"Was very nervous to see how people in my own turf receive the film. It was shown at Kerala Film Festival in 2010, it was screened at the Cine Central film fest last year. But now it seems ordinary film goers have connected to the film," director Joydeep Ghosh said after the premier.
'Mayabazar' tells three stories linked by illusionary ideas of sub-conscious human mind with a super-natural feel.
"The film's subject crosses the frontiers of love, obsession, philosophy, it is timeless, and I am happy people could relate to the situation," Ghosh said.
Celebrated actor Dhritiman Chatterjee, who turned up in one of the three stories dealing with premonition of death, said "while many of the new Bengali films are nothing but putting to celluloid drama with too much emphasis on dialogues, Mayabazar is what true cinematic language is all about."
Chatterjee plays an eccentric mathematics professor in the film which also stars Roopa Ganguly in another story.
"I am happy the way such a film has been produced by the NFDC and how it is being marketed," said Ganguly who essayed the character of a forlorn woman.
