Raima Sen, one of Moonmoon Sen’s contribution to the tired-world, gives us an interesting insight into a modern “Bengali” upbringing.
However, Raima identifies more with the spunky, modern Sheila of The Bong Connection. “We’ve had a very modern upbringing. We didn’t do pujas at home. We speak in English at home, not Bengali. Most of my friends have been Anglo-Indians.”
When Chota Don (played by Rajpal Yadav) says “Kisne kiya hain ungli. Kaun hain humare beech main Sourav Ganguly” (Who has betrayed us? Which among us is Sourav Ganguly) in “Partner” there was a moment when I thought, looking at the semantic association between Ganguly and “traitor”, that the staffers at a certain cricket-themed “info” website had collaborated in the script of David Dhawan’s latest flick.
Not that any help was needed because Dhawan is firmly in control in “Partner”. Reunited with long-lost muse Govinda, he belts out his best work in recent times—-a throwback to his salad days in the 90s but still quite a bit short of the sublime genius of “Haseena Maan Jayegi” or the genre-defining “Raja Babu”.
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