Balaram Mullick & Radharaman Mullick since 1885
New Alipore, Behala, Santoshpur, Tollygunge, Thakurpukur
New Alipore, Behala, Santoshpur, Tollygunge, Thakurpukur
It was Ganesh Chandra Mullick who came over from Konnagar in Hooghly district to then Calcutta in around 1880 at his age of twenty. Having discovered a knack for sweet making very early in life, he came over to capital city of Bengal to try out his fortune. He dreamt of a sweet shop of his own. He opened a sweet shop in a hutment in Bhowanipore in 1885. North Calcutta then had many sweet shops. He visualized that fast growing South Calcutta would support a sweet shop where there was a scarcity of good sweet shop and there would be less competition. Bhawanipore was such an area in those days, just developing and expanding and was full of trees and jungles waiting to be cleared for expansion of Calcutta City. He was supported by his wife Lilavati Mullick in making sweets by hand. This shop was known as Ganesh's sweet shop. Today also, many old people know this shop as Ganesher Mistir Dokan.
Ganesh Chandra Mullick made a strategy. He started reaching fresh sweets at the residence of Sir Asutosh Mukherjee, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, CR Das like honourable persons. In course of time, the shop became popular for traditional Bengali sweets not only in Bhawanipore but also in entire South Kolkata.
Ganesh Chandra Mullick had a son Radharaman who held the mantle after demise of his father. While he ran the shop, joined his cousin Balaram. Radharman was very generous. They later changed the name of the shop as Balaram Mullick & Radharaman Mullick. With this name, the shop became famous and remains in the mind of people of all age.
During the days of 1965-66, when there was ban on Chhana(chese cottage) by the government, Sefalika Mullick, wife of Radharaman used to manually grind cashew to prepare sweets as ingredient in place of Channa. Balaram then died leaving behind his lone daughter who also died of cancer.
Radharmanan had two sons Pradip and Gautam. After demise of Radharaman, these two sons took the business to a different horizon with modernization and opening of five other stores those are running reputation. Meanwhile, Gautam opened another branch of Balaram Mullick and Radharaman Mullick in New Alipore, Behala, Santoshpur, Tollygunge & Thakurpukur which is looked after by himself and his able wife Lopamudra. Guatam has a son Rishav and a daughter Rishita. Rishav who has graduated in Hotel Management from Kasem Bumdit University, Bangkok. Rishav Mullick is also into the business full time trying to bring modern touch keeping the traditional touch intact also a proud member of Bengal Business Council (BBC). His daughter Rishita has also joined the company to take the company to a new hight.
This dynasty has been reigning the sweet world for about one and half century.
