“I made multiple trips to this place in 2014. Filmed in and around, West Bengal’s Bolpur, the film captures the beauty of rural Bengal. Sahaj Paather Gappo joins films, such as Sairat (Marathi) and Thithi (Kannada), which have explored rural locations for cinematic impact. Even after he spotted Nur Islam and Samiul Alam, who play Chhotu and Gopal, respectively, getting them to act required a lot of cajoling and an eight-month-long preparation. Pal went to a number of schools in North 24-Parganas district. Watching them reminded me of the two brothers in Talnabami, who always bounced back after every setback and cheered each other up,” says Pal, who has had no formal training in filmmaking.įor the movie’s authenticity, it was necessary to cast children who spoke the dialect and had the body language of rural people. I loved their free spirit and positive attitude. During his days as a teacher, he would often observe the children living in a neighbourhood slum.
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Pal started working for a Kolkata-based NGO and teaching at a school in Shyambazar. “All I was getting, however, were bit roles in Bengali movies,” he says. Those who talk in chaste Bengali tend to look down upon this dialect as the language of rustic folks,” says Pal, who lives in Barasat, on the outskirts of Kolkata.Īs a youngster, Pal wanted to be an actor.
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“My mother, who comes from that area, speaks this dialect, which has an inherent sweetness. The film uses a Bengali dialect that’s spoken in the West Bengal-Bangladesh border region.
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The original story is of three pages and adapting it into a script for a 86-minute movie was not easy.
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The story revolves around two young brothers, Gopal and Chhottu, who remain optimistic in spite of the hardships that the family undergoes when their father meets with an accident.