Again, Pauli Dam in Bangladeshi cinema

Fakhrul Arefin Khan is a very talented director of the country’s film industry. Who made his debut with the movie ‘Bhuban Majhi’. After that he produced two movies named ‘Gandi’ and ‘JK 1971’. On the other hand, Pauli Dam is a well-known actress in the film world of Kolkata or Tollywood. This actress loves to work in diverse roles rather than appearing on screen as a traditional heroine. Bengali filmmaker Fakhrul Arefin Khan and talented actress Pauli Dam are going to team up through the director’s fourth movie ‘Neel Jochna’.

This government funded movie is based on Mushtaq Ahmed’s parapsychology novel ‘Neel Jochna’s Jiban’. This time popular West Bengal actress Pauly Dam is acting in Arefin’s movie. She will be seen playing the female lead role of Laila in the movie. Producer Fakhrul Arefin Khan signed an official contract with Pauli at Decalogue Management Center in Kolkata last Wednesday. Who will be opposite Pauly in the movie is yet to be finalised. However, the producer said that he will select an actor from the country opposite Pauli. He will finalize it very soon.

Acted with Shakib Khan in the movie ‘Satta’. After a long time, he is going to act in Bangladeshi movies again. Talking about acting in Bangladeshi movies again, Pauli said, ‘Filmmaker Fakhrul Arefin Khan contacted me about this movie last year. First I heard the story from him, as 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.’

This actress also said, ‘To tell the truth, parallel universe has not been worked on in Bengal. Some work has been done in Hollywood. Examples include Christopher Nolan’s The Interestler, Inception.’

Producer Fakhrul Arefin Khan said, I started working on the movie ‘Neel Jochna’ about 6 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 Corona and my movie ‘JK 1971’. After that, I started the work again from the beginning of last year.

Regarding the inclusion of Paoli Dam in this new film, the director said, ‘Laila is one of the female characters in our story, which goes a lot with Paoli Dam. Which is why we chose him for this 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 producer said, the shooting of the movie ‘Neel Jochna’ will start at the end of next month and will continue till the last week of July.