With Love, Calcutta !

Between Calcutta & Kolkata falls the shadow! The choice between preserving 300 years rich history & heritage or accepting modernity and consumerism with all its pompous glory, between choosing to remain cut off from the pace of other cities or embracing globalization, between the desire to make time irrelevant or changing with time, between being comfortable in remaining “City of Joy” or aspiring to “Become City of Hope” can be an unnerving one for any city with traces of humanity and shades of past, let alone Calcutta. There is a constant conflict between the old & the new. They say “Change is the only constant”, but “Poriborton” demands its share of sacrifices.    And these contrasts and conflicts are the essence of all the short stories in “With Love, Calcutta”. There is nothing common in them except the city.

The play brings out plethora of emotions, questions convention, harps back on bygone era, hypes over a colourful future, reflects on contrasting thoughts that moves continuously to arrive at a compromise, talks about existentialism  , makes you nostalgic and forces you to fall in love once again with the city , its absurdities , its idiosyncrasies . Most of the performances are Top notch.  They move you. The live music adds depth to the narration.  Video projection has been used very intelligently to make the play impactful. And in case you have missed the play right now log on to you tube and listen to “ Byartho Sahoro” & December’er Sohoro”

“With Love, Calcutta “leaves you with a lump in your throat. It is an ode to the city, its people and the immense possibilities.

“After all when it comes to the could have been Calcutta can be such a bitch”

Take a bow my MAD bunch of prodigies.

With Love -