By:
Subhash
K.
Jha,
IndiaFM
Friday,
October
26,
2007
Rituparno
Ghosh
isn't
only
a
film
director.
He
has
edited
a
widely-read
Bengali
magazine
for
a
number
of
years.
He
has
served
as
costume
designer,
art
director
and
an
all-purpose
all-in-one
man-on-the-spot
on
his
sets.
He
has
even
dubbed
some
emotional
dialogues
for
some
of
his
superstar
leading
ladies
from
Mumbai
when
they've
not
been
able
to
get
their
dramatic
pitch
right.
But
his
latest
role
as
a
lyric
writer
for
Deepa
Mehta
has
taken
everyone
by
surprise.
The
Toronto-based
filmmaker
has
asked
her
prolific
colleague
from
Kolkata
to
write
a
song,
and
that
too
in
the
Bihari
Brij
Bhasha,
for
her
Amitabh
Bachchan
period
epic
Kamagata
Maru
to
be
filmed
next
year.
Exults
Deepa,
"I
think
Rituparno
is
a
wonderful
human
being
and
an
astonishing
filmmaker.
But
when
I
heard
his
songs
in
the
Brij
Bhasha
sung
by
Shubha
Mudgal
for
Raincoat
which
he
had
written
I
knew
I
had
found
my
lyricist
for
Kamagata
Maru.
The
song
will
be
filmed
on
a
homesick
nostalgia-driven
Bihari
traveling
far
away
from
home."
Ritu
has
agreed
to
do
it.
"Deepa
is
someone
whom
I
really
respect.
And
why
just
her?
I"ve
also
written
Bengali
dialogues
for
Mira
Nair
in
The
Namesake
and
for
a
number
of
Aparna
Sen's
films
including
Yugant
and
her
documentary
An
Unordinary
City
on
Kolkata."