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Srijit Mukherji on why returning to the genre of thriller

Srijit Mukherjee is returning to his favourite genre of thriller with ‘Vinci Da’ which hits the theatres today, April 12. Despite his last film ‘Shah Jahan Regency’ failed to live up to the expectations, the hitmaker is confident enough to bet on ‘Vinci Da’ which stars Ritwick Chakraborty, Rudranil Ghosh, Sohini Sarkar and Anirban Bhattacharya in the lead.

When we asked the ‘Ek Je Chhilo Raja’ director what made him return to the thriller genre, he explains: “After I made Baishe Srabon, there were many offers to make ‘Teishe’, ‘Chobbish’ and so on, just like after Chotushkone there was a demand for pentagon, hexagon. But we Bengalis love to visit different places every year for the vacations, so I decided to go for a thriller this time. Bengali cinema suffer has a typical complex considering the lack of infrastructure, resources, but what we have is a huge treasure of human capital.

People heap praise on Baahubali, and rightly so, but tell me is Nagarkirtan any less of an achievement? The thing is we can also make great cinematic content amid limitations. We can write our way to greatness with what little we have – and Vinci Da, for me, is a tribute to that particular spirit as embodied by Somnath (the popular makeup artist), who triggered this idea with the work he has done in recent times.”

Produced by SVF, the craze surrounding the thriller is already on sky-high level. Only time will tell whether ‘Vinci Da’ will manage to give Srijit the expected numbers.