u/ByomkeshBeyond

Apnara Shobor porechen ba dekhechen? Segulor moddhe Kolkatar ekta bisesh bhumika ache. Ei jemon notun Daredevil show tay New York ekta mukkho choritro chitronattye. Ba dhorun apni jodi Japani sahittyo pore thaken... jemon Kyosuke Kindaichi, sekhane dekhben proti ta golpo sei somoy er contemporary social structure, rajneeti ebong bhougolik bhabe jorito.

Ami serokom kichu Bangla thriller/mystery boi porte chaichi, jegulo somosamoyik itihas, culture ba Rajnoitik bhabe rooted. Hoyto Byomkeshi sobcheye beshi ei description fit kore, kintu segulo amar bohu bohu kaal aagei pora hoye gechi.

Nomoshkar. Quite a few people on the sub know me, but what they don't know is that... I'm also a filmmaker. Trained in all areas. I write screenplays for fun, it's like a relaxing activity I do.

After returning to the city after 6 years, I relaised how alone I've become here. I want to keep the creative spark alive but after college/university, the biggest challenge has been finding collaborators. My creative boys... there's no one left in Kolkata. I haven't made anything in the past couple of years and that kinda makes me feel like shit.

So with the advent of the new govt. where the existing red tapes are potentially going to get loose and there's no "gupi shooting" in the picture... can't we get back to the craft. We do it not for numbers, metrics or social validation. We do it, coz. our psychic entity won't survive without doing it.

Filmmaking is a beautiful art which you just can't do alone, so I’m looking to form a small creative collective with people in and around Kolkata. A group of individuals with certain skill sets, who can regularly collaborate to make short (potentially long), meaningful pieces. The idea is simply to keep creating, learn from each other, and build something authentic together.

If you are based in and around Kolkata and this sounds like your thing, then let's do it.

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Khub kanna pacche.

I saw a post today in the sub and shared my experience in the comments... and I think I should share it with the broader audience base of this sub.

So a crazy thing happened with me some days back. I had made a post on this sub, and someone DM'ed me with curiosity. We were of the same age, both 26. Conversation was going good, she showed good energy, good interest. As the conversation was becoming more and more personal, out of nowhere, she asked my surname. I was like, whaaaat? I openly told that I'm not a Bamun. She insisted, so I told her my surname. And that's it. That felt like a nail in the coffin. All that energy and curiosity? Gone in a whim. Complete silence after some time. She was indeed a Brahmin, btw.

So imagine... It's 2026, and we've got caste-based texting. Jerokom rajnoitik hawa... bhobissote ei rajjye aaro ki hobe ke jaane.