A filmmaker searching for his next star is hiding the darkest casting call of all.
A filmmaker, averse to starting a family, intends to cast a disapproving couple's school-going son in a movie. What follows is a light-hearted journey that could potentially make him rethink his preferences about having a child.
Direction
Ghosh turns a Buddha biopic into psychological trap.
Acting
Prosenjit's hollow charm masks something genuinely chilling.
Writing
Cinema-about-cinema that actually interrogates its maker.
Director
Rituparno Ghosh
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Khela belongs to Ghosh's late-period 'cinema on cinema' obsession, using filmmaking as a lens for middle-class Bengali moral decay. The Buddha biopic-within-the-film mocks Kolkata's intellectual class for spiritual tourism.
This was Ghosh's second collaboration with Prosenjit after Dosar, continuing their exploration of masculinity in crisis. Manisha Koirala learned Bengali phonetically for her role—her isolation on screen is partly genuine dislocation.
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