both dhaka and west bengal minister of information government of peoples republic of bangladesh hasanul haq inu and bangladesh film development corporation bfdc manager director pijush bandyopadhaya along with film actors and directors from bangladesh met tollywood superstar prasenjit chatterjee director rituparno ghosh and several bengali film producers of tollywood as a first intiative to set up a common platform to have a one bangla film industry it would be wonderful if we can come up with a one bengali film industry market for west bengal and bangladesh we will further meet several times to discuss on this initiative we could start with a plan to set up 100 cinema halls each on both sides of bengal if we can work together and can set up a common platform the bengali film industry market could have an annual turnover of rs 10000 crore in the next five years said prasenjit bangladesh information minister hasanul haq inu said that it was wonderful that the ideas which he had discussed on in his last trip to kolkata one and half months ago are taking a realistic shape there are about 30 crore bengali speaking people all over the world cooperation between both bangla will help in developing the bengali film industry there are challenges though like the challenge of indecency the challenge of new technology the challenge of piracy and the challenge of investment he said bfdc md pijush bandyopadhaya said that they want to catch the world market by putting up bengali film industry upfront in a joint initiative we have started a little late but we have finally started on digitisation of the cinema halls in bangladesh he said according to plans there will be cultural centers in all the districts in both west bengal and bangladesh where there will be a cinema hall an auditorium a library and a cafeteria there will two advisory committees one each for west bengal and bangladesh and a five member steering committee will overall look into the joint initiative