Shooting commences for Jisshu Sengupta, Prosenjit Chatterjee starrer 'Mahalaya'

'Gulab Gang'

director Soumik Sen is ready to bring back a wave of nostalgia with his next film based on Bengal's famous Durga Puja tradition –

'Mahalaya'

. The makers commenced shooting for this flick on Wednesday and took to social media to make the official announcement.


The plot of this movie is reportedly about the controversial change that Mahalaya went through in 1976 as Bengal’s matinee idol Uttam Kumar replaced legendary Birendra Krishna Bhadra.

As per reports, Jisshu Sengupta will portray Uttam Kumar while Subhamoy Chatterjee will play Pankaj Mullick and

Subhashish Mukherjee

to take on Birendra Krishna Bhadra's role. We have seen Jisshu playing Kumar's role previously as the sleuth character

Byomkesh Bakshi

in Anjan Dutt’s

‘Byomkesh O Chiriyakhana’

. ‘Mahalaya’ will also have popular actor Prosenjit Chatterjee as a producer, who is believed to be playing an important character in the upcoming Bengali drama.