The standard fairy-tale motion gazes and predictable plot lines, has been superseded by more practical narratives that show how love endures despite hardships. Bangla ZEE5’s latest original film Nibba Nibbi comes loaded with adrenaline, a stolen hard drive, a heavily pregnant, gun-toting woman, her wild lover, and a serious appetite for trouble!
Directed by Tathagata Mukherjee, Nibba Nibbi promises pure, unfiltered “fun with guns.” at the absolute heart of this beautiful, chaotic descent into madness are two electrifying actors, Sauraseni Maitra and Rishav Basu. We have a chat with them about their characters, Paro and Deba, respectively.
How do you define a Nibba-Nibbi (new age, teen lovers) relationship?
Sauraseni: I feel they are people who are so far away from reality, devoid of negativity, yet they are so confident, so convinced about things they believe to be true. i think they live life in that bubble and feel very confident about the same.
Rishav: I think it’s passion and madness for each other which goes beyond everything, even the relationship. Passion and madness for the concept of love.
And what about Gen-Zs… as characters, as people?
Sauraseni: i just love them and their confidence. i think this passionate spirit, as Rishav so correctly pointed out, about whatever they are doing and somehow, even when people are looking down on them, they have such a huge reach, which could bring in such a big change. Somewhere, we also relate to them, or want to be like them; we just don’t have that confidence, or we have seen too much of life.
Rishav: I have worked in schools with a lot of younger people, and have worked with them since they were kids. So, I think the best part about them is the growing-up process that we didn’t go through.
We had a lot of responsibilities and were bound by societal norms. ‘What people will say’ was always on our minds. See, there are always pros and cons to everything, but I only see the pros. I think that’s the best part about them: they don’t require validation, which we did. We needed validation about everything…from our parents, our friends, our teachers, and society. Even now, when we are in a professional world, we seek validation from industry seniors, from the audience, on whether they liked our performances. Probably we do not show that off always, but it is somewhere there, hidden inside us. Technically, we do not need validation from anyone, and these guys believe in and follow that wholeheartedly. They are more bothered about the process and the goal, and I love them for that.
Sauraseni: And also what I feel is that they are not afraid to break out of this social conditioning that has been going on for generations.
If you look back at your young adulthood phase, what is the wildest thing you would have done for a crush or a then partner?
Sauraseni: Whatever wild things I have done, I would not do that anymore. It was not worth it. Trust me.
Rishav: I never had any of these kinds of things when I was a teenager. But yes, I too have done a lot of stupid things when I have had relationships in the past. When I am with my friends, we still joke about the same things, and honestly, now I do regret doing them.
If your on-screen characters Deba and Paro were on a dating app, what would be their green flags and red flags?
Sauraseni: Okay, this is very interesting. For Paro, the green flags would be someone who loves action, someone who loves to have fun and someone dependable. In short, whatever I see in Deba. And the red flag? Someone boring.
Rishav: I think Deba too wants the same thing as any other man across the universe. Men are the weakest sex on dating apps. So, for Deba, any pretty girl works just fine.
According to you, what is the underlying relationship takeaway from the film?
Rishav: We all have heard statements like, I can die for you. But how often have you heard things like I can kill for you? I think that’s the biggest takeaway: that you can love someone so much that you can kill others for them, to save them.
Sauraseni: The film also smashes all kinds of stereotypes. there might be different perspectives and disagreements in a relationship, but Deba and Paro are completely in alignment. and that is why, no matter what happens, this alignment and the love they have for each other make you just keep holding each other‘s hands forever.
Nibba Nibbi is now streaming on Bangla ZEE5.
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