MUMBAI: National award winning-director Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury is in the process of making his third Bengali film Africa and has signed up Rani Mukerji as the star actress.
Africa is a female-centric film in which Mukerji will play the pivotal role. A few days ago, the director met Mukerji in Mumbai and gave her a story narration. He is visiting Mumbai again in the next couple of days for his next meeting with the actress.
Talking about the film, Chowdhury says, "I am still working on the script. It‘s too premature to talk about it in detail. Rani is one of my favourite actresses and I would like to work with her."
The director is in plans to make two films in Bengali and one in Hindi and is currently working on the scripts. These include Dui Nari Haate Torowari and Ajaana Desh by noted Bengali novelist Sunil Gangopadhyaya, and his self-written Africa.
Chowdhury‘s first film Anuranan won him a National Award for Best Bengali Film while his second film Antaheen bagged four similar awards for best film, best lyrics, best cinematographer and best singer.
