As a director who’s fussy about scripts and tweaking the fine print over and over again, Shoojit Sircar says that the prolonged sessions over the film’s storyline helped his Bengali film ‘Open Tee Bioscope’, which is about a boy’s adolescence.
“‘Open Tee Bioscope’ is the tale of teenagers who grow up in the company of elders and siblings,’’ he says. “It is an honest film which director Anindyo Chattopadhyay and I thoroughly enjoyed as we went back to those days of laughter, insanity, heart-break (not in that order always) but under the protective shield of elders,’’ he adds.
Christening it as a ‘cross-over film’, Shoojit, who is planning to direct a film based on Mohun Bagan’s historic IFA Shield win against Britishers, says, “That era of football tournaments — during the Independence struggle — will take many of us down memory lane.”
About his association with Shantanu Moitra, he says, “The tuning matters. After Aparajita Tumi, Shantanu is the guest music director in this film and he has sung a melodious number.
Anindyo, Shantanu and I — we are a team together and the film is Anindyo’s baby with me as the baby-sitter.”
About the role of a local political satrap having references to the dominant ruling organisation during those days, Shoojit says, “To be realistic, we had to refer to the socio-political situation of Kolkata during that time. This could be my own directorial venture and yes, it will have vintage Bengaliness written all over it yet again.”