट्स की ही सेवा करते हैं राजनेता!

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जयपुर.भारत कार्टूनिस्ट्स के लिए स्वर्ग है, क्योंकि यहां के राजनेता पूरे समय कार्टूनिस्ट्स की ही सेवा करते हैं, यह कहना है देश के जाने-माने व्यंग्य चित्रकार सुधीर तैलंग का। यह बात उन्होंने शनिवार को उनके कृतित्व और व्यक्तित्व पर होटल राजपूताना शैरेटन में आयोजित टॉक शो में कही। हर रोज अपने व्यंग्य चित्रों के माध्यम से लोगों के दिलों को झकझोरने वाले सुधीर तैलंग कहते हैं कि उन्हें आज तक यह समझ में नहीं आया कि कार्टून बनते कैसे हैं?

हर सुबह जब उठता हूं, तो दिमाग विचारों से पूरी तरह शून्य होता है, पता नहीं होता है कि आज क्या करना है? आठ-दस अखबार पढ़ने के बाद अचानक कोई आइडिया दिमाग में कौंधता है और बन जाता है कार्टून। तैलंग के व्यंग्य चित्रों से जुड़ी तीस वर्ष से भी अधिक यात्रा को एंकर सालेहा गाजी ने बड़े ही रोचक और नफीस अंदाज में जीवंत किया। कार्यक्रम का माहौल भी काफी जीवंत रहा। तैलंग की रोचक बातों ने इस दौरान लोगों को जमकर ठहाके भी लगवाए। यह आयोजन राजस्थान नेशनल फोरम की ओर से
किया गया।

इन बातों ने खूब हंसाया

सबसे कठिन काम लालू प्रसाद यादव का कार्टून बनाना है, क्योंकि जो खुद ही कार्टून हो, उसका कार्टून कैसे बनाएं? बचपन का सबसे बड़ा सपना सिनेमा हॉल का गेटकीपर बनना था, क्योंकि मेरी नजर में वह बहुत पावरफुल व्यक्ति था, जो एक दिन में फिल्मों के चार-चार शो देखता है। फिल्म देखने आने वालों को भी निर्देश देता है और इसके बाद तनख्वाह भी लेता है।

बातों ही बातों में बनाए कार्टून

सुधीर ने कहा - व्यंग्य चित्र की इस यात्रा में उनके तीन सुपर हीरो रहे हैं। हीरो नंबर वन पीवी नरसिम्हा राव, हीरो नंबर दो लालकृष्ण आडवाणी और हीरो नंबर तीन लालू प्रसाद यादव। सुधीर ने मात्र चार मिनट की अवधि में वहां लगे बोर्ड पर पीवी नरसिम्हा राव का व्यंग्य चित्र बना दिया। उन्होंने लालकृष्ण आडवाणी का भी व्यंग्य चित्र बनाया।

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Posted: 07 Sep 2022 07:39 pm Comment

Laughing At Despair

LAUGHING AT DESPAIR

(SUNDAY MAGAZINE)

THE HINDUSTAN TIMES 1997

(HERE AND NOW)

A COLLECTION OF CARTOONS BY SUDHIR TAILANG

AMBIENCE PUBLISHING HOUSE,

A-23,MAYAPURI-II.NEW DELHI

RS 250 (HARD COVER),RS 150(PAPERBACK)

BY SUNEET CHOPRA

THE CARTOON IS PERHAPS ONE OF THE MOST SERIOUS FORMS OF ART.IT IS THE EXPRESSION OF THOSE SENSITIVE BEINGS WHO CANNOT HOLD BACK THEIR TEARS IN A TIME OF CRISIS AND CHOOSE TO LAUGH INSTEAD,INDIA HAS HAD A GOOD CROP OF CARTOONISTS WHO ARE ARTISTS QUALITY,LIKE GAGANENDRANATH TAGORE,SHANKER PILLAI,R.K.LAXMAN,MARIO MIRANDA,UNNY AND NOW SUDHIR TAILANG.SO ONE WOULD HAVE EXPECTED A GOOD APPRECIATION AND DOCUMENTATION OF CARTOONS.

THAT,HOWEVER,DID NOT HAPPEN,AS THE NEHRU ERA SPAWNED AN AGE OF DYNASTIC ILLUSIONS,PALACE INTRIGUES,A CENTRALIZATION OF POWER AS NEVER BEFORE AND THE CAPACITY TO MAKE EQUALLY DEVASTATING MISTAKES.IN SUCH A CONDITION A SENSE OF HUMOR HAD NO PLACE IN A WORLD OF SYCOPHANCY AND HYPERBOLE.

YET,LIFE REASSERTS ITSELF AT TIMES LIKE THESE IN STRANGE WAYS. RABINDRANATH LAMPOONED MUSSOLINI IN THE THIRTIES.GAGANENDRANATH MOCKED THE EMPIRE THAT PROMISED TO LAST FOR A THOUSAND YEARS BUT COLLAPSED IN LESS THAN THREE

DECADES OF HIS SAVAGE ATTACKS ON THEM.AND OUR PERIOD OF THE CIRCUS OF POUTING PIGEONS-FROM THE NEHRU-GANDHIS TO NARASIMHA RAO AND SSSSSSSESHAN -HAS ITS OWN CHRONICLER,SUDHIR TAILANG WHOSE BOOK "HERE AND NOW" IS MODESTLY TILTED,BUT OPENS SIGNIFICANT DOORS TO THE PAST AND FUTURE AS WELL.

HIS SENSITIVITY IS HIS STRONGEST WEAPON.HIS CARTOON OF MAHATMA GANDHI ON HIS SAMADHI WITH RAJIV GANDHI AND H.K.L BHAGAT LOOKING CURIOUSLY ALIKE IN DARK GLASSES,REMINDS ONE THAT FOR ALL THE IMAGE -PROJECTION.RAJIV GANDHI COULD NOT WASH AWAY THE STAINS OF THE DELHI RIOTS THAT FOLLOWED THE ASSISSINATION OF INDIRA GANDHI.INDIRA AND HER SUCCESSORS HAD INFACT RADICALLY ALTERED THE FACE OF POLITICS FROM THE DAYS OF THE NATIONAL MOVEMENT.THIS TAILANG CONFRONTS US VISUALLY.

HOWEVER IN HIS VISUAL OF THE 1989 ELECTIONS,WITH RAJIV GANDHI HOLDING THE STAND OF THE TROPHY,ADVANI THE BASE,V.P.SINGH THE CUP AND JYOTI BASU ITS COVER,AFTER THE 1989 ELECTIONS WAS AN EARLY UNDERSTANDING OF THE COALITION THAT WERE TO FOLLOW.

EVERY GOOD ARTIST HAS HIS OWN WAY OF DEALING WITH SITUATION.TAILANG IS NO EXCEPTIION.HIS STRENGTH LIES IN HIS BEING ABLE TO MOCK OTHERS WITHOUT BEING VIETERPERATIVE.HIS STUDY OF NARSIMHA RAO DOING AN M.F.HUSSAIN LIKE VISARJAN ON THE BANK SCAM THROUGH THE JOINT PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE IS A COMMENT EQUALITY ON POLITICAL ATTEMPTS TO WHITEWASH CORRUPTION AS ON THEIR SOCIAL FALLOUT OF THEATRICAL SOCIETY WHERE APPEARANCES TAKE OVER FROM REALITY.

YET,IT IS TO HIS CREDIT THAT HE PINPOINTS THAT REALITY WITH CLARITY THAT IS CHARACTERISTIC OF HIM.HE PRICKS THE BJP'S GOEBELLSIAN CAMPAIGN TO PROJECT ITSELF AS A WINNER BY DRAWING A CHARIOT WHOSE HORSES HAVE FLED TO KHAJURAHO.TAILANG'S CARTOONS ARE JUST WHAT WE NEED TODAY.

THEY GIVE US AN INSIGHT INTO HARD TIMES BUT MAKE US LAUGH AT THE CHALLENGES WE MUST FACE UP TO AND NOT DESPAIR.

EVERY MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT SHOULD HAVE THESE CARTOONS --TO PLACE NEXT TO HUSSAIN'S TONGUE-IN-CHEEK VISUAL ACCOUNT OF HIS TIME SPENT IN THE RAJYA SABHA.THE REST OF US WILL GO TO THE BOOKSTORES THAT ARE LIKELY TO DO VERY WELL WITH THIS DELIGHTFULLY SPONTANEOUS SET OF LAUGHS.

Posted: 07 Sep 2022 07:35 pm Comment

Between Humour & Distortion

BETWEEN HUMOUR AND DISTORTION

ART MAY 23/1997

THERE IS ONLY A THIN LINE DIVIDING A CARICATURE AND A POLITICIAN,SAYS CARTOONIST SUDHIR TAILANG WHOSE EXHIBITION IS NOW ON IN DELHI.GAYATRI SINHA WRITES.....

AS THE PACE SLACKENS UNDER THE ONSLAUGHT OF SUMMER,ART EXHIBITIONS GRADUALLY PETER OUT INTO A TRICKLE.OUT OF TOWN ARTISTS USUALLY USE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO APPEAR IN THE CITY'S ART CIRCUIT,WITH SOME DISTINCTLY REGIONAL MANIFESTATIONS IN ART.IN THIS "SILLY SEASON",SUDHIR TAILANG'S EXHIBITION OF CARTOONS IS A WELCOME RELIEF.

MOUNTED AT DELHI'S SHRIDHARANI GALLERY,IT COVERS EIGHT YEARS OF TAILANG'S CARTOONING CAREER,BEGINNING WITH RAJIV GANDHI'S SHARP DECLINE IN PUBLIC LIFE,TO THE UNEXPECTED ASCENDANCE OF MR INDERRRR KUMAR GUJRAL TO PRIME MINISTERSHIP.UNIFORMLY DRAWN FROM HIS COLUMN--"HERE AND NOW",THESE 100 CARTOONS HAVE BEEN SELECTED FROM A CORPUS OF ABOUT 3000 DRAWINGS,AND CENTRE ON THE SIX MAJOR POLITICAL PARTIES AND ALIGNMENTS IN THE COUNTRY DURING THIS EIGHT-YEAR PERIOD WHICH MAY WELL GO DOWN IN INDIAN HISTORY AS THE PERIOD OF CIRCUS ANTICS IN HIGH PLACES,WHEN THE DIVIDING LINE BETWEEN CARICATURE AND POLITICIAN BECAME VERY THIN."RAJIV'S DECLINE IN 1989 COINCIDED WITH MY RISE," SAYS TAILANG."IN FACT THE COMPLETE SCENARIO WAS THE BEST THING FOR A CARTOONIST,SINCE HE WAS THE BEST THING FOR A CARTOONIST.SINCE HE WAS COMPLETELY EMBROILED IN SCANDALS."RAJIV GANDHI ROCKING HAPLESSLY ON A TOY ROCKING HORSE IS TAILANG'S RECORD OF THE PRIME MINISTER'S INEFFECTUALITY'

RAJIV'S SUCCESSOR V.P.SINGH,WAS ANOTHER CARTOONIST'S FAVOURITE."V.P.SINGH WAS RULING THE ROOST,HE WAS RECEIVED AS A HERO,BUT HE ALSO CONTRIBUTED TO THE RISE OF SUDHIR TAILANG! THE CARTOONIST COMMENTS IRREPRESSIBLY.ONE OF TAILANG'S CARTOONS DEPICTS AN ASTROLOGER TELLING V.P.SINGH THAT SINGH HIMSELF IS THE FINEST ASTROLOGER.SINCE HE HIMSELF HAD PREDICTED THAT HE WOULD BE A DISASTER AS A PRIME MINISTER.

NARSIMHA RAO,WHO DELIGHTS TAILANG FOR HIS "FROG LIKE", VISAGE AND LONG PREGNANT SILENCES,IS THOROUGHLY CARICATURED,ESPECIALLY FOR HIS INORDINATELY LONG DELAY IN RESIGNING FROM THE PRESIDENTSHIP OF THE CONGRESS PARTY,EQUALLY,ADVANI'S RATH YATRA IN WHICH HE FANCIES HIMSELF AS A MODERN DAY RAM,LALOO PRASAD YADAV AND THE FODDER SCAM,DEVE GOWDA'S SNOOZE INTERSPERSED PUBLIC APPEARANCE ARE ALL GRIST FOR TAILANG'S MILL.SELF CONFESSEDLY,HE IS STILL WORKING ON GUJRAL,LOOKING FOR AREAS OF WEAKNESS THAT MAY BE EXPLOITED.

AS A CARTOONIST TAILANG FOLLOWS BROADLY IN THE TRADITION OF SHANKER PILLAI AND LAXMAN WHOSE INTENTION IS TO EVOKE A COMIC RATHER THAN A SATIRIC RESPONSE.HIS AREA OF INTEREST IS ALMOST COMPLETELY POLITICAL,ALTHOUGH SOCIAL CULPABILITY PREJUDICE AND SUPERSTITION ALSO COME IN FOR OCCASIONAL ATTACK.HIS RESPONSE TO THE HUGE PUBLIC BELIEF IN GANESHA'S MILK-DRINKING MIRACLE IS TO SHOW THE ELEPHANT HEADED GOD DRINKING STRAIGHT FROM A MOTHER DAIRY MILK TANKER.HERE THE HAPLESS ATTENDENT COMES AND SAYS THAT THE MILK IS FINISHED,BUT THERE IS STILL SOME ICE-CREAMS!! PUBLIC RESPONSE IS NOT UNIFORMLY APPRECIATIVE,AFTER THIS GANESHA CARTOON WAS PUBLISHED,HE RECEIVED ABOUT THREE HUNDRED PHONE CALLS,MOST OF THEM THREATENING.

TAILANG SAYS THAT HE MAKES A THOROUGH STUDY OF HIS SUBJECTS-----THROUGH TELEVISION,PUBLIC MEETINGS AND RALLIES---AND RECORDS QUIRKS OF SPEECH AND BEHAVIOUR.WITH THE PASSAGE OF TIME,HE FEELS THAT TASK OF THE CARTOONIST IS BECOMING HARDER,NOTWITHSTANDING THE CONSTANT ENTERTAINMENT ON THE POLITICAL STAGE."EARLIER THERE WAS A DIVIDING LINE BETWEEN THE POLITICIAN AND A CARICATURE: NOW THAT LINE IS SLOWLY DISAPPEARING.""RATHER THAN GIVING US TIME TO DISTORT THEM,THEY THEMSELVES ARE DISTORTED." TAILANG ALSO STRIKES A DIFFERENT STANCE HERE BY PUTTING HIS CARTOONS UP FOR SALE, PERHAPS BEING THE FIRST CARTOONIST TO PUT UP HIS WORK AS A SALEBLE ART FORM.

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