Gautam Ghose's new venture to have world cast

PTI / Mar 29, 2006, 13:21 IST

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Celebrated film-maker Gautam Ghose plans to take up a new venture with Italian collaboration and an international cast.

Gautam Ghose's new venture to have world cast

KOLKATA: After giving finishing touches to 'Yatra' - a multi-layered film about a writer's fantasy - celebrated film-maker Gautam Ghose plans to take up a new venture with Italian collaboration and an international cast.
"I am now busy doing post-production work for 'Yatra', that stars Rekha and Nana Patekar which will be released in the first half of May.Work for my ��Tale of Lala�� - the proposed Italian venture - will begin afterwards," Ghose said.
The theme centres round a little boy whom an Italian sojourner meets in the course of his travel in India. The ��Tale of Lala' will be shot from the middle of this year, in different locations of India and Naples in Italy, Ghosh said. This will be the first Indo-Italian film project under the co-production treaty signed by the two countries last year.
On reports that internationally known actor of Pakistani origin Omar Sharif would star in this venture, Ghose said, ''I have not zeroed in on the casting. But the film will have internationally known actors - may be both from India and Hollywood.''

The collaborator of the venture, Italian film-maker 'Scapagnini' had earlier said during the India International Film festival' last November in Goa that he and Ghose had prepared a rough script of the film.
"I will take up the script for finishing touches once all the work related to 'Yatra' is completed," Ghosh said.
Besides other dramatis personae, including the Italian, a hunt is on for the role of the 11-year-old boy, Ghosh said.

Coming back to ��Yatra��, which revolves round a writer named Dashrath Joglekar (Nana) in Andhra Pradesh and a part-real, part-fictional 'Nauch' character Lajwanti (Rekha) hailing from 'Kothis' in Benaras and Lucknow, Ghosh said it resonates with traditional music - thumri and Birju Maharaj composition.
Ghosh, who has penned the dialogues of the film with Rashid Iqbal (with rich Urdu content), has also done the music for the film with the four songs by Asha Bhosle, Talat Aziz, Ustad Rashid recorded already.
Ghosh, who had done documentaries on legends like Bismilla Khan, Satyajit Ray and the Dalai Lama, has also recently completed a documentary on the clay-modellers of Kumartuli, Bengal's famed potter's colony.
"The documentary highlights the difficult working condition of the clay modellers and how they work against all odds to make such resplendent Durga idols during Bengal's biggest festival," Ghose said.

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