Shantilal O Projapoti Rohoshyo
Shantilal O Projapoti Rohoshyo is an Indian Bengali mystery-thriller film, directed by Pratim D. Gupta. The film starred Ritwick Chakraborty, Paoli Dam and Goutam Ghose in lead roles. It was released on 16 August 2019 under the banner of Platoon One Films.
Plot
Shantilal, a deadbeat weather reporter of a Kolkata based newspaper, who is in his late 30s, still unmarried and lives with his mother. Glamorous actress Nandita now wants to venture into politics. While Shantilal is watching old porn film he finds body part of Nandita in a clipping of famous porn star of Padma Pictures, Miss Roshni. Being curious he starts investigation about the porn film production house, Padma Pictures in Chennai. Shantilal moves from Kolkata to Chennai to Singapore to find Roshni. But no one wants to speak about Padma Pictures.Cast
- Ritwick Chakraborty as Shantilal
- Paoli Dam as Nandita
- Goutam Ghose as editor of The Sentinel
- Akshay Kapoor as Hindol
- Srijit Mukherji as Praffula
- Ambarish Bhattacharya as Rocket Ronjon
- Shankar Chakraborty as Shantilal's friend
- Alakananda Ray as Shantilal's mother
- Chitrangada Chakraborty as Candy
- Sanghasri Sinha Mitra as Roshni
Production
Development
The screenplay of the film was selected for the 2013 Indian edition of the prestigious Sundance Lab, organised by Sundance Institute, where Pratim got to discuss and dissect his script with international writers and directors like Asif Kapadia, Bill Wheeler, Joshua Marston, Carlos Cuaron and Marti Noxon. The film was titled Ink at that time.The script was subsequently read by actor Irrfan Khan who wished to direct the film for private television channel. Pratim declined Irrfan because he wished to make the film himself.