Bengali filmmaker Raj Chakroborty is making his debut in the Hindi OTT industry soon. And as one might expect, there are chances that he will proceed to make some films in Hindi as well. How will that affect cinema in Hindi and in Bengali?
The filmmaker is of course very busy and bringing out new projects every now and then and his latest venture is the upcoming movie ‘Shontaan’ that is to release in December. There are chances that he might go in the direction that Srijit Mukherjee has gone and make it all wrong. Srijit Mukherjee made quite an anticipated debut in Hindi a few years back and went on to make some films as well. He seems to have been working with a bucket list in his hands and makes films voraciously, which, obviously, took a toll on the quality of his storytelling.
Raj Chakraborty too is working on a handful of projects now and it will be a very bad decision to do all of them together. The Hindi OTT version of ‘Parineeta’ has been announced long ago and now Shontaan is coming all of a sudden. The sudden surge that the Bengali film industry saw during the Puja was extraordinary but it will do no good if the situation is to be exploited by the filmmakers. More care should be put into the stories and quality has to matter more than quantity. Raj Chakroborty must remember this before stepping into Bollywood.