1. Movie watch : Blackout : In pursuit of dreams ``... the director has tried to draw his personal experiences in the film. his background as a poet and painter is strongly visible in the film. thus the autobiographical elements are there. the visuals can be related to modern poetry. the theme is the life of a young artist caught between dream and reality, with energy to pursue the dream, notwithstanding the results. as a director Tokon Thaakoor has the knack of compiling images which is comandiable...’’ - Manzer-e- Haseen Murad, Documentary & Fiction Filmmaker, Editor, Film Journal DRISHYOROOP and Film Activist Comments on culture, the daily star, on 23 September 2006 3. BLACKOUT: A VIGOROUS-BOLD-EXPERIMENTAL STORY WITHOUT A TALE ... The prime criterion of this video fiction is its statelessness; self-perception dominates here as does in experimental short story. A used-to-viewer of simple narrative cinematography doesn’t feel ease here. This is rather an expression of feelings of this transition period youth- as a poetry, or as an artwork, partly revealed, the rest remains unrevealed. Blackout will definitely touch those young afflicted with creativity-love-lust-liquor-agony; also those non-young interested to realize the present-day youth. Rather the director didn’t follow the usual narrative of conventional documentary or feature-film; he went through the complex experimental course of metaphor-metaphysics in addition to animation. Probably, it is the Blackout presents before us with large-scale experimental relish ever in our country. Fahmidul Haque : Assistant Professor, Department of Mass Media Communications & Journalism, Dhaka University, Film Researcher. 4. The story line of Blackout starts with illusionary childhood memories of a village child who got punishment due to taking cigarette behind the bamboo field. He plays skew in the bamboo bridge with his dreamy girl what influence his urban bohemian life. Stay alone in a lonely open roof place. When the other hero artist promised to love his modern model girl but finally lost her. What is a digital poem of Tokon Thaakon written by camera in steed of pen with excellence diversity... Bakhtiar Ahmed, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Rajshahi University Presently stay at Australia for research work