By the way, Bow Barracks Forever isn’t as bad a film as the critics make it out to be. One of them accused Victor Banerjee of ‘hamming’. This could be because the flavour of the English spoken by the Anglo-Indians from Kolkotta sounds more like that of the ‘macca paos’ from Mumbai, who’s every second word is ‘bloody’, ‘what men’ and ‘you bugger’. And surnames like D’Costa and Lobo — aren’t they more ’Mangy’ than Anglo-Indian?
However, the good thing about the film is that the storytelling has a specific context. This I think is a positive trend, as opposed to featuring character’s whose backgrounds, stories and character sketches seem rather obscure.
