Kolkata-based filmmaker
Aneek Chaudhuri
has recently completed a film with Pawan Chopra. Directed by Aneek, the film is titled ‘The tale of a Santa and his Moth’ and stars
Pawan Chopra and
Usha Banerjee
as the only two actors in the film.
The film is based on an equation of a widower father who was once married to an Anglo-Indian lady and later discovered his parallel sexuality (homosexual). Pawan Chopra is playing the father while Usha Banerjee is playing her sick daughter.
Pawan Chopra is a well-known face in Bollywood and has earlier worked in films like ‘
Kalank
’, ‘Dil Dhadakne Do’, ‘
Shershah
’ and was recently acclaimed for his performances in ‘The Family Man’ and ‘Asur’. Meanwhile, Usha Banerjee has earlier worked in Aneek’s much-acclaimed feature film ‘
Jharokh
’ which has been traveling to international film festivals and will have its worldwide release soon.
Sharing more details about the film Aneek says, “The film came to me a few months back out of a casual discussion with Pawan ji and we are always on the same page; we knew it would work. Usha has portrayed a character which is phenomenal and mature. ‘The tale of a Santa and his moth’ is something which does not directly fall into my genre of films that I have made in the recent past. However, I wanted to mould myself and this is what I have got for my audiences.”
He further adds Pawan Chopra will be seen in a completely different avatar, “Pawan ji has not done anything like this before where he presents fluidic sexuality. He has done a warm job here. Usha performed very well considering that we had been rehearsing and discussing this for the past three months. Things shaped out well. She has played a character that holds well in the current scope of Cinema.”
The film has been shot entirely in Kolkata and the shoot got wrapped up a few days back.
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