Begum Jaan director Srijit Mukherji’s next to be an adventure film, an Indo-Bangla joint production

Bengali film production house Shree Venkatesh Films Entertainment and Bangladeshi producer Jazz Multimedia joined hands to produce the Bengali film, which will start production next month.

“We will shoot in certain locations in Switzerland apart from India,” the director, who helmed the first Kakababu film “Mishawr Rawhoshyo” in 2013, said.

“We originally thought to make it the first 3D film from Bengal but there are not enough 3D screens in West Bengal. The film will now be shot in 2D format,” Srijit said
Also starring actor Jisshu Sengupta, Yeti Obhijaan will be released in December 2017.

Director Srijit Mukherjee with actor Vidya Balan at one of the promotional events.

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Srijit recently made his debut in Hindi with Vidya Balan-starrer Begum Jaan. Talking about the film, he had said in an interview, “The subject is very hard-hitting. Partition as an event demands that kind of treatment. While reading stories of partition and its impact on human lives by Saadat Hasan Manto and Ismat Chughtai, I used to get angry and hurt. I wanted to show that in-your-face anger through Begum Jaan in these films.”

Begum Jaan was a Hindi remake of Bengali film Rajkahini starring Rituparno Sengupta.

(Agency inputs)