ARINDAM TURNS DIRECTOR

Actor-turned-executive producer, Arindam Sil, is now set to don the director’s hat.
Arindam is going behind the camera with two TV series — Ebaro Aranye, which is a modern adaptation of Satyajit Ray’s Aranyer Din Ratri, and Choukat, which has student politics at the centre. The two series are for Rupashi Bangla’s Bondhu Tomay, presented by his production house Nothing Beyond Cinema.
“I have admired Ray for a very long time and Ebaro Aranye is a tribute to his Aranyer Din Ratri…. Besides, I feel the characters of Aranyer Din Ratri still exist. The premise will be the same but I will make it more contemporary to suit today’s milieu,” says Arindam, who will take his team to the Gorumara forests for the shoot.
Arindam has picked a handful of young TV actors for the cast — Tathagata, Bubble, Souvik, Gogol, Sahana, Nayna and Shrabanti — though he hasn’t decided who will play what. “There will be a few changes. For instance, the writer (played by Soumitra Chatterjee) will become a journalist. The memory game will be there too, but the way they play it would be different,” he adds.
Of the two, Choukat, starring Debleena Dutt and Tathagata Mukherjee, will be the first to hit the floors and also go on air. “Here, Debleena plays a college student and Tathagata is the leader of a students’ union,” says Arindam. Choukat will be aired from March 22 and Ebaro Aranye from May 3.

 
   
     
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