Since I made those remarks, I hope so too!!!!
To be honest, I haven't seen such depictions, although, continuing to be honest, I am not exactly an authority on Bollywood films. I am a little surprised.
It is true that Keshto Mukherjee spread the image of a drunken hiccuping lay-about; on the other hand, Utpal Dutt conveyed another image, of an irascible, usually autocratic tyrant, domestic and professional, with an eye for pretty women, or in other roles, a clear disapproval of the same pretty women (perhaps these are different facets of the same mental make-up). Again (men only) Kishore Kumar and Ashok Kumar were so different. Biswajit made so fleeting an appearance that he doesn't count. Uttam and Saumitra were always purely Bengali artistes, with little or not interaction with Bollywood.
Sadly, you are right. Only the musicians are left to represent us.
But the reasons are not entirely disheartening. The native Bengali film industry is going through a strange revival just now; in a word, modern Bengali films are no longer new wave and different from Bollywood. They are doing well because they 'do' Bollywood in Bengali, with Bengali artistes.
Not very actively. Those who are conscious of these things naturally keep up the celebrations, but as more and more young people grow up in an Americanised milieu, the numbers celebrating are shrinking every year. My family, being Dhaka based, was linked to these groups; my father was taken to school not by our own direct relatives but by a gyati, who was Dinesh Gupta's elder brother. After I'm gone, who'll remember? My daughter, being half-Bengali, speaks Bengali; my son-in-law, although born into a probashi Bangali family thankfully reads and writes and keeps up his Bengali. So my grandson has at least a reasonable hope of growing up with some smattering of Bengali. Since they live in strange places, it is too much to hope that he will be adept in it.
Times are changing. I can't expect them to replicate my milieu, having been educated in small towns - Jalpaiguri, Barrackpore - and in the Bengali medium until Class VIII. There was also the enormous peer pressure in Presidency to speak in Bengali at all times; you probably appreciate that if two Bengalis get together, there is no scope for any other language.
I think what I'm trying to say in my half-articulated way is that these are quintessentially Bengali facets of the freedom struggle, and neither the Congress outside Bengal nor these contemporary Sanghi swines do much to keep those memories alive; it doesn't suit their narrative (the Congress within Bengal was faithful to these icons, knowing very well that Nehru and Patel would not go down very well, Gandhi would, but not these).
There is far more resonance with south Indians; they remember about Bengal and Bengalis in the freedom movement. We are not remembered in the north for our role in the freedom struggle but for our intellect, training and integrity. And of course, the teaching and journalism professions are packed with Bengalis.
