Early Influences......

" Whats wrong with felu da"? one day neo asked! how come one be so dominating when it comes to searching a clue"?; that tall man is just too perfect!! Early teens, Vacations, soothing afternoons neo used to exploit every moment reading Satyajit Ray's Works. Neo still remembers how he used to ape felu da and roam around the big villa searching arbitrary clues.

Neo remembers Charles Dickens being someone whom he really admired when he was a kid. Dickens was not only the most influential novelist of the victorian Era but was also someone who lived in his characters. Dickensian characters—especially their typically whimsical names—are among the most memorable in English literature. The likes of Ebenezer Scrooge, Fagin, Mrs. Gamp, Charles Darnay, Oliver Twist, Micawber, Abel Magwitch, Samuel Pickwick, Miss Havisham, Wackford Squeers, and many others are so well known and can be believed to be living a life outside the novels that their stories have been continued by other authors.

If you are bengali teen u must have admired Satyajit Ray in some way or the other. He is a versatile genius when it comes to creativity and imagination and he redefined bengali literature by his very simple and lucid way of writing. He gave us many memorable characters but Neo enjoys Professor shankhu the most, the 1st BengaLI schi-fi attempted for sure. Felu da, though has been largely influenced by Sherlock Holmes is another legendary creation by Ray.

As Neo said earlier Paintings are in his blood. He has a long list of painters whom he admires. Out of them two painters are just beyond expression. The first one has to be Leonardo Da Vinci, he was an Italian polymath, being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the renaissance man, a man whose unquenchable curiosity was equaled only by his powers of invention. From verocchio's Workshop paintings in 1466-1476 to the famous Mona Lisa or " La Gioconda" the laughing one. The Mona Lisa painting is famous, in particular, for the elusive smile on the woman's face, its mysterious quality brought about perhaps by the fact that the artist has subtly shadowed the corners of the mouth and eyes so that the exact nature of the smile cannot be determined. The shadowy quality for which the work is renowned came to be called "sfumato" or Leonardo's smoke. Neo always enjoyed the color mixing and the use of shades in Leonardo's Painting's, simply legendary.

The second and particularly the one whom Neo tried to ape was the famous 'Pablo Piccasso'. Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was an Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. As one of the most recognized figures in 20th-century art, he is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and his depiction of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. he was the Expressionists of his time and he propouned the concepts of figure painting like any other painter. However his works were equally controversial due to nude depiction of woman in most of his figure sketches. Picasso still remains on of the most influential painters in Neo's life and his works so far.

There are many other names which always perplexes Neo's mind, but one common thing Neo observed in all these Legendary people is their power of expressing and way of expressing visions , imaginations, creative stincts and the positive vibes that is reflected in their works which cannot be explained in terms but can only be Felt and observed and followed.........