'Ichhe' directors in city school for real shoot

For the first time, two elite city schools have collaborated with the makers of a Bengali film on the perils of school admission system.
Director duo Shiboprosad Mukhopadhyay-Nandita Roy told PTI, "For Ramdhanu we had shot in the premises of two prominent schools in the city thus merging reel time with real time. This has been for the first time there was such a tie-up between two institutions and a film unit."
"The students milling around, the buzz in the corridors and teachers were not recreated. They belonged to the institutions who allowed us to shoot the scenes inside the compound. And this we did without affecting a single class," the Cannes-film mart honour winner for 'Alik Sukh' last year said.

Shiboprosad, who affirms a sequel of Ichhe is in the offing, says he felt proud to be part of the movement in Tollygunje by a clutch of film makers - from Srijit (Mukherjee) to Kaushik Ganguly who have collectively succeeded to wean back the discerning Bengali audience and widened the niche segment.
"In fact me, Mainak (Bhowmik) and Srijit can be credited to give a new perspective to mainstream Bengali cinema, a shift from the parallel genre," actor-director Parambrata Chatterjee had told this correspondent in a different context earlier.
Coming back to Ramdhanu, Shiboprosad said, "The current crop of producers in Tollygunje industry are also contributing in the growth of meaningful cinema. If we are not backed by producers who have the vision, the industry won't have gone this far."

Muktodhara has been produced by Atanu Roy Chowdhury, who had earlier chipped in for the past two films of the prolific director-duo.