so you are coming down to shoot in kolkatayes i will be shooting early next year but i need to make a few more trips to the city before that voice from the sky is a period film thats set in the kolkata of 1905 its a very simple heartwarming story of a boy who is looking for his mother its a film about a child and the invention of the telephonewhy did you opt for akshaye khanna when your first choice was saif ali khanthere were certain issues between saif and me that we couldnt work out so we thought it best to shake hands and move on i then did some soul searching akshaye khanna would be good for me and the filmwhat about the child actors are you launching fresh facesive shortlisted quite a few fresh faces voice from the sky is in the genre of films like masoom there is a lot of stuff in the film for children but people of all ages will be able to watch it instead of recreating the 1905 kolkata in mumbai why do you insist on shooting in kolkatai will recreate certain portions but i wish to shoot most of the stuff in the villages of bengal and also in the forests the kind of topography and vegetation there is something thats rarely found in other parts of india the paddy fields the red earth i want to use all that in my film people i feel have no idea of what bengal was like in 1905 of course there would be many who wouldnt be able to tell the difference had i shot in a field or a forest in maharashtra but i dont want anyone to watch my film and then exclaim and say oh it was never like this then a lot of research is required in doing a period filmyes ive been working with cowriter rajesh devraj ive read up sunil gangopadhyays those days production designer suzanne merwanji has been researching on this too unfortunately not too many indian museums have details of that period hence we had suzanne make a trip to the british museum to find details about early india ive also been given books on abanindranath tagore and rabindranath tagore kolkata we must remember was then the hub of creativity and political life period films often run into trouble because of divergence in terms of facts availabletrue but ours is a fictional film the historical facts are kept in the background of course we do take some cinematic libertiesbollywood directors often go wrong with the hindi accent when they set their films in bengal how are you guarding against thatmy wifes father was from kolkata she has family there too but adhuna hasnt lived in kolkata unfortunately im not very good with languages the language im most comfortable with is hindi there is no doubt in my mind that people would be speaking in bengali during 1905 the characters of my