The Bengali OTT platforms might have become popular during the pandemic but nothing still matches the sheer excitement of watching movies on Kolkata’s big screens. The undiluted passion that erupts like a volcano when a hero makes an entry, the collective exuberance after a villain has bitten the dust in the hands of a hero, the quick attempt to wipe the tiny teardrops glistening at the corner of an eye after an emotional scene or the feet-tapping moments when the heroine dances to a peppy number — Kolkata’s big screens have seen it all. In this segment, BFA travels down the corridors of history to archive the past and present of Kolkata’s single screen theatres.