With Bengali film industry wooing audiences having exotic locations in Europe and East Asia, Baba Yadav-directed Boss, casting superstar Jeet and Subhosree now turns its focus on Turkey, bringing the exotic land to Bengali viewers for the first time.
The film's title track 'Mon Majhi Re' was shot in the interior mountainous zone with sharply contrasting weather conditions as the story line demanded a departure from the grim, gritty look of the Mumbai chawls which were the epicenter of the script and the Mediterranean land was the obvious choice, popular choreographer-turned-director Baba Yadav said.
"The shots were taken in extreme freezing conditions but none of the actors complained. Subhosree even felt unwell as the shooting went on in a waterbody with freezing cold and Jeet picked her up as she was tripping.
She resumed shoot after being given hot shower and draped in four blanekts. The chemistry and camaraderie between the top two actors and their commitment will show on the screen and the audience will not get to know how much physically difficult it was there," Yadav said.
Recalling the near-scary experience, Subhosree said, "I felt numbed momentarily in the water. I shivered and felt like fainting. I felt as if put inside a refrigerator but Jeetda and the entire team was so caring."
This time we settled for Turkey as a departure from the Swiss Alps, deserts or the picturesque Thailand offering the Bengali audience a new treat for eyes, Yadav said.
"The story starts in Mumbai, when the town is declared as a crime free city. Obviously Mumbai and its signature chawls are inseparable from the swanky apartments," the director said.
"You will see a new 'gharana' in Boss, which has its locale in Mumbai, unlike most previous Bengali masala films locations. I am excited to be part of a Bengali film where the storyline revolves round another city, which is so familiar in Hindi films but had never been referred in a Tolly project in the way Boss has," Jeet said.
"And my character Surya comes with a mission, to rid Mumbai of mafia dons," the Sindhi-turned-'Bong', having grown up in south Kolkata bylanes and first having courted fame in potboiler Sathi, 11 years back said.
He said Boss, a 'grassroot' film produced by Reliance Entertainment could be another trend-setter with the Bengali film industry going through one of its most exciting phases as different genres were apparently merging, a trend having taken place in Bollywood for past six years.
