Ritwick Chakraborty in an Indo-Bangladesh film ‘Mayar Jonjal’

Ritwick Chakraborty is set to reunite with director Indranil Roychowdhury’s next, tentatively titled ‘

Mayar Jonjal

’ (‘Debris of Desire’). This film also brings fresh air amid the uncertain future of Indo-Bangladesh collaborations as it’s jointly bankrolled by India and Bangladesh.

Indranil has adapted two stories of Manik Banbandyopadhyay against the contemporary backdrop. Ritwick will play the lead of one of the stories opposite Bangladeshi actress

Aupee Karim

who is returning to silver screen after a long time. The second story sees Chandreyee Ghosh and Bangladeshi actor Sohel Rana in the lead. Paran Bandyopadhyay and Bratya Basu are also playing key roles in ‘Mayar Jonjal’. Shooting is currently in progress in and around Kolkata. Parts of the film will be shot in Dhaka as well.

Ritwick is playing an ATM security guard Chandu in the film who had to take this job after his factory was locked down. Chandu’s wife Soma also manages to find a respectable work in a housing comlex but soon she starts to spend night there. Chandu realizes if he doesn’t leave this ATM job Soma will be gone forever.

In the second story Chandreyee plays a prostitute Beauty who’s a victim of woman trafficking. Sohel plays an average young man Satya who has his own troubles in life but soon he falls for Beauty. What happens next forms the crux of the film.