CALCUTTA - Part 3 of 3

Third part of an affectionate 70mins documentary about life in the great West Bengali city of Calcutta - now Kolkata, and once 'the Paris of Asia - as told by a dozen of the people who love to live there. Filmed in 1989 by Peter Middleton. Channel 4 TV. From a VHS tape.

[@richardboudville5188]

Thank you Christopher Sykes. I was born in Calcutta 1942 but returned to Burma after WWII, with my parents who took refuge in Calcutta during the Japanese occupation of Burma. Though I have visited Calcutta a few times while working on a ship, this has given me a better understanding of life in this city to some depth.
Perth, Western Australia is now my home for the past 43 years.

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[@perikaveera4438]

Calcutta: The Mother of Modern India.
I'm from Bombay, Marathi speaking, been living in the United States for 25 years and have never been to Calcutta. It has always been my desire although there's a lot of negative things said about this great city. Calcutta can never be Bombay and Bombay can never be Calcutta.
Even today, when you look at old pictures or films showing Calcutta, you can almost sense that old world imperial greatness of the city coexisting with the progressive, intellectual yet nationalistic Bengali spirit which gave India it's greatest scientists, poets, artists, economists, freedom fighters and revolutionaries. It gave us Guruji Rabindranath Tagore, Satyendranath Bose, J.C.Bose, Netaji Bose. It gave the world classics like Tagore's Geetanjali, like Pather Panchali (both the book by Bibhutibhushan Banerjee and movie by Satyajit Ray). It was this city that was so representative of the Eastern world besides being the real jewel in the British Crown. What London was to the west Calcutta was to the east. It gave India it's Indianness, it's Indian pride.
Today this once greatest of cities may have fallen into decay but so have all great cities and empires eventually. I have no reservations in calling Calcutta the "Mother of Modern India".
My annual visits to India (actually, only Bombay) are typically brief, 3 or 4 weeks but soon I will make the time to take a trip to Calcutta and pay my homage to this great city without which India would not be India as we know it today!
JACKSON, Mississippi.

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[@abhishekchatterjee6162]

Kumar Bose.. He used to come to my Mama's house in Bagbazar. He is a very humble and nice person.

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Sorry, there are only three parts. I've re-labelled it...

[@abhisek2091]

thanks for the video i was born in Calcutta in 1992 and am really enthralled to c this video as life before my existence :)

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[@ddsbharat7414]

Thank you sir for uploading the wonderful video. My 12 year old kid is so much enthusiastic to know about 80's Kolkata which has changed so much in these decades. All old values and nostalgic days reminds my old days.

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[@dekriti]

Thank u Christopher Sykes for ur gft! I m frm Calcutta/Kolkata...but now far frm it ...
And you make me fl dat i was wrong... i m still in the City of Joy... becz it is within me

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[@Rajj854]

Beautiful, thanks

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nice series, thanks

[@BabylonPatrol]

awesome! thank you so much!

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a hidden gem.thank u mr.uploader

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[@photobythomas8936]

Hi Chrisopher, Fascinating documentary. I will just mention that it could use an IMDB record. Anyway, thanks for sharing this with us. I found it quite moving.

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[@Sthmohtwenty]

Calcutta my inspiration

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[@arjunchatterjee9362]

The dude in the beginning looks like pete townshend from The Who.

[@MrThereader]

Superbe. Where is Part 4?

[@abdhfhhffh]

This is the last part of the series

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[@subhashdas9152]

Mr Kumar bose look like a sanjay dutt

[@mengniuhk5923]

wonderful documentary!
I always want to know the City and this serves good!
I lost track of how to judge life with how people lives. I always ask why my people, the Chinese, like to live their life in chaos and rubbish bin like of environment. Calcutta people seem to fit into my comment but this documentary tell me more than that, they are not ,,, though they live in a rubbish bin way of life too!.

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[@dhawalanand4013]

Calcutta was happy and gay...then came momota banerjee