Based on Mushtaq Ahmed’s parapsychology novel “Neel Jochna’s Life”, Fakhrul Arefin Khan is making a movie titled “Neel Jochna” with government funding. Popular West Bengal actress Pauly Dam has been signed to act in the movie. She is playing the main female character of the movie “Layla”.
Recently, producer Fakhrul Arefin signed an official agreement with Pauli at Decalog Management Center in Kolkata.
West Bengal actor Parambrata Chatterjee was seen in Fakhrul Arefin’s first film “Bhuvan Majhi”. After that, two movies named “Gandhi” and “JK 1971” were made with West Bengal’s elite actor Sabyasachi Chakraborty.
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“Neel Jochna” is his fourth movie directed.
Who will be opposite Pauly in the movie is yet to be finalised. However, the director said to select an actor from the country for this role.
Regarding acting in Bangladeshi movies, Pauli told reporters on the phone, “Last year, director Fakhrul Arefin Khan contacted me about this movie. First I heard the story from him, since I had not read that book by Mushtaq Ahmed, then when I read the book, it was great. It can be said that I have been associated with this movie since that day. The ceremony was held last Wednesday.”
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Earlier, Pauly acted in a movie called “Satta” opposite Shakib Khan. The movie released in 2017 is directed by Hasibur Reza Kallol.
Pauli also said, “To be honest, parallel universe has not been worked on in Bengal. Some work has been done in Hollywood. Among them are Christopher Nolan’s ‘Interesters’, ‘Inception’.
Producer Fakhrul Arefin Khan said, I started working on the movie “Neel Jochna” about six years ago. At the end of 2018. I think there has been no work on parapsychology in Bangladesh before. And that’s why when I read Mushtaq Ahmed’s novel, I immediately thought of making a movie. Then in 2019 the work was stopped due to covid and my movie “JK 1971”. Then I started the work again from the beginning of last year.
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About bringing in Pauly Dam in the new film, the director said, “Laila is one of the female characters in our story, which goes a lot with Pauly Dam, which is why we chose her for the role in the first place. Then Pauli was contacted, he was sent the script and he also agreed to act in our movie. Hopefully, we can finish the job very well with Pauly.”
The shooting of “Neel Jochna” will begin by the end of next month and will continue till the last week of July.
