It seemed like a bizarre piece of news, but when director Samir Banerjee found out that consumption of human embryos was actually seen as a delicacy in some parts of the world, he decided to make a film on it. The debutant director came up with a script that explored the mechanics of this repulsive supply chain and whether India too was part of the trade.
Shooting for the film, titled
Export Mithye Kintu Sotti, starring Subhashish Mukherjee in the lead is over and the film should release in a couple of months.
Says Samir, ���������I was shocked when I came across this information. Online, I found pictures of people having the dish in China and Japan. In the film, I have also used some of these clips as montage shots.��������� Apart from Subhashish, the film also stars Pooja Banerjee,
Arun Banerjee, Swagata Mukherjee, Rishi Mukherjee, Pulokita Ghosh and Amlan Majumdar, among others.
Subhashish is excited. ���������The storyline is fictional. The film shows how a poor man is exploited and made to bring a pregnant woman to a clinic. He has no clue she has been brought there to ���������donate��������� her embryo. But the girl dies and what happens next forms the crux of the film,��������� Subhashish says.
Can the gory subject lead to trouble with the censors? ���������I plan to cross the bridge only when I come to it. I am also aiming to take this movie to the international market. Today, people are talking about sperm donation after
Vicky Donorbecame a hit. It���������s time the audience also got to know that such bizarre things happen in the name of ���������donation���������,��������� the director says.