Wanted to portray domestic help for long: Rupa Ganguly

With her Nayan Chapar Dinratri slated for release next week, national award winner Rupa Ganguly asserts she has no qualms about budget if the script is good.
Rupa, the 'Padma Nadir Majhi' actor by Goutam Ghosh, essays the role of a domestic help in the upcoming Sekhar Das flick.
"Sekhar being a very close friend of mine I can sense what he wants even before he completes the sentence. That helps. In Nayan Chapar Dinratri I get to portray a role I had been hankering for long," Rupa told PTI here.
Rupa, who differs with the assertion of this correspondent about low budget films usually extracting more creativity from commited directors, says, "This is a simplistic argument."

"Low or high budget doesnot alter the creativity flow of a fim maker with a vision. But if you ask me I am always intrigued by the challenge by the way a story is told. The narration pattern," she says.
Rupa, however, seems peeved with the distribution pattern of Bengali films describing the process as too hasty.

"See a film like Punascho (starring Rupa and Soumitra Chatterjee after over a decade) was slotted in non-prime time shows with the inference that only unemployed people do watch such films. Many people, holding important positions in their respective careers, had complained about this and the film did not get the space it deserved," she said.

Punascho, apart from Jodi Love Dile Naa Prane, has been nominated in the Indian Panorama section of IFFI while Sekhar's film had already been feted in festivals all over the world.
About Bengali films, including Kacher Swargo by Suchitra Bhattacharya, which had been stalled in post-production phase, Rupa said, "Kacher Swargo is very close to me and I heard it will be released soon.