Balighawr to start rolling in September

If all goes well, Arindam Sil’s Indo-Bangla project,

Balighawr

, will start rolling from September. The

Bangladesh

government has set up a joint preview committee to scrutinise collaborative ventures between India and Bangladesh, and directors are expected to submit their scripts for the committee to go through. The script of Balighawr, which had been lying with the committee for long, was finally passed on March 27. The team will soon be sent an acknowledgement letter.

Balighawr — which stars Nusrat Imrose Tisha and Arifin Shuvo from Bangladesh, apart from Parno Mittra, Rahul, Anirban Bhattacharya, Rudranil Ghosh, Abir Chatterjee and others from India — is the first Indo-Bangla project after a change of rules in the neighbouring country.

“Bangladesh Film Development Corporation has passed the script of Balighawr and we are now waiting for a written permission from the government. We are planning to start the shoot from September. Byomkesh was pre-scheduled for June, so we can start this film only after that. Besides, this film has an ensemble cast and the date of all actors will only match in September,” said Sil.