PremiumExclusive! Aritra Sen on Ghore Pherar Gaan: It’s not every day a Bengali film is premiered in London and we are very happy about it
The film has three screenings at the London Indian Film Festival this year.
Last Updated: 10.33 AM, Jul 05, 2022
London Indian Film Festival – the largest South Asian film festival in Europe – is taking place in London, Manchester and Birmingham. Aritra Sen’s Ghore Pherar Gaan, which features Ishaa Saha, Parambrata Chatterjee, Sourab Chatterjee and Reshmi Sen in the lead, was premiered on July 2 in London. In an exclusive chat with OTTplay, Aritra talks about the film and the feat in London.
“LIFF is one of the biggest South Asian film festivals outside India and our film has its UK and world premiere there. We are very happy with the screening. It’s not every day a Bengali film is premiered in London. Parambrata and I attended the premiere and it was a very successful event,” Aritra tells us.
The film was shot in November and December in London and the film is set to release in India later this year. Ghore Pherar Gaan is about a small-town girl, Tora (Ishaa), who gets married to an NRI family and comes to London. The film talks about her journey, her difficulties in adjustment and her expectations and contrasting realities of the NRI family. Tora used to be a musician. That past is not hidden and buried. She meets a musician, Imran Murshidabadi – Parambrata, who makes a living by playing gigs at pubs. They meet, connect through music and fall in love. The film is about the choices that she makes whether she stays with her husband or she moves away and goes with Imran. It is about those trials, coming to terms with realities and finding her true existence, which is music.
Aritra says his student life in Manchester helped him understand the characters. “I studied in Manchester. I lived here and watched the Indian community closely. This film is watched by a large group of the Indian diaspora. This film shows the community closely,” Aritra says.
Besides Ghore Pherar Gaan, Parambrata Chatterjee’s Abhijan – a biopic of Soumitra Chatterjee – was also screened at the festival.