Anurag loves Bengali cuisine: Ritabhari

Satarupa Sanyal’s Fool for Love starring Ritabhari Chakraborty and Anurag Kashyap in the lead is a tribute to Pulitzer Award- winning playwright, Sam Shepard, who passed away in July 2017. The film was screened yesterday at a city hotel in presence of the cast. The title of Satarupa’s film is same as Shepard’s play, Fool for Love, but her story is completely different, though the structure is inspired from the screenplay of the same.It narrates the story of an Anglo Indian couple Allan and Beatrice(Bittu). Bittu, who lives in one of the Christian dominant areas of Mumbai, is visited by her husband one night after almost two years of disappearance. Bittu has carried the baggage of emotions and spent days with emptiness and void without him. She feels she should finally let go of all that. Allan, on the other hand, just wants to be with his wife. What follows is a night of passion, anger, romance, emotions and brawls of this couple, whose fate cannot be decided by themselves. Their love story is bleak, poetic and surreal yet real just like Shepard’s plays.
“Anurag loves Bengali cuisine. Yesterday, when he was in Kolkata, he had Bengali food for lunch and dinner. From cholar dal, luchi to mutton and prawns — he enjoyed scrumptious dishes. In fact, he skipped breakfast to have Bengali food for lunch and dinner. All his school friends came to meet him at night and we had a gala time,” said Ritabhari, adding, “Anurag loved the way Mir conducted the question and answer session post the film’s screening.”