Director Animesh Roy said in 'O' Henry' the long dead author plays the muse of a young writer Megha who gets inspired by his work before taking up the pen.
Without giving away much, the director said that Megha's obsession would reach a level in which she would start to see her muse as a newspaper reporter who would arrive to interview her at her home after she received a literary award.
About his work, Roy quoted the tradition of Bengali cinema drawing references from the world of literary art.
Scriptwriter Sudip Chattopadhyay and actor Dibyendu, who plays the character of Megha's interviewer, said the film was a different take on a long dead writer dominating the mind of a young person.
"I discovered this fact about Megha as I come to interview her, being the only reporter to get one. While liberally using metaphors and imagery, we have also included songs in the multi-layered film for the sake of the narrative and leaving it to the audience to draw their own conclusion," Roy said.
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