First Bengali film shot in Sunderban creeks

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Played on the vast landscape of world's largest mangrove forest, where even lead actor Rituparna Sengupta took a dip in waters teeming with crocs as the first Bengali film having such sequences, 'Taan' brings alive the tale of Sunderbans and its people on the screen.
"I won't claim that Taan to be another Titas Eklti Nodir Naam in milieu and content, but Taan also focuses on the lives of the true warriors fighting tigers, crocs and collecting honey," prominent ad-film maker turned feature director Mukul Roy Chowdhury said here.
While deriving from the story of 'Jalbesya' (sexworkers on boats) by Bangladeshi writer Al Mahmud, Taan has 50 per cent documentation elements with the director's real life experiences during various trips to the land of creeks weaved with the main story line.

Tollywood diva Rituparna, playing the lead role, said, "My character Sundari is the wronged woman in Taan. She is the face of the tortured, the unhappy ones forced to capitulate to the lust of sea pirates and local fishermen folk."
"As a woman I can feel the angst and the bitterness of her but I haven't met anyone like Sundari. Don't know if such characters really exist or not. But Taan will remain a watershed in my career," Rituparna said.
"None but Ritupartna could portray the complex role of a sex worker, she worked hard to master the dialect!, " Mukul said.

Having lyrics composed by artistes from both sides of border, and locations of Sunderban spanning both countries, Taan has a feel from across the other side, but Rahul is not sure about the film's release in Bangladesh as of now.
Taan, produced by Fab Four Films, will be released in next month.