Babumoshai Bandookbaaz

Babumoshai Bandookbaaz
Directed by Kushan Nandy
Produced by Kiran Shyam Shroff
Ashmith Kunder
Starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Bidita Bag
Country India
Language Hindi

Babumoshai Bandookbaaz is an upcoming Indian action thriller film directed by Kushan Nandy and produced by Kiran Shyam Shroff and Ashmith Kunder.[1] The film features Nawazuddin Siddiqui in the lead role. The film also had Chitrangada Singh in the lead role, but she walked out of the film on 14 June 2016, due to arguments with the director over some intimate scenes with Siddiqui.[2] Later in June 2016, Bengali actress Bidita Bag replaced Singh as the lead actress.[3]

Cast

Production

Casting

In August 2014, the cast of Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Chitrangda Singh, Prosenjit Chatterjee and Roopa Ganguly was announced.[4] Nandy announced that Chatterjee will be seen in a completely "new avatar" in the film, compared to his previous films and Siddiqui will portray the role of a contract killer.[4][7] Confirming the role of Ganguly, she mentioned that she will be appearing as a "foulmouthed politician" in the film.[4] Later, it was reported that Singh will play the role of a cobbler and is learning Bengali language for her dialogues.[8] In October 2014, it was announced that Tahir Raj Bhasin will be playing a "good guy" in the film.[5] Another two actors from Bengal; Biswajit Chakraborty and Tota Roy Chowdhury were announced to be a part of the cast where Chowdhury portrays the role of Das Babu, son of a zamindar, who aims to enter politics.[6]

Later in June 2016, Chitrangda Singh walked out of the project.[9]

Filming

Filming began in December 2014 in Kolkata.[10] The first 8 days of shooting took place in Bolpur, West Bengal and the team was scheduled to continue shooting in Burdwan the next day, when the production team landed into trouble with Federation of Cine Technicians and Workers of Eastern India as some technicians stopped shooting for the film due to "non-clearance of dues".[11] After resolving the issue, the crew moved to Burdwan, and faced another problem when they were "stuck" with more technicians than necessary, resulting in an increasing in their budget, following an allegation made against the shooting unit that they did not pay hotel bills.[6] Following the incidents, the crew returned to Mumbai, and rescheduled the whole film.[12] According to Nandy, the budget increased by nearly a crore due to this incident".[12] In May 2015, the crew returned to Kolkata to continue shoot for some scenes of the film while others were re-shot in other states.[13]

References

  1. ↑ "Kushan Nandy's Chitrangda Singh starrer titled Babumoshai Bandookbaaz". Bollywood Hungama. 10 October 2014. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  2. ↑ "Chitrangada Singh on Her Spat With Babumoshai Bandookbaaz Director". NDTV. 14 June 2016. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
  3. 1 2 Jha, Subhash K (30 June 2016). "Bidita Bag replaces Chitrangda Singh in 'Babumoshai Bandookbaaz'". Daily News & Analysis. Retrieved 2016-07-05.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Sen, Zinia (20 August 2014). "Prosenjit, Roopa Ganguly to share screen with Nawaz, Chitrangda". The Times of India. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  5. 1 2 "Tahir Raj Bhasin turns good guy with 'Babumoshai Bandookbaaz'". Mid Day. 17 October 2014. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Sen, Zinia; Chakraborty, Debajyoti (25 December 2014). "Nawazuddin Siddiqui's film moves out of Bengal after ruckus". The Times of India. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  7. ↑ "Nawazuddin to play a contract killer in Babumoshai Bandookbaaz". The Indian Express. 6 November 2014. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  8. ↑ Upala (9 October 2014). "Chitrangada Singh will be seen mending shoes in Kushan Nandy's next". Daily News and Analysis. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  9. ↑ "Chitrangada walks out of Kushan Nandy's film over lovemaking scenes with Nawazuddin"
  10. ↑ "Hair & there: Chitrangada Singh on hair & skin, and saying Happy New Year to Calcutta". ABP News. 18 December 2014. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  11. ↑ Sen, Zinia (21 December 2014). "Technicians' stir hits film shoot". The Times of India. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  12. 1 2 Pathak, Ankur (24 December 2014). "Kushan Nandy gets into trouble in Mamata land". Mumbai Mirror. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  13. ↑ Dasgupta, Priyanka (5 May 2015). "Saif, Nawaz book June date for boxing duel in Darjeeling". The Times of India. Retrieved 27 September 2015.

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