Where is Srijit Mukherji these days?

Where is Srijit Mukherji these days? On the sets of

Ek Je Chilo Raja

of course, yet not so much there. Those who have seen him from the close quarters came back with stories of how the director is lost on his mobile phone. He even okays shots while checking his phone and I don’t know if a new romance is blooming. Meanwhile, his double whammy did not end with Tonushree Chakraborty and Priyanka Sarkar bowing out of the Puja release. I hear he also changed his DoP twice. While Soumik Halder was first approached to do the film, he couldn’t give dates. Then,

Subhankar Bhar

was roped in but pushing back the film by 10 days cost him the cinematographer. Now, Gairik Sarkar is shooting the film. A line from Shakespeare that Srijit should understand seems apt here: ‘Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown’.