Hindi film based on Tagore's Ghare Baire to release next month

Kolkata, June 25 () More than three decades after Satyajit Ray made a film on Rabindranath Tagore's eponymous work "

Ghare Baire

," young filmmaker

Reema Mukherjee

is making a Hindi movie inspired by the famous novel. While

Tagore

's famous work, written in 1916, dwelt on the Swadeshi movement, a cultural protest against western ideas posing a challenge to the traditional thinking, Reema's "

Ardhangini Ek Ardhsatya

" is set in the first decade of the present millennium. "In my film, I tried to get answer to questions that arose in my mind while reading Tagore's novel," the Mumbai-based writer-director told here. The three famous characters-Sandip, Nikhilesh and Bimala-are played by Subrat Dutta, Subodh Bhabe and

Srilekha Mitra

respectively. "My objective was to merge the sensibilities of the two strands of regional cinema - Marathi and Bengali - through the actors established there. Asserting that she was not afraid of her work being compared with Ray's 'Ghare Baire,' where Soumitra Chatterjee (

Sandip

), Victor Banerjee (Nikhilesh) and Swatilekha Sengupta (

Bimala

) played the principal characters,

Reema

said, "I feel the previous film adaptation of 'Ghare Baire' was more simplistic with all respect to the great film maker." Asked why she did not use

Rabindra Sangeet

in the film, Reema said, "While music plays an important role in 'Ardhangini...,' there is no scope for Tagore songs. In fact there was no Tagore song in the original novel." She said she did not feel the need to introduce a Tagore song just because she was adapting a Tagore classic. Celebrated singer like Sukhwinder Singh, Hariharan, Vasundhara Das, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Raghav Chatterjee have lend their voice to film's album. The project has primarily been shot in

Gujarat

, near

Sundarbans

in

West Bengal

and in Mumbai. The film is scheduled to release on July 1. SUS MD CR LNS SHD