"I won't say we have transplanted Vertigo or Psycho in Bengali film milieu or re-adapted the classics. But as the name suggests my film has the interplay of light and shade with one plot building on another," Ringo told PTI here.
Ringo, who rates Psycho as one of the most intriguing Hitchcockian flicks, said, "I had always been attracted by his use of styles and thematic (in)consistencies, jarring themes and invoking symbols and motifs. The murders and suspense in his films, which heighten the drama, are not macabre and gory."
'Sada kalo Abchha', another first as being partly shot on mobile and real life car chase and encounters in sylvan North Bengal and Hill settings, is built on a web of plots and grey is the predominant color like all Hitchcock creations, Ringo said.
"Like Hitchcockian works if you miss one strand of the story will miss the whole story," he said.
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Set amidst the serpentine lanes of of conifers, with a hill view in background, the mysteries unfold in Sada Kalo with the stillness broken by a bird chirp as the female lead turns around and sees something unfolding before her, Ringo said about the plot.
Sayani, who had turned up as the woman protagonist as Rupa Ganguly's on-screen daughter in Na Hanyate by Ringo, is the female lead in Sada Kalo surviving scares like Hitchcockian women characters and helping Samrat unravel the web of complexities.