Anasua Majumdar plays Soumitra Chatterjee’s wife in Debotaar Grash

The shoot of Soumitra Chatterjee and Naseeruddin Shah-starrer

Debotaar Grash

is on in full swing. Among the known faces, Amrita Chattopadhyay and Subhrajit Dutta are also a part of the cast. And now, it has emerged that

Anasua Majumdar

too has a key role in the film.
Debotaar Grash, directed by Saibal Mitra, is an adaptation of the play, Inherit the Wind, by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E Lee.The director said he had been working on the script for around a year and a half and it also reflects his thoughts on communalism, intolerance and the religious chaos in the society. The story is set in Hillolganj, a township, where majority of the inhabitants belong to the Adivasi community and are Christians by religion. There, Kunal Joseph, a science professor, denies teaching The Genesis of the

Bible

before science. It was an unwritten rule of the college to teach The Genesis before Darwin's Theory of Evolution, which Kunal refused by reasoning that Bible was beyond his jurisdiction. This act draws ire from the management and Kunal gets suspended. Communal tension starts growing in the area as Kunal is a Hindu and is put behind bars for offending the Christians. Once media starts highlighting Kunal’s misery, the nation’s attention shifts to Hillolganj. Kunal’s trial begins in the Court of Hillolganj and two eminent lawyers — Reverend Basant Kumar Chatterjee and Anthon D’Souza — appear in court to contest in favour and against him. While Soumitra Chatterjee plays Basant Kumar, Naseeruddin Shah will be seen as Anthon. Anasua plays Soumitra Chatterjee’s wife in Debotaar Grash. “This is not the first time that I played his wife. We have been part of films like Kaal Ratri, Pashondo Pandit and Bhalo Theko. It’s always fantastic working with him,” said the actress, who began shooting on May 9.