The moment one steps into Basu Bati, a 141-year-old mansion, an eerie feeling creeps in with its dark, deserted rooms flanked by stately columns and arches creating an ambience horror.
No wonder, the building, located in Baghbazar in north Kolkata, has become the favourite shooting spot for thriller and peiod movies.
Basu Bati, founded by the Basus (not the painter Nandalal Bose family), the then zamindars of Gaya in the 19th century, had guests like Swami Viveknanda, Rabindranath Tagore and was a rallying point against the 1905 anti-partition movement.
Just yesterday, the trailer launch of the film "Shob Bhooturey" took place at the building and director Birsha Dasgupta said he was very impressed by the atmosphere.
The mansion earlier hosted director Srijit Mukherjee whose much-acclaimed "Baishe Srabon" was shot there.
Shob Bhooturey actor Abir Chatterjee said it seemed to him while shooting at the place that the walls were whispering something in silence.
Period film 'Elar Chaar Adhyay', based on Tagore's eponymous work, had also been shot in the house and a Durga idol was installed in the 'Thakur Dalan' (place of deity worship in household) in 2012 during a shooting sequence.
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