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Back to black and white
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Rituparna Ghosh is ready with his "Dosar - The Companion", releasing this Friday
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A NEW ANGLE A scene from "Dosar - The Companion"
Colour movies ended the age of black and white films a long time ago. But director Rituparna Ghosh, in his latest Bengali film Dosar - The Companion, is geared up to revive the magic of black and white. The story revolves around a couple: Kaushik, played by renowned Bengali actor Prosenjit Chatterjee, and Kaveri, performed by Konkona Sen Sharma of Page 3 and Mr. And Mrs. Iyer fame. It focuses on how Kaveri's world changes when she comes to know of her husband's infidelity and how Kaushik experiences the guilt for his deeds. Management guru Arindam Choudhuri has produced the movie.
It's stylish
Talking about the project, Ghosh says, "When colour cinema happened it sent the black and white era into oblivion. To make a statement that black and white is not gone and over, I have made this film without colour. Filmmakers of our generation have been brought up on black and white cinema and it had a great impact on us. It feels very stylish to make a film in black and white." But he hastens to add, "There is no deliberate attempt to create nostalgia as it is a story of contemporary society." Working in this film has been quite an experience for the lead actor Prosenjit too. Recalls this able son of yesteryear actor Biswajit, "In the film I play the victim of an accident. I am bedridden in it. So I couldn't move my body too much. I had to be convincing in my role through facial expressions and gestures." Talking more about his acting career, Prosenjit says he has no plans to return to Bollywood as such. "For now I am not doing any Hindi movie and I am not sure whether I will do Hindi movies at all. I can think about doing a serious Hindi film but not a mainstream one for sure," says the actor.On making films only in Bengali, Ghosh says, "Making films in Hindi is not the only way to communicate with the masses. I see no harm making a movie in Bengali, which is a rich language. Bengali is spoken more than Hindi. When you go abroad Bengali, Hindi or Tamil don't matter and after all, Hindi is also a regional language. It is basically the storytelling that matters."
Dosar is scheduled to be released in Delhi this Friday.
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