Shoojit Sircar to create the 90s Kolkata era in his new film

Shoojit Sircar has teamed up with popular singer-lyricist-music director-writer Anindyo Chattopadhya to produce Open Tee Bioscope. Essentially a tale of children growing up into youngsters, Open Tee Bioscope has the spirit of the classics of the 90s like Dhonni Meye but is contemporary and fresh in content and style. "When we discussed the film first, after Aparajita Tumi, I cited to Anindyo examples of old classics including Dhonni Meye which centered on football, human emotions, traditional Kolkata and its people while contemporizing it with present day tale of the adolescent," Shoojit said. "The classics which both we and our parents and grandparents as well as our children and the younger generation get hooked to and can't give up watching," said Shoojit. Shoojit, who had made his first foray in Bengali film production in Aniruddha Roychoudhury's Aparajita Tumi, said that Open Tee Bioscope was obviously poles apart from the former in content, look and execution. “When I take up a film, the story line has to be intriguing first. And the story of a boy growing up into a man, with his first puff, crushes, stealing glance of girls of his age, taking part in para tournament, rivalry has to be fascinating if told in a fresh manner," he said. The film, to be extensively shot in the lanes, alleys and a prominent park in north Kolkata where para football tourneys hold centre stage, will have autographical references of the director-producer duo, the latter still yearning for those days when he was a lanky 14-year old hired by para football clubs for local tourneys with the promise of tiffin and travel expenses and looking out for excuses to escape the prying eye of mother who insisted he stayed back home. Shoojit, proud to hail from the era of the 90s, wishes to direct a film in future essentially with the feel and look of North Kolkata which boasts of lip-smacking delicacies at modest looking, table top restaurants running for ages, unique architecture heritage mansions, roads and tram lines everything. But whenever it happens that will be in Hindi.