Director Birsa Dasgupta, currently shooting in Istanbul with his team, which includes West Bengal IT minister Bratya Basu, today said that they faced no problem and the situation there is normal after the attempted military coup in Turkey.
"We had shooting yesterday. Today is our off day. From tomorrow we will again start shooting. We are all safe and faced no problem," he told a Bengali TV channel from Istanbul.
Dasgupta said there are 30-35 people from Kolkata in his team including Basu, also a theatre and film personality. "Apart from Bratya Basu, others included film actors Yash, Mimi Chakrabarty and Gourab Chakrabarty", Dasgupta said.
He said today the situation is normal in Istanbul where the people were on the streets shouting "We want democracy".
The director said around 20-25 days of shooting are left.
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Actor Yash tweeted, "Thank you Istanbul for making us feel like home, nothing to worry about..."
The shooting unit has been in Istanbul since July 10 and Basu joined them on Friday, few hours prior to the coup attempt.
