When Q laid his cards on the table

When Anurag Kashyap and Q are involved in a project, you can be sure of something special. That���������s precisely why one hopes for an interesting lineup for Q���������s adaptation of Tagore���������s Tasher Desh.
Now, the director has revealed that supermodel Tinu Verghese will be cast as Patralekha and Susheela Raman and Sam Mills are recording for the movie���������s soundtrack.
Ask Q about the final cast of his movie and he says, ���������While Rii will play Haratani, Tinu will play Patralekha. Kanti (from the Tin Can theatre group), who is now in London, will play Rajputra. Anubrata Basu and Joyraj Bhattacharya - both were part of ���������Gandu���������, will play Saudagarputra and Tasheder Raja respectively. Tillotama Shome has been finalized for the queen���������s part. Arijit Dutta (Dadul) is playing the king.���������
If the cast is exciting, those involved in the film���������s music are no less interesting. ���������After watching a trailer of ���������Gandu���������, Susheela and Sam got in touch with me. They were kicked about my work. While that was flattering, I decided to involve them in ���������TD���������. Asian Dub Foundation, the British electronica band, is also doing one number for the film.���������
Q���������s adaptation has 19 songs and Susheela was in town to record Patralekha���������s number - ���������Gopono kathati robena gopone���������. ���������Sam has played the guitar for Haratani���������s song. Anusheh Anadil from Bangladesh is singing all the numbers for Haratani. Neel Adhikari is the project producer, while his cousin, Miti Adhikari, is working on the post-production of the tracks,��������� the director says.
Shooting for this Bengali film will begin in Sri Lanka in the second week of October. The Kolkata leg of filming will start in November.