The
Chak
De
casting
director
Abhimanyu
Ray
was
debutant
director
Rupali
Guha"s
saviour.
After
Rupali
saw
the
way
the
new
girls
had
been
cast
in
Chak
De
she
gathered
the
courage
to
make
her
first
film
Aamras
with
four
new
girls.
“After
Chak
De
I
was
adamant.
It
had
to
be
fresh
faces
no
matter
how
much
the
pressure
to
get
stars.
I"m
glad
I
stuck
to
my
guns.
The
four
news
girls
Vega,
Natasha,
Manvi
and
Aanchal
are
the
backbone
of
my
film
about
girl
bonding."
Debutant
director
Rupali
Guha
has
a
hard
act
to
follow.
Her
father
is
the
formidably
prolific
Basu
Chatterjee
and
her
father-in-law
is
the
equally
formidable
Dulal
Guha.
Both
legendary
in
there
own
right.
And
yet
Rupali
had
to
knock
from
door
to
door
to
get
her
first
screenplay
approved.
“I
went
to
everyone
from
UTV
onwards.
They
all
said,
'Who"ll
watch
this
film?" Or
worse,
'Get
Shahid
Kapoor
to
play
the
boyfriend."
How
could
I
fit
Shahid
Kapoor
into
a
film
about
the
bonding
among
four
18-year-old
girls
played
by
four
absolutely
new
faces?"
The
story
of
Aamras
was
born
from
debutant
director
Rupali
Guha"s
13-year
old
daughter
Jonaki"s
experiences.
Says
the
director,
“When
I
was
growing
up
I
had
just
one
best
friend
and
then
I
had
my
family.
My
daughter
has
a
circle
of
eleven
close
friends
from
different
strata
of
society.
And
she
comes
home
with
very
different
experiences.
I
needed
to
understand
her
world
of
incompatible
emotions.
Aamras
has
given
me
a
chance
to
open
up
my
daughter"s
world."
Next,
Rupali
is
working
on
script
called
Cinderella
about
a
girl"s
dreams
of
a
Prince
Charming
falling
to
pieces.
Regrettably
Rupali"s
father
Basuda
is
in
Kolkata
and
has
not
seen
the
complete
film.
“I
can"t
wait
for
his
reaction," says
the
nervous
daughter
and
a
mother
whose
daughter
is
nervously
wondering
how
much
of
her
life
her
mom
has
put
on
screen.