Kolkata, April 01: Suman Maitra, the ‘Dashami’ fame director
coming up with his next film “The Best Seller”. This time Suman doesn’t dive
for star cast while last time in ‘Dashami’, he directed Indraneil Sengupta and
Koel Mallick. After the critical appreciation of ‘Dashami’, Suman now wants to
tell the story behind the colourful city; the black back-drop of Kolkata will
be portrayed in the film. A trivia is that, the film tentatively titled as “City
Of Joy” in the initial stage but then the title has been changed during the
making of the film because “The Best Seller” seems more appropriate from the
script-view. Suman admits, “I actually
tried to make the film in Hindi because the characters and place I have chosen
this time is non-Bengali centric. The slangs they used also are in Hindi and if
I use it in Bengali, it may become irrelevant.” He also said that, “The same thing comes in my
mind that, if I go for bigger stars in my film then it will hamper the
relevancy of the script. But I also needed some good actors, so I have chosen
all the theatre actors; they all are awesome actor honestly. They made me feel
that they are the perfect casting for my project.” Producer Saibal Ganguly said
that, “I have a long term faith in Suman and I am eager already to produce his
next too. Suman is a director of that kind who has a strong voice that what he wants
and can do the miracle with non-famous actors too. “
The story is about two sisters Anu (Wrishita Mukherjee) and
Ayesha (Malobika Banerjee); who are the part of the infamous red-light area of
the city and story revolves with them entirely. Their struggle, their endeavor
all became the part of the movie and it will re-open that dark sides of the
city which we are tried to avoid always. The sorrowful moment of the city of
joy is being written by Suman in celluloid. Not only the red-light area life
but Suman also drags the Child-Narcotics in a very straight cut manner. He
actually used the street child for the real life shoot and that makes the film
a larger than life perspective.
The music of the film have been composed by Rana Sarkar and
the songs penned by Amitaditya Sanyal. Film also stars Saumen Bhaumik,
Tathagata Mukherjee too.
