Buno Haansh

Buno Haansh
Directed by	Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury
Based on	Buno Haansher Palak  by Samaresh Majumdar[1]
Starring	See below
Music by	Shantanu Moitra
Country	India
Language	Bengali

Buno Haansh is an upcoming Bengali film directed by Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury. Based on a thriller novel by Samaresh Majumdar titled Buno Haansher Palak, the film features actors Dev and Srabanti Chatterjee in the lead roles. Music of this film is composed by Shantanu Moitra. This film will be the first offbeat movie of the Dev-Srabanti pair, which is based on the underworld.

Plot

The story of the film, which deals with the underworld, revolves around a boy (played by Dev), who engages himself deeply into a smuggling business. The events which occur after the boy realizes that he has become the part of a dangerous game, form the climax of the story.^[2][3]

Cast

• Dev as Amal^[4]
• Srabanti Chatterjee as Sohag^[2]
• Tanusree Chakraborty^[4]
• Moon Moon Sen as Madam^[4]
• Arindam Sil as the owner of a massage parlour^[5]
• Sudipta Chakraborty
• Gargi Roy Chowdhury
• Anindya Pulak
• Shankar Chakraborty
• Subhrojeet Dutta

Making

Production

Arindam Sil is the executive producer for Buno Haansh.^[5] The film is going to be one of the high-budget films of Tollywood, and estimated to cross many previous records.^[6] The film was earlier titled Runway.^[3]

Casting

This is the first collaboration of all the members of the cast of Buno Haansh with director Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury.^[7] Initially, actress Koel Mallick was supposed to play the female lead, but she stepped back due to date problems. After that, various names like Radhika Apte, Raima Sen and Payel Sarkar were being considered to bag the female lead.^[8] Finally, actress Srabanti Chatterjee was signed to play the role.^[2]

Veteran Bengali actress Moon Moon Sen will be reappearing on big screen with this film after nine years, her last film being Bow Barracks Forever, which was released in 2004. She was reported to play a central character in this film. In an interview, she said, "Yes, Tony (Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury) has approached me with a role in his next film. In the past too, Tony had approached me, but somehow I couldn't work out the time. But this time I'm really looking forward to it, though I'm yet to hear the script and sign on the dotted line. At present, both of us are talking about the film." Even director Chowdhury said that signing Moon Moon was like a dream come true for him and that, there was no other actress who would fit the character perfectly.^[4]

Filming

Director Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury and executive producer Arindam Sil were reported to search for shooting locations at Mumbai.^[1] Apart from that, filming will also take place at Bangkok, Bangladesh and Kolkata. The massage parlour, the owner of which will be played by Arindam Sil in this film, is likely to be based in Bangkok.^[5]

Soundtrack

Shantanu Moitra will be composing the film score for Buno Haansh. Anindya Chatterjee was spotted recording a song for the film.^[9] Papon was reported to record two songs for the film, one of which is a duet with Shreya Ghoshal.^[10] Apart from that, Shreya Ghoshal said in an interview that she has yet another song for the film.^[11] There will be 5 songs in the soundtrack.^[12] Singer Bonnie Chakraborty also recorded a track for the film.^[13]

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