“I turned to Vidya again and luckily she said ‘yes’ this time. However with the original cameraman leaving before the start of shooting in Jharkhand and the set of a building having suffered extensive damage in a storm, we shot it on a war footing,” Srijit recalled.
Does he see any difference between Kolkata and Mumbai in terms of appeal to the audience?
Srijit replies that while for the Kolkata audience the name of a director matters, in Mumbai it is more of a superstar-driven structure.
On his special rapport with Sanjay Leela Bhansali, he said, “I freak out on madness of people like Sanjay who can ask a Deepika Padukone to do a dancing sequence for 18 times.
He is similar to my mentor Rituparna Ghosh.
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(Sourced from agencies, feature image courtesy:oneindia.com)
