Rohit Roy and Tota’s film title changed to ‘Arokto’

Tota Roy Choudhury and

Bollywood

actor Rohit Roy is teaming up for a dark love story titled ‘

Arokto

’. This Bengali film also marks the directorial debut of

Arindam Basu

. Bangladeshi actress Orin will be seen as the female lead along with Mallika Banerjee and Debaprasad Haldar in pivotal roles. The film was initially titled as ‘

Atoshkaanch

’ but later it was changed to ‘Arokto’.

It’s a story of a successful crime thriller writer Pratapaditya Singha (Rohit Roy) and his wife Resham (Orin) who travel to the hills as the author plans to use the vacation to finish the climax of his new book. There is a cold wall of indifference between the couple which they also hope to heal in the mountains. But as fate has it Resham meets Rahil (Tota) in the hills. Rahil owns a small pub where he is also a part-time singer. Resham and Rahil gets involved in a relationship and it spirals out of control. The lives of trio now take unexpected twists hurtling towards a dark end. What happens next forms the crux of the film.

Produced by Trina Films, shooting for this film starts from mid-December in the North Bengal. While the music is being composed by Savvy, Dibyendu Mukherjee is working on the background scoreand Supratim Bhol is the DOP.