Sreelekha and Shilajit to be pair up for a horror film

Director Ajitava Barat is all set for his debut feature film and the shoot of will be wrapped up by the third week April. The film, titled Bhoote Biswas

Koren

?, is a horror flick, an anthology of three different stories. While Sreelekha Mitra and Shilajit Majumder are playing two central characters,

Anindya Pulak Bandopadhyay

is also a part of the film.

Ajitava shared that Shilajit is playing the character of Proban Chatterjee, a director and Sreelekha will be seen as Rusha. Without divulging much, the director said, “Several types of films are being made in the Bengali film industry. Family drama, thrillers and hardcore commercial movies are taking centre stage. Despite that, I found a lacking in the number of horror movies. But if you see, there is no dearth of horror stories in Bengali literature. From Rabindranath Tagore to

Tarashankar Bondopadhyay

and

Sharadendu Bondopadhyay

— notable novelists have written several stories on this genre. So, I decided to debut with a horror,”

Ajitabha

added.

The shoot of the film has started and will go on till April 22. It’s being shot at majorly three locations – Kolkata, Bolepur and North Bengal. “I am really excited to finish the project and I am sure this will be hailed as an important film in the industry,” Ajitava added.