Pradeep Sarkar came to Kolkata to fix an 'Arrange Marriage'

When Pradeep Sarkar landed in Kolkata in the midst of Durga Puja, we thought it was to gauge the audience reaction to his Puja flick, Helicopter Eela, which hit the theatres alongside six Bengali movies. Turns out, the veteran director came down to fix an Arranged Marriage — on reel and not in real. As the title suggests, Arranged Marriage is a short film on love and marriage and Sarkar’s team has been camping in the city since Puja even though the director began shooting on Nabami. The short stars Ali Fazal, whose Victoria & Abdul with Judi Dench premiered at the Venice Film Festival last year. Omkar Kapoor and

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Paul are also part of the project, alongside our very own Lily Chakraborty. Arranged Marriage is one of the four stories that will be clubbed into a film. The other three, I hear, will be by three different directors.