to his origin are there in saradindus stories already im just developing them the author wrote his bomkesh stories in two phases the earlier one shows him as more adventurous while the later one sees him married more settled im looking at bomkesh in his earlier younger avatar it will also explore the question as to why did bomkesh become a detective in the first place in 1942 a young man fresh out of college would probably look for a government job so why did he turn into a detectivewith this film youre taking up two challenges detective films dont have a fantastic boxoffice record in hindi on top of that yours is a period film arent you jitteryat least five times as many action films fail at the box office as detective films but do we blame the action genre for that so why blame detective films its not about the genre but about how you tell the story do you think of godfather or lagaan as a period film you dont because these classics use the period in the context of the narrative if you use period as just an excuse for vacuous art direction and costume drama then of course you get a bad film when i made khosla ka ghosla they said films without stars dont work for oye lucky lucky oye they said this sort of screenplay wouldnt have takers for love sex aur dhokha they said the digicam format would be too much for audiences for shanghai it was like no one wants to watch political films but i love these challenges for bomkesh my treatment is that of a rogroge goppo the old yarn that never lets you go its a story you listen to over cha muri aar peyanji itll be pure entertainmentfirst you adapt a satyajit ray story for bombay talkies now saradindu is there a kick in taking these bengali classics to audiences beyond bengals borderstrust me these are stories ive always been wanting to tell ive been wanting to make bomkesh from the time i was 14 since ive grown up in delhi there are two sides of me theres the panindia guy who makes films like lsd and khosla ka ghosla but deep inside me there is something innately bengali my connection to my bengaliness in my growingup years was through books books and more books and these are some of the stories ive been wanting to take to audiences worldwide if i was not a filmmaker i would have been a translator with bomkesh i feel like a 10yearold whos been given the most exciting toys in the world when i make the film in hindi the challenge will be to make bomkeshs bengaliness appeal to a wider universal audiencehow do you want to recreate kolkata of the 1940sthe city itself will be a character in the film theres so much to explore kolkata during the second world war the trams buses hustlebustle bomkesh walking