'Singur' re-enacts Prince rescue mission from well

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Press Trust of India Kolkata
Last Updated : Feb 02 2014 | 7:25 PM IST
With echoes of the land movement in 'Singur' having receded over the years in Bengal, a celluloid venture now turns its focus on the sleepy hamlet.
As the first celluloid rerun of the globally televised 'Prince mission' in Haryana some years back, 'Singur, a Rescue Operation' is a children's film where commandos act before the camera to rescue a child from the well after hours of 'taut' drama.
The film recaptures the rescue saga of Prince, the six-year-old boy who was hauled up by commandos in 2006 from a 60-foot submersible well in Haryana in which he lay trapped for 50 hours.
Director Rajeev Gupta told PTI, "Here the place of occurance is in Singur. We had shot on the kutcha roads of of the Hooghly hamlet which still remains very rural and the villagers formed part of the cast when the rescue operations from the 'bore well' were being filmed.
"It is a virgin landscape in the interiors, in places like Bajemelia of Singur and we chose the spot as Singur is rural but not very far off," he said.
"But from the title, please don't allude the film with any land agitation story. If there are journalists in the film they do report the rescue saga and first flash the news world over," Rajeev said.
Popular Bengali actor Gargi Roycowdhury is in the role of a woman commando in 'Singur'.
"Singur, produced by Gogi Film House, will be released soon.
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First Published: Feb 02 2014 | 7:25 PM IST

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