Separated by just a month, two films set in Bengal and about Bengalis are on offer from Bollywood. As April began, Dibakar Banerjee brought a Bengali sleuth and colonial Calcutta to national attention in Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! Tomorrow arrives Shoojit Sircar’s Piku, the story of a hypochondriac father and his long suffering daughter.
Set several decades apart, Piku and Byomkesh nevertheless inhabit similar worlds which orbit around the central notion of Bengaliness. Importantly, this is not Bollywood’s notion of Bengaliness but an insider’s view of a culture and a people. Both Dibakar and Shoojit are true-blue Bengali bhadralok – the first a ‘probashi’ from Delhi, the second a Barrackpore boy who has already once offered Bollywood a window into the Bengali soul with Vicky Donor.
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Priyanka Goyal
