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Onir Anirban's production 'Chauranga' about caste atrocities

Onir Anirban, who believes that incidents like terrorist activities and caste violence are shameful, is making a film on the case atrocities with Sanjay Suri’s.

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Cinema for the people, of the people, by the people — that would be an apt description for filmmaker Onir Anirban and actor-producer Sanjay Suri’s next production, Chauranga, which will be directed by debutant director Bikash Mishra, who is also the editor of the entertainment website, www.dearcinema.com.

“The story is inspired from a news report that was published way back in 2008. It was an incident that took place in a small village called Salgawan in Jharkhand. Co-incidentally, I grew up in this village. A 14-year-old Dalit boy falls in love with a 16-year-old girl from a higher caste and he makes the mistake of writing a love letter to her,” states Bikash, adding, “It was quite shocking for me to even think that my hometown was capable of witnessing such an incident and tried to imagine the whole process unfold.” Onir goes on to say, “Sadly, this is the truth of a large part of India. When we keep using terms like ‘India Shining’, incidents like terrorist activity, caste violence are so shameful.”

While the cast is yet to be finalised, the makers of the film have decided to go public with certain technical aspects of Chauranga. “There is a publicity design contest as well as one for background score that we have launched on a social networking site. And the number of entrants are simply amazing — people from all over have designed publicity posters based on their understanding of the plot,” explains Onir. To keep intact the authenticity, Bikash wants to look at local actors for the casting. “I need to be sure of the look of my cast and the dialect they use, hence we want to cast mostly from regions in Jharkhand, but of course there will be some popular and known faces from Mumbai,” he informs.

However, Bikash adds that the film will not be preachy. “It’s a pacy, action-driven story over a span of six days. Simply, it could be anyone’s story — a young boy hates the village he’s growing up in and wants to run away. In a way, it’s a sense of disapproval of the system he’s grown up in,” states the filmmaker. Quiz him on the significance of the title and he informs, “It denotes the caste system — the four colours that we have demarcated it into.

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