Calcutta – Rickshaw Challenge https://www.rickshawchallenge.com Pure Adventure! Wed, 09 Oct 2013 11:53:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 https://rickshawchallenge.gamblingzion.com/uploads/2019/08/cropped-RC-FB-no-background-32x32.png Calcutta – Rickshaw Challenge https://www.rickshawchallenge.com 32 32 Bollywood Theater: India to Portland https://www.rickshawchallenge.com/2013/10/09/bollywood-theater-india-to-portland/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bollywood-theater-india-to-portland https://www.rickshawchallenge.com/2013/10/09/bollywood-theater-india-to-portland/#respond Wed, 09 Oct 2013 11:53:14 +0000 https://www.rickshawchallenge.com/?p=11285 Bollywood Theater
Before opening Bollywood Theater in Portland, OR, Chef Troy MaClarty ventured on a trip to India that included Kerala, Goa, Calcutta and Mumbai in order to experience the food, people and culture of India first hand.
Film by Jeremy Fenske

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A short film featuring the tea cup makers of Kumartuli in Calcutta, India.
Film by Nathan Harrison

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‘There are two types of people in the world: those who have been to India and those who haven’t.
After visiting Mumbai, Calcutta, Varanasi and most of this amazing sub-continent, travelling itself is an incredible experience, all countries are unique, but India, my friends, is the most awesome place on earth.’
Magic India, film by Marco Bagni

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Kolkata is the city of contradictions, at once both utterly romantic and terrible, this city defies explanation.
‘Kolkata Portraits’ by Aharon Rothschild

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Using hand shadows without digital effects, this video has been made to promote Calcutta as a destination. It weaves through the various sights and sounds of this historic city, all the time enthralling the viewer with the fantastic morphing of the hand.

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In 1982 Ram Chandra Biswas left is hometown of Calcutta, India and bicycled through 156 countries starting with only $1. Watch til the end to see his passport.

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