“Things get even easier for projects with A-listers when the whole machinery – local administration, cops – swings into action to control crowds, facilitate the shoot and get things done.
“The chief minister has rolled out the red carpet for filmmakers from around the world,” he said. It is easier to shoot now in Kolkata than ever before, claimed Das, who has been a location scout for over 20 years. Saubhik Das (left) with Vidya Balan on the sets of ‘Kahaani 2’. “We have also been shooting inside heritage schools such as St Thomas and St James,” Das said. The favoured locations include the business districts with elegant colonial architecture such as BBD Bagh, the stately mansions in North and South Kolkata, the quirky shops, guest houses and cemeteries dating back to the days of the East India Company off Park Street, the lush green patches of the Maidan (also known as the Brigade Parade Ground), the Rabindra Sarobar in South Kolkata, and the skinny alleys in North Kolkata’s older neighbourhoods. For Sujoy Ghosh’s sequel to his 2012 hit Kahaani, which successfully captured the spirit of the city, Das took the team to Santiniketan on the outskirts of Kolkata. The depiction of Kolkata depends on “the demands of the script”, said Das, an in-demand location scout whose credits include the movies Kahaani, Bullett Raja, Te3n, Kahaani 2 and Meri Pyaari Bindu as well as television commercials. Ayushmann Khurrana in ‘Meri Pyari Bindu’.
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Photographs from the production of Akshay Roy’s upcoming feature-film debut Meri Pyaari Bindu shows us all the Kolkata standards, including yellow Ambassador taxis, hand-pulled rickshaws (actually a rarity on the streets), old houses with slatted windows and the dhoti-clad bhadralok. A recent 3-D recreation of Rabindranath Tagore’s only directorial venture, Natir Puja (1932), was put together by American filmmaker Karl Bardoshat the New Theatre studio in Tollygunge. Other than local directors who have been capturing the city’s many moods, filmmakers from around the country and even the world have been hotfooting it to Kolkata to capture what is left of its rich colonial and cosmopolitan past. Te3n is the latest in an ever-lengthening list of Hindi films to be recently shot in Kolkata. Amitabh Bachchan at the Imambara in Chinsurah in ‘Te3n’. Bihar near College Street and the Park Street cemetery. Te3n also features the reputed restaurant U.P. The Writer’s Building is an imposing 1777 structure, while the beautiful Imambara was built in 1862. “Take the Imambara in Chinsurah, for instance, or the Writer’s Building – no one has shot here before,” said the movie’s location scout, Saubhik Das.
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#TE3N picked up with each passing day… Fri 2.62 cr, Sat 3.96 cr, Sun 4.55 cr. (Read: TE3N movie review: The plot of this Big B, Nawazuddin starrer has too much fuzz)īollywood trade analyst Taran Adarsh shared TE3N’s box office collections on Twitter which shows that on day two, the film saw a growth in its collections. In the international market, the movie managed to collect Rs 1.90 cr on the first day of its release. The movie, which was released over 1169 screens across India and 373 screens overseas on Friday, opened with a collection of Rs 2.61 cr at the Indian box office.