Bohurupi (2024)

Interesting facts

Bohurupi is a 2024 Indian Bengali-language caper action-thriller film written, directed and produced by Nandita Roy and Shiboprosad Mukherjee under the banner of Windows Production. Based upon a chain of real life events in the timeline between 1998 and 2005, the film stars Mukherjee himself in the titular role, alongside Abir Chatterjee, Ritabhari Chakraborty and Koushani Mukherjee in the lead roles. It follows a cat and mouse chase between a police officer, Sumanta Ghoshal (Chatterjee), and Bikram Pramanik (Shiboprasad), an ex-accountant-turned-bank dacoit.

Production

On 27 February 2024, the makers announced the film with a concept poster on their social media handles. The poster also included the date of release and the names of the lead cast. The character of Abir as Sumanta Ghoshal was based on the cop Srimanta Bandyopadhyay who caught the bank dacoit in real life.

In an interview, Shiboprosad revealed that they had been planning this film since 2012, after Muktodhara. They came up with the idea of this film when Sheikh Eklas, the real person who had committed the robberies had contacted them through a reference. He wanted them to make a film about his thefts, to glorify his deed.

This film marked the first time collaboration of Kousani with the director duo. Mukherjee cast Koushani for the role of Jhimli, watching her style of speaking and a big smile, which supported the traits of that character. It also marked the second time on screen pairing up between Abir and Ritabhari after the success of Fatafati in 2023.

The film was primarily shot in Bolpur, in the backdrop of rural Bengal. The filming started on 12 March 2024 with a Pooja ceremony at the shooting location. The film was shot across 84 locations including Kolkata, Taki, Baranagar, Bantala, Barrackpore, Bolpur, Murshidabad, Beldanga and Bethuadahari over 34 days. Parts of the film was shot at Kalikapur Rajabri, Aushgram in Bardhaman.

The song "Shimul Palash" included a dance sequence which was challenging for him as he performed it just after recovering from his lumbar injury. Koushani mentioned in an interview that she joined pottery sessions by some potters to learn to prepare mud utensils. She also spoke about the difficulties of shooting a dance sequence in soft mud as it was challenging to maintain balance on it. The song "Dakatiya Banshi" took 8 hours to shoot.

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