This, he said, would satisfy the film-hungry middle class young audience living in districts who want to watch medium budget, Independent Bengali films.
Kaushik, a known theatre personality and drama director besides being a film actor, told PTI "While taking our group Swapnasandhani's production to places like Berhampore, Barasat, Malda, Balurghat, Midnapore and elsewhere I have seen how the middle class audience in metro and mofussil are not much different in their exposure to contemporary times and tastes."
Advocating that the present government, which wants to promote film industry, has to do it's bit in setting up quality stand alone halls in district towns, Kaushik, one of the intellectuals having voiced his opinion on several contemporary issues during Left Front and Trinamool Congress rule said, "I don't have much contacts with our CM or the key ministers in this government".
"Hence my request will be through Bengali film ambassadors like Prosenjt Chatterjee to take up the issue with the higher-ups in the government and exploit the hunger for new genre of middle budget, Independent Bengali films among the young generation of Bengalees in districts who don't have the chance to flock to theatres in Kolkata and it's outskirts regularly."
"For any interesting small-middle budget film like Kalo Bhramar to be successful we need to expand our audience base from the city. One Prakton or Open Tee Bioscope can't effect the turnaround in box office fortunes of Bengali films in a bigger way. Hence the need for state backing to set up new theatres in districts," he said.