Saturday, November 22, 2008

Sharmila Tagore and Anupam Kher are paired together


Nilima is a student of Presidency College. Joymohan is a lecturer. They are in love but must separate for certain reasons and meet after 10 years during a morning walk in Shimla. They are now married to different people. They take a trip down memory lane only to separate again. Their paths cross one more time 27 years later, during a morning walk on the streets of Mumbai. During this last stroll, Joymohan begins to suspect that he is probably the biological father of Nilima's daughter.
For the first time, Sharmila Tagore and Anupam Kher are paired together in a film.

Others in the cast are Nargis Bagheri who made a mark in Priyadarshan's Garam Masala as Sharmila's daughter and model Shayan Munshi who plays her fiancé. Rajit Kapoor plays Anupam's son and Divya Dutta plays his wife. Soumili Biswas and Tanmoy Sengupta play the young versions of Nilima and Joymohan respectively. Suman Ranganathan and little Avika Gor who is playing the title role on Balika Vadhu on Colours, are also in the film.
Arup Dutta's directorial debut Morning Walk is a Hindi film being shot in Kolkata because the story is set in Kolkata and opens during the disturbing days of the Naxalite revolution. Arup Dutta honed his skills in filmmaking with episodes for Balaji Telefilms and other production houses in Mumbai. The Kolkata-based Cinemawallah that also produced Rituparno Ghosh's Utsab and Titli besides producing Anjan Dutt's Bow Barracks Forever is producing the film.
"Morning Walk explores the relationship between Joymohan and Nilima and the title is significant because the morning walks form the backbone of the film's narrative structure, each time functioning as a catharsis in the lives of the man and the woman as they grow older with time," explained Dutta who is shooting at Kumartuli, Victoria Memorial, the Kolkata Race Course and Dakshineswar. The sound track comprised of a thumri sung by Rashid Khan and Shreya Ghoshal, has already been canned.



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