Aditya Vikram Sengupta in shock

It was surreal,” recalled Aditya Vikram Sengupta, when someone informed that

Lolita Chatterjee

had suffered a stroke at her home and was not responding. In Mumbai for work, the director even made a call but it was already too late. The 81-year-old actress had already slipped into deep coma. Elaborating on the shocking turn of events, Sengupta said, “The film is about an old lady who is trapped in a world of

nostalgia

, when the outer world has no impact on her. It was a similar situation for her.” Sengupta had earlier spoken about the impressive act that the late actress churned out for his film,

Jonaki

. Only last year, she was admitted to a hospital for sodium-potassium imbalance and Sengupta decided to put his shooting schedule on hold. “Her health is my prime concern. Everything else can wait,” Sengupta had told us back then.