Cheenapara - The Breakfast Market Song (Music Video)

THEME
Food, communities and Kolkata, the three main elements in the song, are interwoven together to form the core theme of Cheenapara – The Breakfast Market Song. It highlights how food at Tiretti Bazaar morning Chinese breakfast market brings communities, locals and tourists together, irrespective of their backgrounds. The homemade Chinese snacks available at Tiretti Bazaar’s morning market, a legacy found only in the city of Kolkata, is what makes up the unique multicultural aspect of our city.

BACKGROUND
The song urges people to come to Tiretti Bazaar for the food and the unique experience. This is a homegrown effort by the Indian Chinese community, where for the first time a song about its neighbourhood street is written, composed, sung and shot by people from the community with locals and The Community Art Project (TCAP) team.
Through the song, we want to highlight the Indian Chinese community, the Kolkata Chinese Breakfast Market and TCAP Project that aims to upgrade Tiretti Bazaar itself through creative placemaking and community involvement.

STORY (Fictional)
The song opens with a scene where The Community Art Project (TCAP) team is having a discussion regarding a project. One of the members suddenly comes across a music video while browsing the web. Hooked, he gets all his colleagues to watch this video. The video shows Kolkata’s oldest Chinese Breakfast Market and the various delectable food items available there.
The TCAP team is enticed by the mouth-watering food items showcased in the video. They also see how various communities, locals and tourists come early morning just to taste the homemade snacks. The public place, thus, becomes a venue of celebration with people not only coming for the food, but to meet each other, spending time, bonding, clicking photos, and of course having mouth-watering food!