Kolkata’s all-time favorite song Bela Bose, composed and sang by Anjan Dutta, rotates in the mouth of all bachelors. Well, nearly all youngsters and college students learn the tune by heart and express their feelings by embracing this song. The lyrics no doubts touches our heart and it is quite often heard in any college festival. But, in the backdrop of unemployment, how can someone approach his love to Bela? This question has been a topic of heated debates here and there among the people of Kolkata.

Perhaps, men are equally a victim of the societal stereotype. If you don’t get a job, you can’t marry. If you don’t take up the responsibility of your female counterpart, you are not manly enough to be in a relationship. If you cannot satisfy your girlfriend’s materialistic demands, you don’t love her. Parallel to this, if your boyfriend is not a well-established person, you will be forced to marry someone else. If your boyfriend doesn’t earn much,  you face constant humiliation. If you earn more than your boyfriend, you have got it by some hacks. If you try to stick by your love and plan outings for your boyfriend, you are buying feelings with cash. And, on and on. Societal stereotypes are never-ending…

Meanwhile, our state is lacking employment opportunities in every sphere. Educated men and women have to travel out of the station to fetch a job. Job seats in the government sectors are still vacant, yet no recruitment. Due to the pandemic, salaries are cut off.  Discrepancy everywhere! In such a scenario, somehow both you and your Bela have to suffer a lot. Somehow you both are tired of fighting with this deadly world, struggling to earn, struggling to eat, struggling to live. And, only faint hopes lingering in your mind…one day, you both shall establish yourselves and sing Bela Bose together, breaking from all prejudices.