Filmmaker Kaushik Ganguly, actor Parambrata Chatterjee, DoP Soumik Halder and veteran actress Alokananda Ray shoot for Cinemawala at a city studio on Monday morning. The film focuses on the sad state of single-screen theatres and how it affects a father-son relationship
The cast has has veterans like
Paran Bandopadhyay,
Biswanath Basu, Bimal Chakraborty and others. Said producer Shrikant Mohta of Shree Venkatesh Films, "This movie is our tribute to those brave single screen exhibitors, who are struggling for existence in this industry.
Be it a producer, director or exhibitor, we all are cinemawalas trying to reach out to the audience."
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