By:
Subhash
K.
Jha,
IndiaFM
Thursday,
October
04,
2007
Back
in
Kolkata
from
Toronto
after
gathering
glory
and
raves
for
The
Last
Lear,
Rituparno
Ghosh
sneaked
into
Mumbai
last
week
with
his
regular
cinematographer
Abhik
Mukherjee
to
film
the
immersion
ceremony
of
the
Ganpati
festival.
Reluctantly
revealing
the
reason
for
his
flash
visit
into
the
thick
of
Mumbai's
most
vaunted
festivity
Ritu
says,
"I
shot
the
Ganpati
ceremony
for
a
short
film
on
Mumbai
that
I'm
doing.
It
would
be
an
outsider's
view,
in
my
case
a
Kolkatian's
view
of
a
city
that
can
be
so
nurturing
and
also
awfully
cruel
especially
to
outsiders."
Ritu's
film
tentatively
titled
Mangal
Moorty,
has
been
partly
shot
on
the
streets
of
Mumbai.
The
interiors
have
now
been
designed
on
a
set
in
Kolkata
where
Rituparno
is
busy
shooting
and
chuckling
over
the
irony
of
shooting
a
film
on
Mumbai
in
Kolkata.
"I
was
keen
to
do
this
film.
It
gives
me
restricted
space
to
make
my
statement
on
Mumbai.
I've
never
done
that
before.
Though
I'm
from
Kolkata,
Mumbai
has
given
me
so
much.
This
is
a
homage
to
a
city
that's
second
home
to
me
and
so
many
other
Kolkatians
like
Hemant
Mukherjee,
Sachin
Dev
Burman,
Bimal
Roy,
Hrishikesh
Mukherjee
and
Mithun
Chakraborty
whom
Mumbai
embraced
so
wholeheartedly."
The
film
is
a
part
of
a
series
being
produced
by
two
Mumbaiites
Niyati
Shah
and
Samrat
Sengupta
who
own
a
company
called
White
Cloud.
Other
filmmakers
asked
to
contribute
to
the
Mumbai
bouquet
are
Anurag
Kashyap,
Revathy,
Aziz
Mirza,
Kundan
Shah,
Saket
Chowdhary,
Manish
Jha
and
Sudhir
Mishra.
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