Soja Kothai Prem Kore Jao

Those days we used to call Thriving-Bengal Days, or more accurately at the tangential top of the inverted-smiley-face curve, if I may call, just before started everything declining. Planned-City-Chittaranjan to Barakar to Asansol, Planned-City-Burnpur to Ranigang to Planned-City-Durgapur - everywhere thriving.

Our village is situated about 7kms from Chittaranjan and on /Viswakarma/ puja day we will visit Chittaranjan Locomotive Factory or Hindusthan Cables Factory, because on that day factories used to open for public. Each of the department would perform their own Puja (Kudo's to those dedicated Surveyors, they knew simple ways to compete, and to inspire) and distribute Prasad to all the visitors.  And our enjoyment was to see those biiiig machines, huge belts, super-size fans, mystic Sirens - "Ei dyekh dyekh ei tau baaje-rea, Baba rea oto dhur thyei-ke shyun-te pai". While walking back we would steal some "Roma Suti" from the fields and enjoy the happy bites.

[Do you remember free clinic, free medicine at Hindustan Cables Hospital for all the near and dear ones, and friends of the employees? :-(, Heee Bhagoban!, Heee Thakur!)]

Got little carried away, sorry!

And on Viswakarma Puja days, the movie tickets demand in Srimati and Ranjan Theater used to touch sky. I saw my very first Movie in Cinema Hall, Ticket Rs. 3/-, Middle Stall along with few of my class mates. Then I was 11 years old. The name of the movie was "Shatru".

Well, whoever knows, the movie was all about weep, weep, and again weep from Chottu to everyone else inside the Cinema Hall and beyond.

One of my friend (say U) got the Aisle Seat, and during the Thumka song, as the Ghagra would go up, his head would go down. And another friend (say N) would not be able understand why U was heading down! So he gave a nice elbow-job and asked, "Ki rea, tuke Chharpoka te kaitchhe naki, ou rokom hursur fusur korchhis?".

Well, later in our evening Adda session, we had a huge debate that the movie screen shares same view for all the viewers because of its uniform-scattering-effects-of-lights property, i.e. even you head down you cannot get any bonus view... No...Nada!

Enjoy: "Soja kothai prem kore jao... Noksha koro naaa..":


Dao Bhai, amader onek bhul hoye gechhe, dao ek-du mutho doya kore ebar...

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