Bong connection

By Debjani Basu

Prologue:-


[It’s about the recently released Beng-lish (involving both the languages Bengali and English) movie “The Bong Connection”, claimed to be a crossover film directed by Anjan Dutta…No I’m not going to write another sort of film-review here…but previously I read an article on it which pointed it as a satirical take on Bengali lives…I don’t agree, honestly, I didn’t find any satire at all…So did that movie really connect the Bongs? Or it fails to do so…otherwise, why our interpretations contradict, and these two don’t connect? ]



Just imagine...North Pole’s moving downwards to touch the Southern oneand the South Pole’s doing just the opposite.That's the simple quintessence of the filmnot a "film", rather an encapsulation of the mindset of today's youth.

Initialization involves two parallel journeys...Person-One from New York to Calcutta in quest of musicProbably in its truest form...not perverted by modern orchestra,And Person-Two heads to Houston from CalcuttaFloating in the blow of hi-tech IT waves...

Time passes by...Gradually their eventful lives get fulfilled with more events
After hunting at the grass-root level, Person-One realizes --Calcutta has moved far ahead the era of Tagore.Young’s here enjoy at clubs, listen to band-musicTorn between tradition & modernity, they've lost their originalityOlder ones pretend to be intellectual giants Who always criticize without trying to solve the problems,To make this place sluggish, stagnant, paralyzedAnd ultimately fails to realize his dreams.

Person-Two goes beyond the situation of any realizationHe stumbles and mumbles as a fish-out-of-water does.Though it takes up lots of days for getting accustomedbut he remains the same Bengali guy till the endbeing failed to shed-off his strain of inner tradition.

Thus two failures converges their lives at the same pointthough their storylines started parallelingthe connecting-factor may be "The Bong Connection"...But did it really connect the Bongs (colloquial name for Bengalis)?