Prateek Prajosh’s ‘Chilli Chicken’, now on Prime Video, is a solid drama about Northeasterners in Bengaluru

The impressive thing is that a number of messages about assimilation and discrimination are put across without making it seem like a Message Movie.

There are hardly any films that talk about people from the Northeast. Nicholas Kharkongor’s 2019 dramedy Axone was one. It centred on a group of migrants from Northeast India in Delhi, and their efforts to make a local (i.e. Northeastern) dish whose strong smell was offensive to neighbours. Without being preachy, and with a dash of comedy, the story spoke about how we treat minorities, especially when they are migrants. Prateek Prajosh’s Chilli Chicken is a similar narrative, but set in Bengaluru. A bit of text at the opening tells us that the city is home to India’s second-largest migrant community, accounting for 51% of the city’s population. Among these, approximately 700,000 individuals are from the Northeastern states of India. We focus on four individuals: Khaba, Ajoy, Jimpa, and Jason, played by Bijou Thaangjam, Victor Thoudam, Jimpa Sangpo Bhutia, and Tomthin Thokchom. 

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