24/09/2026
You’ve been asking for it. We’re finally doing it again. ❤️
Our most requested film heritage walk in Mumbai is back; and, as always, Basu Da’s Bombay happens only a few times a year.
This year marks 50 years of Chhoti Si Baat and 50 years of Chitchor. Half a century later, both films still feel quietly radical.
At a time when Hindi cinema was dominated by anger, swagger, and spectacle, Basu Chatterjee chose something else. Hesitation. Awkwardness. Small victories. Everyday love. And a Bombay that felt lived in rather than performed.
Across films like Rajnigandha, Chhoti Si Baat, Piya Ka Ghar, Baton Baton Mein, and Chitchor, Basu Da captured a middle-class, migrant world negotiating space, time, and emotion. His cinema was shaped by bus stops and local trains, shared homes and small towns, office routines and long walks.
Love unfolded slowly. Conflicts emerged from lack of space, missed timings, and quiet self-doubt. Romance itself became a way of seeing the city.
Since 2023, Basu Da’s Bombay has become one of our most loved film heritage walks, returning again and again to this gentler cinematic city.
We’ll walk through Marine Drive, Fort, Kala Ghoda and the Jehangir Art Gallery, revisiting places like Samovar Café and Eros Cinema, and streets that once framed the everyday lives of Basu Da’s characters.
Come walk through a Bombay of buses, cafés, offices, local trains, awkward encounters and unlikely romances.
🗓 Sunday, 27 September 2026
⏰ 8:00 AM
📍 Opposite Pizza By the Bay, Marine Drive
Registration link in bio.
