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Bipasha works through holiday for Bengali film debut
21/ 1/2008
Bipasha Basu has gave up her annual holiday to complete shooting for her Bengali film debut.
The Bengali actress is currently working on 'Sab Choritra Kalponik' which is being directed by the award winning Rituparno Ghosh and also stars Prosenjeet.
Said Ghosh: "Bipasha has sacrificed her annual holiday to accommodate this film. I want to make a film that does her proud. I genuinely believe that we haven't seen even the tip of her talent.
"The Bengali project with Bipasha happened because I had the script ready for a long time and I wanted to work with Bipasha. She was keen and so was I.
"The character requires her to play a Bengali NRI returning to her roots in Kolkata. So her accented Bengali will do fine. In fact, a lot of the film's space is taken up by the debate between English and Bengali," said Ghosh.
The most interesting aspect of the project is the fusion of magic realism with marital intimacy. "In the sense, this movie will be in the same genre as Doshor where Prosenjeet and Konkona Sen played an estranged couple," he added.
Ghosh told Bipasha that she was actually his discovery.
"Well, in a way. You see I was the judge in her first beauty contest in Kolkata, which was organised by Aparna Sen's magazine. I chose her as the autumn beauty. So I guess, I should get some credit for where she is today," the director said.
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