its fate was decided i heard the film was badhow many byomkesh rights did rituparno ghosh have ritu had first come to me for jhinder bandi he would land up at my residence once every month he would reach at 7 in the morning and stay till 1 pm one day during an adda session he said prabir kaka ami byomkesh korbo i asked him whom he wanted to cast as byomkesh he said keno bumba prosenjit chatterjee they even did a photoshoot but after abirs chatterjee photos surfaced in the papers ritu dropped the idea ritu had the rights to chorabali apart from two other stories he couldnt make jhinder bandi because he couldnt find a good producer much later he revived the byomkesh project i remember sujoy had called me to talk about tungabhadrar tirey and how nervous he was since he couldnt say no to rituwhen you sold the rights to rituparno ghosh wasnt anjan dutt upset when ritu came to me to buy the rights i told him that anjan already had some of them he said anjan could make it his way i called up anjan and he said the same thing there were no issues between them everhow long do filmtv rights stay with the person buying them as i said they are generally for three years at times they remain for seven years depending on the amount paid they come back to me after the specific timespan at times agreements also specify the directors names dibakar banerjee first came to me eightnine years back he is sudiptaa chakrabortys uncle and she got me introduced to him when i met him i realized he was mad about sharadindu he called me up and asked me to watch khosla ka ghosla which was premiering on tv i liked the film immensely and took a liking to him too earlier he was supposed to produce the byomkesh film himself but then when the producer was locked he helped me negotiate it was finally sold for many lakhs around three years back our agreement is such that if he doesnt do another film the rights come back to me what i liked about dibakar was the way he did his research he remained camped up in kolkata for about eight months he asked me about the famous mess on harrison road even before sharadindubabu jibanananda das used to stay there its in a desolate state dibakar was so thrilled that he started jumping when i took him there he was keen on shooting there but i said the building would collapse if his team of nearly 100 people enters it finally the mess was entirely recreated in mumbaibasu chatterjee made byomkesh famous long back through his tv series who had sold the rights to him my father though not much money was involved back then basu chatterjee got the rights for 10 years against a measly sum of 3 lakh the series went on to be very