Bangla Rocks

Pablo,Neon (actually Noyon),Baaji and Benji are the young protagonists of the film who form a band and rehearse in a ramshackle garage owned by Bobby played by master bassist Lew Hilt. What brings them together is music and their domestic lives which run parallel to each other. Their story is told in flashback mode: Benji the guitarist has grown up and recalls that summer when everything changed. “I wanted to make a Pan-Indian Bengali film because there is an audience outside Kolkata who want to watch Bengali films. New faces,new urban stories are urging Bengali cinema to become more cosmopolitan,” says Dutt who also wrote lyrics for the songs of Madly Bengalee .

Primarily an urban folk lyricist,he found it difficult to write rock lyrics again but welcomed the change. “Music in Kolkata has evolved much more than cinema and this film was one way to connect with change,” says Dutt. His next film however,takes him away from the urban-youth terrain: Dutt has just completed shooting Byomkesh Bakshi ,a film on the legendary fictional detective. “I wanted to make a classic. This is a very ‘serious’ film,it is a period thriller and without any frills,” says Dutt.