Bow Barracks Forever

Afer a long time i saw a bollywood flick and i quite enjoyed the show. I had the facilities to understand bengali ( 25% of the dialogues are in bengali) so it didn't come as surprise to find the hall halfe-empty. Story of the movie is pretty straightforward, its about the lifes of people living in a very old heritage building where several generations of anglo indian families ( nearly 140 families) lived and still living there, descendents of american and british soldiers who resided in this garrison and established there since the world war II. This movie is a story about these people, who grew up in a mixed culture, all very much indian but still holding on to their anglo cultural heritage.

Although the story is not about any serious social issues or had any message left for people, it was quite the different than usual bollywood. Lillete and Neha dubey will remind you of Monsoon wedding. Lillete dubey did a good job on this. There were familiar faces for bengali audiences, Victor banerjee (peter the cheater), MoonMoon Sen, Avijit Dutt, Sabyasachi Chakravarty. Victor banerjee, unlike his role in Jogger's Park, played a very colorful character in this movie.

Direction is quite good and the story goes on a fast track, good enough for enjoying an evening.