Kolkata:
Film director Gautam Ghosh, actor Prosenjit Chatterjee and actor Dev (who is also a Trinamool Congress MP) met Mamata Banerjee this afternoon to end the impasse at Tollygunge studios that has halted film and TV serial shoots. West Bengal minister Arup Biswas was also present at the meeting held at the state secretariat Nabanna this afternoon. Mamata Banerjee posted a cryptic message on her Facebook page after the meeting. In the post, she said, “We met, we talked and it felt good.”
Dev also shared a photo of the meeting and wrote, “Thank you Didi @MamataOfficial. Hope everything will be fine by evening. N will resume shooting from tomorrow. Thanks to all the technicians, producers, directors and all stakeholders.”
thank you didi @mamtaofficial
Hopefully everything will be resolved by evening
N will resume shooting from tomorrowThanks to all the technicians, producers, directors and all stakeholders pic.twitter.com/Su6HqPBbzG
— Dev (@idevadhikari) July 30, 2024
Re-sharing Dev’s tweet on his Instagram profile, Prosenjit Chatterjee wrote, “Thank you Didi @MamataOfficial. We all wanted to resume shooting from tomorrow with your help. Thank you to all the technicians, producers, directors and all stakeholders.”
thank you didi @mamtaofficial
We all want the shooting to resume from tomorrow with your support.Thanks to all the technicians, producers, directors and all stakeholders. https://t.co/Be5cRMjKrT
– Prosenjit Chatterjee (@prosengitbumba) July 30, 2024
Earlier meetings held at Tollygunge Studios failed to end the deadlock.
The shooting has come to a halt due to an ongoing deadlock as technicians refuse to work under a film director.
The Federation of Cine Technicians and Workers of Eastern India (FCTWEI) had barred Rahul Mukherjee from working as a director in a film. The federation later said that Mukherjee was free to work as the creative producer of the film, but not as a director for three months.
The West Bengal Motion Pictures Artistes Forum has offered mediation to end the impasse.
Swarup Biswas, president of the Federation of Cine Technicians and Workers of Eastern India (FCTWEI), is the brother of West Bengal minister Arup Biswas. Swarup Biswas had said that director Rahul Mukherjee was barred from directing films for three months as he went to Bangladesh to shoot another film without informing the federation and without taking help from technicians in Dhaka.
