Sushmita Sen has a perfect Bengali diction: Srijit Mukherjee

“Sushmita has a perfect Bengali diction, perhaps better than many other Bengalis here. We bonded well and she could guess what I was looking for as a director,” Srijit said.

“Nirbaak” (speech-less) has four stories stringed together by Sen’s character which bears no name.

“In the script the woman can’t be easily defined, she is beyond that. You will understand what I am talking about once you see the film. In the film Sushmita is referred as ‘The Girl’ and ‘The Woman’ variously,” the director said.

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Srijit, who made his directorial debut with “Autograph” which deals with the angst of a young filmmaker, said the inspiration to make the film came during a visit to a museum in Europe, where he saw a Salvador Dali surrealistic painting where a tree assumed the shape of a human.

“I had thought after seeing the painting what would happen if that very tree would be overpowered by human passions and react in the same way – by loving, showing anger, and emotions!” he said.

“Nirbaak” will release on Friday (May 1).