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* LandmarkDeclarationGambit: The entire movie is spent trying to have Bow Barracks declared a historical landmark so the city of Kolkata will maintain it.
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* {{Cuckold}}: Rosa sleeps around on Melvin. Also, Tom’s wife Annie is sleeping with Bradley.
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** Roopa Ganguly, a Kolkata based actress famous for playing Draupadi in [[Series/{{Mahabharata}} BR Chopra’s Mahabharata]] shows up as the cheated on wife of the man Rosa is having an affair with.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Annie and Rosa. It is implied that Tom sleeps around on Annie too.
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* OneOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Peter is actually of ''American'' heritage, not British or Portuguese like the rest.
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* DomesticAbuser: Tom’s EstablishingCharacterMoment is him beating Annie with his belt.
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* DomesticAbuser: Tom’s DomesticAbuse: Tom's EstablishingCharacterMoment is him beating Annie with his belt.
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* [[spoiler: HomeSweetHome]] : It takes until the end, but the residents of Bow Barracks finally come to this realization.
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* [[spoiler: HomeSweetHome]] : HomeSweetHome: It takes until the end, but the residents of Bow Barracks finally come to this realization.
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* ActorAllusion: Lillette Dubey, who plays Emily Lobo is the daughter of a locomotive engineer in the Indian Railways - an occupation stereotypically associated with Anglo-Indian men. And her name also suggests European heritage. But she is actually Indian through and through - with no European ancestors.
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* TheCameo: Singer Usha Uthup shows up to belt out a Christmas song for the Bow Barracks fundraiser concert.
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* BreakHisHeartToSaveHim: Annie ends her affair with Bradley because Emily admonishes her, that Bradley is so infatuated with her, that he is neglecting everything else, including his guitar playing.
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* DespairEventHorizon: The murder of Manish the architect, who is trying to get Bow Barracks recognized as a historical landmark so the city will maintain it, becomes this for most residents.
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* GrassIsGreener: The community residing at Bow Barracks feels that life will be better for them in either England or any UsefulNotes/{{Commonwealth}} Dominions such as Australia.
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* GrassIsGreener: The community residing at Bow Barracks feels that life will be better for them in either England or any UsefulNotes/{{Commonwealth}} Dominions [[UsefulNotes/TheCommonwealth Dominions]] such as Australia.
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* [[spoiler: HomeSweetHome]] : It takes until the end, but the residents of Bow Barracks finally come to this realization.
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* GrassIsGreener: The community residing at Bow Barracks feels that life will be better for them in either England or any UsefulNotes/{{Commonwealth}} Dominions such as Australia.
* HatedHometown: Emily and Rosa really really hate Kolkata and implicitly, India too. They both just want to get out of there.
* HatedHometown: Emily and Rosa really really hate Kolkata and implicitly, India too. They both just want to get out of there.
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TheAlcoholic: Peter “the cheater” is the good fun loving variety. Tom is the abusive wife beating variety.
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ConMan: Peter “the cheater” is implied to be one.
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{{Cuckold}}: Rosa sleeps around on Melvin. Also, Tom’s wife Annie is sleeping with Bradley.
*GoodAdulteryBadAdultery:DomesticAbuser: Tom’s EstablishingCharacterMoment is him beating Annie with his belt.
* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: Annie cheating on Tom with Bradley is sympathetically portrayed due to Tom being a wife beating criminal. Rosa sleeping around on decent Melvin is more unsympathetic.
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UnrequitedLove: Sally pines for Bradley. He doesn’t reciprocate because he has feelings for Annie.
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Emily is a widowed mother, living with her son Kenny and pining to join her older son Kenny in London. Unfortunately, that older son seems to have forgotten completely about her, or cut her out of his life. Her younger son Bradley is a listless guitar player who can’t seem to hold down a steady job, and is having an affair with Annie, a battered wife.
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Emily is a widowed mother, living with her son Kenny Bradley and pining to join her older son Kenny in London. Unfortunately, that older son seems to have forgotten completely about her, or cut her out of his life. Her younger son Bradley is a listless guitar player who can’t seem to hold down a steady job, and is having an affair with Annie, a battered wife.
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''Bow Barracks Forever'' is an Indian English-language film produced and directed by Bengali filmmaker Anjan Dutt. Set in Kolkata, the movie chronicles the lives, struggles and eventual triumph of an Anglo-Indian community living in the titular Bow Barracks apartment complex. The movie chronicles the lives of the residents as they face the usual set of life’s tribulations, as well as pressure from a sleazy real estate developer who is trying to force them off property they’ve owned for decades.
Emily is a widowed mother, living with her son Kenny and pining to join her older son Kenny in London. Unfortunately, that older son seems to have forgotten completely about her, or cut her out of his life. Her younger son Bradley is a listless guitar player who can’t seem to hold down a steady job, and is having an affair with Annie, a battered wife.
Annie is a battered woman living with her husband Tom, an Armenian origin alcoholic wife beating thug who is involved in some kind of shady scheme. She finds solace in the arms of Bradley.
Melvin and Rosa are an older couple, with a teenage daughter Sally. Melvin is a hardworking teacher, but Rosa feels unappreciated and is cheating on him. Their daughter Sally pines after Bradley, but he isn’t reciprocating.
And finally, there is Peter “the cheater”, a well meaning small time hustler. Who might just end up being the man to save the day.
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!!Tropes found here are:
* TheAlcoholic:
* {{Cuckold}}:
* DomesticAbuser:
* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery:
* OneOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Peter is actually of ''American'' heritage, not British or Portuguese like the rest.
* UnrequitedLove:
* YourCheatingHeart:
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Emily is a widowed mother, living with her son Kenny and pining to join her older son Kenny in London. Unfortunately, that older son seems to have forgotten completely about her, or cut her out of his life. Her younger son Bradley is a listless guitar player who can’t seem to hold down a steady job, and is having an affair with Annie, a battered wife.
Annie is a battered woman living with her husband Tom, an Armenian origin alcoholic wife beating thug who is involved in some kind of shady scheme. She finds solace in the arms of Bradley.
Melvin and Rosa are an older couple, with a teenage daughter Sally. Melvin is a hardworking teacher, but Rosa feels unappreciated and is cheating on him. Their daughter Sally pines after Bradley, but he isn’t reciprocating.
And finally, there is Peter “the cheater”, a well meaning small time hustler. Who might just end up being the man to save the day.
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!!Tropes found here are:
* TheAlcoholic:
* {{Cuckold}}:
* DomesticAbuser:
* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery:
* OneOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Peter is actually of ''American'' heritage, not British or Portuguese like the rest.
* UnrequitedLove:
* YourCheatingHeart:
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