Ringo makes first Hitchcockian film in Tollywood

Reinventing the Hitchcockian genre in Bengali films, director Ringo now weaves a murder mystery in 'Sada Kalo Aabchaa' starring Indo-British actor Samrat Chakroborty.
"I won't say we have transplanted Vertigo or Psycho in Bengali film milieu or re-adapted the classics. But as the name suggests my film has the interplay of light and shade with one plot building on another," Ringo told PTI here.
Ringo, who rates Psycho as one of the most intriguing Hitchcockian flicks, said, "I had always been attracted by his use of styles and thematic (in)consistencies, jarring themes and invoking symbols and motifs. The murders and suspense in his films, which heighten the drama, are not macabre and gory."

"We had sleuth stories, on crimes and suspense in Bengali but I had a feeling Hitchcockian flavour was not manifest in our Tollywood projects excepting Kuheli," he said.
'Sada kalo Abchha', another first as being partly shot on mobile and real life car chase and encounters in sylvan North Bengal and Hill settings, is built on a web of plots and grey is the predominant color like all Hitchcock creations, Ringo said.
"Like Hitchcockian works if you miss one strand of the story will miss the whole story," he said.

Set amidst the serpentine lanes of of conifers, with a hill view in background, the mysteries unfold in Sada Kalo with the stillness broken by a bird chirp as the female lead turns around and sees something unfolding before her, Ringo said about the plot.

On casting Samrat, Ringo said "He is an actor having turned up in international projects and is well groomed, westernised but still retains a neutral Bengali accent. He perfectly fits the bill as my writer turned crime buster in the 'Sada Kalo....' marked by past and present interplay.
Sayani, who had turned up as the woman protagonist as Rupa Ganguly's on-screen daughter in Na Hanyate by Ringo, is the female lead in Sada Kalo surviving scares like Hitchcockian women characters and helping Samrat unravel the web of complexities.