MUMBAI: In a first-of-its-kind incidence, an actor has altered the language of a film.

Deepti Naval, who, was playing a pivotal role in the Bengali film Memories In March managed to turn it into one in Hindi, all because her Bengali pronunciation was coming in the way of the offbeat film.

The film, set in Kolkata, has Naval playing a bereaved mother who, after her son‘s sudden death, discovers his alternative sex life. Director-turned-actor Rituparno Ghosh plays her dead son‘s gay lover.

Everything was going smooth until Naval arrived on location and when she started her dialogue delivery in Bengali, it not only displeased the director; it hurt her too.

“The Bengali language proved to be more problematic than I thought it would be. I thought my performance would suffer if I kept focusing on the lines. Sanjoy and Ritu suggested that we do the film in Hindi,” Naval has been quoted as saying.

Stuck with a linguistic deadlock, director Nag and scriptwriter writer Ghosh took a flash decision after which Memories In March turned out to be the first film in the history of Indian cinema to change the language for the sake of its leading lady.

Naval comes back to screen after eight years. She last appeared in the 2003 film Freaky Chakra.