Sujoy Ghosh buys rights for Saradindu's 'Tungabhadrar Teere'

After his short film Ahalya went viral on the internet, film maker Sujoy Ghosh is suddenly the center of everyone's attention. He has been flooded with phone calls about his next project and whether it would be a full length feature film like Kahaani or whether it will be another experiment in filmmaking.

Ghosh who hails from the city, though now settled in Mumbai, confesses that Kolkata and things Bengali have always owned a large part of his psyche and that is why Kahaani was set in Kolkata andAhalya was a Bengali film. Again, not many know that Korbo Lorbo Jeetbo Re, the slogan of the Kolkata Knight Riders, was also coined by Ghosh.

For some time Ghosh has been silent about his next project after Kahaani, though curiosity was mounting and then Ahalya was released on You Tube. But it is his quest to find his Bengali moorings that has once again brought Ghosh to Kolkata; this time to buy the film rights of Tungabhadrar Teere - the landmark historical novel by Saradindu Bandyppadhyay.

"Tungabhadra fascinates me. It's setting is so panoramic, the thoughts and feelings involved are so deep and the characters so larger than life that it simply transports me to another world. It would be an immense task to bring this immortal story to life. I have bought the film rights of the novel and hope to film it in Hindi," Ghosh said. He was here over the weekend, when he also attended the 60th anniversary celebration of Pather Panchali among other things and left for Mumbai on Monday evening.