Bidita Bag awe-struck by Soumitra's easy demeanor

"Happy with the way my career is shaping up in Bengal. From a tribal-themed film as Sangabora, where I essay the character of an editor in film within film format and share screen space with a legend called Soumitra Chatterjee to the yet to be released unfinished film by Bappaditya shot in Cherapunjee, I get to do different characters," Bidita tells IBNS at the premier of Sangabora.

Bidita, who recalls how co-characters like Sampurna Lahiri worked hard to master Swahili pronunciations in the script of Sangabora, recalls she was first struck by the unconventional story line and plus the appetite to work with legends like Soumitra Chatterjee with whom she had acted in past.

"Whenever you work with Soumitra Chatterjee you  are floored by his easy going approach and razor sharp humour. And yes he is very gentle," Bidita said.

Bidita, in this context, refers to one museum shoot with the thespian when Soumitra while going through the vertebrae gallery exhibits of a museum before a shoot, commented, "Bengalis can be lodged here as well. (Meaning the community has lost it's spine).".

"It is a treat to watch him. he emotes and delivers line so effortlessly. It appears to come from within him," she said.

On her future Bollywood projects, Bidita says, "I am in the process of hearing two-three stories but can't divulge more at this stage."

Director Bulan Bhattacharya, who had thought about such a film after his visit to African continent and Swahili-speaking hamlets, confirms he has kept smatterings of that dialect in the Bengali film through the dialogue deliveries.

"In fact we have been able to largely recreate the African tribal ambience as the descendants of one such tribe from East Africa had been living in a part of Gujarat for ages and despite integrating with Indian society retained their culture. We had organised the outdoors in that part of Gujarat," he says.