There seems to be no end to the troubles facing Bedabrata Pain’s historical Chittagong. Three years in the making, the director lost his son while the film was being made. And now the news from Kolkata is that the city’s intellectual class is up in arms against the film’s director for allegedly having borrowed chunks from author Manini Chatterjee’s novel Do And Die, a historical account of the Chittagong uprising in 1930, without acknowledging the source material. Interestingly, Ashutosh Gowariker’s <em>Khelenge Hum Jee Jaan Se</em> was an official adaptation of Manini Chatterjee’s book.

Starring <strong>Manoj Bajpai, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Rajumar Yadav, Jaideep Ahlawat & Delzad Hiwale</strong> Directed by <strong>Bedabrata Pain</strong> Rating: <strong>****</strong>

Much bad blood had flown between the Bachchans and the makers of Chittagong when it was alleged that Abhishek Bachchan had ended up doing a film, Ashutosh Gowariker’s Khelenge Hum Jee Jaan Se, based on the same historical figure Surya Sen on which <em>Chittagong</em> is based. But now all of the bitterness has been washed away.

There seems to be no end to the Chittagong director Bedabrata Pain’s troubles. Having gone through the worst nightmare possible of losing his child and then facing prolonged delays in the making of his film, on Wednesday… Pain lost the DPX (Digital Picture Exchange) file from his computer’s data drive. This essentially means the director at the moment, has lost his entire film when it is only a month away from release.