An NRI returns to Kolkata for Durga Puja with friends, reacting in real-time to the city's festive lights, traffic, and landmarks. They switch between Hindi, English, and Bengali while navigating taxis and Uber, mixing excitement about the puja season with observations about how the city has changed.
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बोला आगे चिकित्स वाला है नहीं One box for my soul.
Kolkata is all lit up for the pujas. I think that's ITC. That's the bypass.
Divine India.
That's the bypass, surely. Once in the clouds, we will see the halogen lamps. I'm 22. I have a children coming back to put that again.
कभी क्यों पेपर कॉलेंसी?
प्रतिज्वल, और इसे स्कॉल्ड वाटर। नो सिटी है सो मच वाटर। मोटर बॉडीज़, एक्चुअली। एंड से प्रोस। नो सिटी है सो मच वाटर बॉडीज़। Boss, it's supposed to go down and go up on its own.
Look at this light.
You can see the lights.
Light is going faster and faster and faster. Faster. Oh, now it touched the ground. Kolkata, Kolkata, Kolkata, Kolkata.
It's not looking like. Guys, I'm in Kolkata. You can see the sun on my face, right? And this is the sun which kind of killed us for so many years, and I'm dying to line for the sun.
जा बेना?
एक ही?
Oh!
बोला तो नहीं है नहीं। गाड़ी जा बेना, टैक्सी क्यों होएगा ते? So taxi जा बेना। Okay, but like guys, like have a look around. ओए तो ओए तो ऊपर। उबर कोई बोलो सामने सामने बोलो अरे ना ना ठीक है तो चोरों ना चोर। तो देखो लुक एट दिस बस। जाविन चले चले इट इस दिखाना पड़ता है ऐसे-ऐसे यू हैव टू इंडिकेट चले चलिए ये जाएंगे आएंगे दशरथपुर पार्क तो बोला क्यों हो जाएंगे आप बोला था जाएगा तो जाने के लिए छोड़ देता हम चला जाता जाने के लिए छोड़ देता मतलब कैसे जैसे आप बोलता है जाएगा आएगा तो टाइम लग जाएगा हमको हम आपको वहाँ छोड़ देता हम वो सवारी हाँ तो छोड़ देंगे कोई बात नहीं उसके बाद आपका जो मर्जी वहाँ क्या-क्या पर पापर बिलना पड़ता है। We are all excited, so everything is going on.
साधन एवं निश्चय भी नहीं देता है। साधन एवं निश्चय देगा, मगर मतलब लेस्टर में छोटे न रसिया मतलब डायना पड़ेगा, मतलब जस्टिफिकेशन होने पड़ेगा। आप एक काम कीजिए, साधन एवं निश्चय डायना लीजिए, विश्व के पास से बाया लीजिए। Wherever you go, however, how many years even when you come back to this, you're just—
it's really magical. It's really magical.
Guys, you seen the odings enough? Are you okay with the odings? See the traffic.
So the sixty seconds mark on that, okay, that. That red light. So fifty seconds now we have to wait for the red light to move. In my time, my times we never had red lights. So when red lights actually came, nobody thought it was anything. We follow them. So red lights, she go in our time and everybody anybody could pass and police, I thought the police and then we go to the airport and then we get off. Red light means come. मांगे क्यों है मेरी रेड लाइट मांगे but रेड लाइट्स हैं तो everybody कौन मांगे walk sign तक उन्होंने दो मांगे ना so I guess उधर वो चीज़ पूरी आवाज़ से स्थिति so everything is a matter of time I've seen the city improve a lot trying to catch up with the rest of the world but it has its own pace and it just doesn't bother you know on the This is very close. Came from Canada for this. This is something I cannot, I cannot recreate in Canada. I've tried to recreate everything, but I haven't been able to recreate this. So you're going to see this.
