'Aashbo Aar Ek Din', the first Bengali film on organ transplant, has been penned by a gastroenterologist-turned-producer Kalyan Basu.
The film explores the choice between the superstition of the donor being maimed in the after life and death for the recipient for want of a transplant.
"I wrote the script based on my experiences in the medical profession and the accounts of fellow practitioners. We have not succeeded in convincing the common man that brain death means death in real terms and that organs can be of use to save precious lives," Basu said
"The process has to be initiated at the earliest once a person is diagnosed brain dead. I wish everybody to see the film to know how situations and crisis emerge in real life all of a sudden," he added.
Basu said when he narrated the script to director Abhijit Dasgupta, he was overwhelmed. "And, we decided to collaborate as director and producer respectively," Basu, said.
"'Aashbo Aar Ek Din' on the surface is a simple tale of urban families where liver transplant is talked about in simple narrative sans medical jargon," Dasgupta said.
The film, a story of love, lust and relationships, dwells on the issue of brain death.
'Baishe Srabon' actor Abir Chatterjee, said, "The making of films on medical issues mirrors the coming of age of our audiences. It is not an overtly preachy film. But, it takes a stance against religion and society," Abir, who has paired Swastika Mukherjee in the film, said.
