The Bitter Bongs

In this new segment called Decade of Decay, we talk about Bengali movies from the 90's that were so bad that they are good.

In this week's episode we talk about the 1995 movie called Sansar Sangram which sees Chiranjit credited as the story, screenplay, producer and director. He also plays the protagonist of the movie along with Ranjit Mullick, Satabdi Roy, Rituparna Sengupta, Dulal Lahiri, Shankar Chakraborty, Anup Kumar and others.

In this week's watchlist, we talk about the new web series on Hoichoi app called Murder in the Hills. It is created by Anjan Dutt and stars Arjun Chakrabarty, Rajdeep Gupta, Sourav Chakraborty, Anindita Bose, Suprobhat Das, Sandipta Sen, Rajat Ganguly and Saswati Guha Thakurta. Set in Darjeeling, we see the death of film legend Tony (played by Dutt) and follow the investigative efforts of Arjun as tries to unravel the mystery and motive behind what seems to be a natural death. 

We also talk about 2 short films, Natkhat and Adi Sonal, which are part of the Voot Select Film Festival. Both short stories have a similar theme of gender inequality and injustices done towards women both in their own family as well as the outside society. 

In this new segment called Decade of Decay, we talk about Bengali movies from the 90's that were so bad that they are good.

In this week's episode we talk about the 1999 movie called Santan starring Satya Bandopadhay, Geeta Dey, Ranjit Mallick, Chumki Choudhury, Biplab Chatterjee, Rita Koiral, Tapas Pal and others.

In this week's watchlist, we talk about the movie Toofan on Amazon Prime and a Bengali movie Hiralal on Hoichoi

We also discuss the 2nd and 3rd part of Fear Street on Netflix and Masterchef Australia 2021.

In this new segment called Decade of Decay, we talk about Bengali movies from the 90's that were so bad that they are good. 

This week's episode features the 1996 movie called Bhai Amar Bhai starring Prosenjit, Chiranjeet, Abhishek and others. 

In this week's watchlist, we talk of the Netflix true crime mini-series Sophie: A Murder in West Cork and a Bengali show on Hoichoi called Dujone.

We also recommend the podcast Mythical Monsters available on Spotify

In this week's watchlist, we talk of 2 Netflix movies Haseen Dilruba and Fear Street Chapter 1 as well as the Apple TV comedy show Ted Lasso. 

We also recommend an audio show and podcast. 

We are back with Bitter Bongs after a long break. We hope to do to a weekly wrapup of movies and shows that we have watched in the last week. 

This week we talk about Netflix's Ray, Amazon Prime's Sherni. We also talk about Jhinuk Mala as part of the 90's movies this week. 

In this episode we talk about our top 20 TV shows and movies that we watched this year. This list includes both TV series and films across three languages - English, Hindi and Bengali 

In this first episode of Bitter Bongs, we discuss Srijit Mukherjee's latest show Feluda Pherot - Season 1