Ritabhari’s biggest challenge was to play a priest!

Ritabhari Chakraborty who plays Shabari in Aritra Mukherjee’s directorial debut ‘

Brahma Janen Gopon Kommoti

’ which tries to break various taboos imposed on

women

participating in certain rituals and taking up certain tasks says her biggest challenge was to slip into the skin of a female priest. “I am doing big talk here, and then if I cannot really project myself as a priest in the film, then all the talk will be wasted," she added. "I had to memorize the Sanskrit mantras, learn the steps of the rituals, and understand their meanings and interpret them to the couples I married off in the film to be accepted by the audience.”

The talented actress is pretty much confident now that she can also perform the wedding rituals in real life as well, but insists more women should come into the field, just like Nandini Bhowmick, a real-life woman priest, whom she got acquainted with.

Shabari, Ritabhari’s character in the film, is a woman priest, a professor in Sanskrit college, and a homemaker with the ability to multitask. ‘Brahma Janen Gopon Kommoti’ is a dramatic comedy that makes one think about the outdated rites and rituals and questions the gender imbalance in society.

Beside Ritabhari,

Soham Majumder

will be seen opposite her in the social drama which releases on March 6.