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Bow Barracks Forever - Notepad
Bow Barracks Forever
quick review:
Bow Barracks Forever has some well-etched out characters and excellent acting by most of the cast. Unfortunately though, the story is pretty much static and has no support whatsoever from the dialogues.
This page has additional observations, other than the ones noted in the main review.
Plot Summary
This movie is about the inhabitants of Bow Barracks, Calcutta. A set of two buildings that is more than a 100 years old. Its about how they deal with the problems in their lives.
What Worked
- Accents of all the characters - whether they were genuine or not, I wouldn't be able to tell. But they were quiet consistent.
What did not
Note: This section simply lists the things that I did not like in this movie. This is not the overall impression about this movie. Please read the full review here
- The first five minutes scared me. The acting was like watching a play by amateurs. But, of course, as the movie progressed there was no trace of that.
- When Emily (Lillete Dubey) finds the little boy under her bed, there is another boy, Anwar, beside him. But she notices Anwar only after he has crawled out from under the bed. Too delayed a response.
- Another delayed response - Usha Uthup knows Peter (Victor Banerjee) but recognizes him only after being in his presence for about a minute.
- The Muslim lady goes about thanking people before leaving, whereas all these people wanted was for her family to leave Bow Barracks.
Nitty-Gritty
This section lists things that I think are not important to the overall impact of the movie. In most cases, it could be explained away by something like, "we noticed the glitch after the scene was shot and there were schedule/budget issues and thus we could not re-shoot it". I like giving the makers the benefit of doubt, but I am amused nevertheless. Hopefully, they will tickle you too.
- Anne (Neha Dubey) has a 5-6 year old boy. She is drying clothes - a few amongst which would fit a 1-2 year old.
- Peter (Victor Banerjee) is talking about it being a wonderful Christmas Party, while he is actually organizing a wedding party.
Bow Barracks Forever - Movie Details
- Official Sites: Website
- Banner: Pritish Nandy Communications
- Producer: Rangita Pritish Nandy, Pritish Nandy
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- Director: Anjan Dutt
- Lead Cast: Lilette Dubey, Victor Bannerjee, Neha Dubey, Clayton Rodgers
- Supporting Cast: Moon Moon Sen, Sabyasachi Chakravarthy
- Screenplay: Anjan Dutt
- Editor: Arghya Kamal Mitra, Hemal Kothari
- Music Director: Neel Dutt, Anjan Dutt
- Lyrics: Anjan Dutt, Neel Dutt, Usha Uthup
- Costume Designer: Chanda Dutt
- Art Direction: Tonmoy Chakraborty
- Running time: 120 minutes
- Reviewer: meetu
- Categories: Hindi Movies
- Genres: Noir
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External Reviews
11 reviewers have given Bow Barracks Forever an average rating of 2.3/5.0. 3 yays, 4 nays, 4 so-so. See all external reviews »
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Comments (10)
Review - Bow Barracks Forever...
Bow Barracks Forever has some well-etched out characters and excellent acting by most of the cast. Unfortunately though, the story is pretty much static and has no support whatsoever from the dialogues....
[...] Meetu : “Unfortunately, the screenplay and the dialogues make this a drag to watch. Thirty minutes shorter and the movie would improve on both counts, because inevitably all the repetitive lines would have to see the door.” [...]
Bore.ever For.ever
The movie is hilarious because it is so far from the truth. The producer and director took the worst part of Bow Barracks and portrayed it in a cheap way - there are other parts of Bow Barracks which were not shown. The cast was all Bengali and though the accent was pretty close, the storyline is ridiculous. Like every other community in India, there are the folks who do well and those who don't - nothing was portrayed of the Anglo Indians who had the cream of the crop jobs in India or who went to Colleges and did well and trust me there was a majority of them residing in Calcutta.
The movie is best rated as a comedy of errors.
That is good to know. Not that the audience is naive enough to believe that all anglo-indians live a sad, deprived life, but it was so lop-sided is sad. Oh well...
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Just happenned to watch this DVD the other day.
The movie is good only in the end - because it comes to an end with a beautiful song - It is just a run of the mill love story nothing more set in the ghetto type background - does not really bring out anything.
Fully agree with the review and the comments above. Unfortunately there are dierctors like Anjan Dutt and others who think that they can do good movies but end up doing poor work. They think showing crude sex scenes they will make it big like the festival films. The sly idea is only to get the crowds not really any thing else. Sex used to sell well in India movies earlioer. But now because of the internet everything is easy and cheap. So this masala has'nt worked. The best part of the film are the marvellous performances of Victor Banerjee, Lillet Dubey and the guy who did the role of Bradley. The film just drags on with the same dialogues and same action on and on . It should have been atleast an hour shorter.
Anglo Indian life style has not really come out at all and very ametureish attempt. It has all been aptly commented above - hence I will not add to it. Just wish to say that the film world would not have been any poorer if this movie was not made. The film does not make us think much and neither does it make us feel any more deeply for the Anglo Indian Community who were much misunderstood - for various reasons and not treated fairly by all. They really lived in a very strange world of their own This was so thoughtfully shown in Aparna Sens 36 Chowringhee Lane.
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