Kaberi Dutta ChatterjeeDirector, KAA Media · Narrative Architect | Director, KAA Media Inc.

New Market during Christmas

22 Dec 2017 · 5 min

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The video is a first‑person, on‑location vlog filmed in Kolkata’s New Market during the Christmas season of 2017. The narrator, speaking in a mix of English and Hindi, walks through the bustling market, pointing out festive decorations such as Santa hats, a large Santa figure, balloons, hairbands, and shoes. He engages in typical market bargaining, negotiating prices in Hindi, and interacts with friends and vendors. Throughout the walk the narrator emphasizes the multicultural, peaceful nature of the crowd – people of all religions, creeds, and colors shop together. The tone is lively, informal, and enthusiastic, highlighting both the commercial vibrancy and the social harmony of the market as an example for the world.

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This is Santa Claus. Everybody is wearing Santa Claus hats, as you can see. Show me, Dana. एक तो आस्था से जाओ। People are buying balloons. बोले क्या तो क्या है? एकदम बोले कि bargaining करना आपको। Bargaining करना है। Bargaining करना है। तो seventy है और एकदम चालीस है। एकदम चालीस है और नहीं तो seventy है। हाँ। ठीक है, thank you। बोले ना forty मेरा last है। नहीं नहीं मुझे नहीं चाहिए। कोई बात नहीं। नहीं thank you। Oops! You like it? I like it too. My friend is so impatient; she's gone all the way ahead. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, इधर आइए, इधर आइए, इधर आइए, इधर आइए, इधर आइए. मैडम, इधर है. This is new market. In the Christmas time. Look at these hairbands. Oh my God, people are going to actually wear these hairbands. Okay, everybody is buying irrespective of religion, creed, or color. And these shoes. Oh my God, the lighting is This is Christmas 2017 in Kolkata. There's this huge Santa Claus over there. There's my friend. Oh my God! I can't seem to soft spot my friend now. Now I'm all alone in this crowd. Hey, तो आराम से सारी बैग्स खोलो। वो था तू क्लिप देखा भी हमारे बॉल? ए जूता काटोगे? ए गुलाब काटोगे? Oh my God, he's not even listening to me. He is busy pointing gun at somebody. दादा, भैया ये जूता कितना करके? ये जूता two hundred. Two hundred? Okay. Yeah. वन डी आउट से वन डी पाँच जगह। हाँ, यही होता है जोड़ी बनती है। अरे ऐसा ऐसा ये। इधर देखो ना गाड़ी अच्छी है। या। वेबलाइज्ड फ्यूजिड। हाँ? पूछ का पूछ का पूछ रहा है। Where is this clip? You're taking me to. Oh my God! मुझे बिरादरा वीडियो उड़े अच्छा ना? New Market. That's this New Market. The front of New Market. A place for every religion. A Christmas time for all groups of people. So you can imagine the kind of crowd we have here. You can see they're sorted group. So there, this is Calcutta, a place where peacefully everybody lives peacefully, and it's definitely an example for the world to follow. You can see the kind of assorted people that live here, and this balloon.