Perturbed at the short span of middle-small budget films in single screens after its release, actor-activist Kaushik Sen has urged West Bengal government to take the initiative for setting up quality smaller auditoriums in the districts.
This, he said, would satisfy the film-hungry middle class young audience living in districts who want to watch medium budget, Independent Bengali films.
Kaushik, a known theatre personality and drama director besides being a film actor, told PTI "While taking our group Swapnasandhani's production to places like Berhampore, Barasat, Malda, Balurghat, Midnapore and elsewhere I have seen how the middle class audience in metro and mofussil are not much different in their exposure to contemporary times and tastes."
He was speaking on the sidelines of trailer launch of 'Kalo Bhramar' the first ever Bengali film on the exploits of popular fictional sleuth Kiriti where he portrayed the dark and complex 'Kalo Bhramar' and Dr Sanyal.
Advocating that the present government, which wants to promote film industry, has to do it's bit in setting up quality stand alone halls in district towns, Kaushik, one of the intellectuals having voiced his opinion on several contemporary issues during Left Front and Trinamool Congress rule said, "I don't have much contacts with our CM or the key ministers in this government".
"Hence my request will be through Bengali film ambassadors like Prosenjt Chatterjee to take up the issue with the higher-ups in the government and exploit the hunger for new genre of middle budget, Independent Bengali films among the young generation of Bengalees in districts who don't have the chance to flock to theatres in Kolkata and it's outskirts regularly."
Talking about his two upcoming films - Kalo Bhramar and Zulfiqar- Kaushik said "Our films are now increasingly reflecting the murky world of corruption, crime, murder which have become regular staple for daily news."
"For any interesting small-middle budget film like Kalo Bhramar to be successful we need to expand our audience base from the city. One Prakton or Open Tee Bioscope can't effect the turnaround in box office fortunes of Bengali films in a bigger way. Hence the need for state backing to set up new theatres in districts," he said.
