Cautoning the audience to be stunned if they expected any 'feel good' experience in upcoming 'Aschorjyo Prodeep,' as in his previous Bhooter Bhabisyot, director Anik Dutta today said the film has many firsts.
"First time a genie and a lamp prop up in a film on moden life, and if the audience expects an Arabiansque fantasy unfolding on screen, he or she will be stunned," the Tollywood trend setter 'Bhooter Bhobisyot' maker told PTI.
To a question, Anik concurred, "Yes, Aschorjyo Prodeep's genie can be equated with the credit card syndrome afflicting the modern urban Bengalee who cannot come out of the cycle.
For another first, on lines of European films, the two leading cast members - Saswata Chatterjee and Rajatabha Dutta - are made to croon a number in the flick, in rap style.
"As Saswata's (Chatterjee) character, a salesman, turns into a millionaire following his tryst with the genie (played by Rajatabha Dutta), he takes charge of a swanky office and gets overwhelmed with the decor. This gets reflected in the song in conversational form 'ei pellay office' to the accompaniment of music," he said.
"Everybody around me knows what happens when I start singing but Anikda and Raja were after me (music director Raja Naryan Deb). I tried to deliver as they prodded at recording but I enjoyed the whole experience. And Rajatabha is a much superior singer," the Nilkantha Bagchi aka Ritwik Ghatak in Meghe Dhaka Tara, said in his characterstic style.
"I had difficulty in adapting to the staccato style with some intonation as they had suggested and Apu (Saswata) is not such a bad singer as he claims," Rajatabha, the critically acclaimed actor in Aparna Sen's Paromitar Ekdin said.
In another first, the film marks popular singer Amit Kumar's comeback to playback in the film again reinventing his father's popular Bengali track "Prithivi Bodle Gechhe'.
"Amit has rendered Charidik bodley gachey, sung in a car sequence, with the essential feel of the late 70s number, immortalised by father Kishore Kumar in superhit Anando Ashram, Raja said.
Director Anik Dutta said while his previous film had traces of Scottish music besides classical Bengali ones like 'Nidhubabur Tappa', here Mozart and Tagore had been the inspirations.
