Chalo Let's Go

This is a story of 4 friends

Asim – A medical graduate who decides not to pursue medicine, a confident and practical lad who will pursue anything that seems best and a born leader. He starts a tourism business with his three friends but ends up as an English teacher in a North Bengal orphanage.

Hari – A sensitive soul, singer, weak towards ladies but his chief problem behind his earlier break ups with five different girls seems to stem from his innocence and his difficulty in English speaking. He, after his venture with his friends in the tourism business, finds his soulmate and leads an unblemished commonplace life thereafter.

Sekhar – A hot headed youth who is not on good terms with his father but a good friend. He ends up as a celebrity ‘Jeebon Mukhi’ singer.

Sanjay – The intellectual and a good friend but when there is a girl involved, somewhat selfish. He is the narrator to this story and his future promises of a budding scriptwriter.

These four starts a band but fails miserably on their 1^st show. Then Asim decides to start a tourism business and convinces his friends on the project under the name ‘Gharoa’ (Homely). He raises the fund, and manages some clients for touring North Bengal.

Right from the beginning everything goes wrong. It starts with some of the tourists getting fussy when they don’t get the chosen window seats as was promised to them. Hari was given the responsibility to book the hotels in advance, but he had mistakes in all of the bookings and most of the clients get furious when they find they have to share rooms with others. To top it off, Hari meets a girl in distress and presses his friends to accommodate her in the party that puts added pressure to the finances. Unfortunately, news arrives of Shekhar’s dad’s death and he leaves making the team a bit crippled. But this news also brings the surprise turn when realizing their mental conditions on their friend’s father's death, the tourists now becomes softer and offer helps and advices to them. Thus a family type atmosphere prevails and now everybody interacts and in the process the audience enjoys the get-to-gether.

Speaking of the tourists we have Rudrababu, a terribly fussy as well as a responsible young man who fills the gap of Shekhar and helps Asim in the management. In the end we find Rudra joining ‘Gharoa’ as the most responsible member.

Next is Professor Dhurjati with a chemistry background who is not satisfied in any situation. All through the journey, we find him engrossed in a book with a cover that he claims to be a mystery story, but its actual contents reveals his distorted mental condition.

Again we have the Bengali Doctor from London, who is critical about Bengali’s poor organizational skills, their pitiable marketing abilities, but never offers his help to a dying local at the dark hours of the night.

His wife Tulu is also an important character who is apparently psychic but in her heart craves for a better partner.

Next is a Bengali couple consisting of a hen pecked husband and a devoted wife whose love for each other is eclipsed by the stressed family life.

There is also the lady mystery writer, who due to her attitude, is nicknamed Ms. Gambhir (Ms. Serious), but is an acute observer of human nature.

There is also the confirmed womanizer who describes his work as ‘Madam Crackerology’ and whose current companion is a girl of half of his age.

The last is the distressed Riya, who is ditched by her boyfriend and tries to find solace in the company of Hari.

Thus the story is about all the strata that comprises part of the middle class Bengalees. It portrays both sides of the coin nicely. Thus the story depicts how mutual respects are established and how it is destroyed. It speaks about growing trust between complete strangers and parallely describes mounting distrust among persons. The story is also about building relations and breaking them. But never for once the audience will feel any malice and the director has left it to the spectators to decide between the sin and the clean.

The story is studded with funny sequences blended with some scenes with a serious note and when considered to be a movie viewed within hours of watching ‘Sarkar Raj’, it is really a great relief from the modern day’s serious and complicated lifestyle.

Anjan Dutta once again chants the optimistic Bengali attitude and this is a nice and important contribution to the current Bengali movies. Saswata and Rudraneel deserves special mention as their acting, mainly the later’s are impeccable.