Rituparna to play a detective next?

Why should boys have all the fun? Tollywood��s tryst with detective flicks will soon see a gender bender, with director duo Shiboprosad Mukherjee and Nandita Roy gearing up to bring Mitin Mashi �� Suchitra Bhattacharya��s popular female detective �� to the big screen.
And who will bag the prized role? While Shiboprosad is holding the cards close to his chest, a little bird tells us that it may be none other than his muse, Rituparna Sengupta.

The director duo has, in fact, got the rights to the entire series. ��We are planning to film all the stories with the detective,�� said Shiboprosad. The Mitin Mashi series, a hit with children, is about a matriarch, who is also a private investigator. Mother to son Boomboom, she is often made the butt of ridicule at home by her husband Partho Mesho, a known glutton. Helped by niece Tupur in investigations, Mitin Mashi has Partho Mesho at his wit��s end at the climax of every novella, at least 10 of which have already been published.
With many of the director duo��s films ��Icche, Alik Sukh and Ramdhanu �� being adapted from Bhattacharya��s stories, insiders say Mitin Mashi was only waiting in the wings to be made. Though casting hasn��t started yet, sources say Rituparna may play the lead. Shiboprosad said, ��We haven��t locked anyone for the role. But that doesn��t mean we haven��t thought of Rituparna.�� He is currently in Mumbai, working out the fundamentals of his Icche, which will now be made in Hindi.

Tollywood, for that matter, hasn��t seen many women detectives. The most memorable exception was when Rituparno Ghosh presented Rakhi as Ranga Pishima in Subho Mahurat. Though the director wanted to make a TV series with the lovable sleuth, his death last year put paid to that plan.
Feluda, Byomkesh, Kakababu, Arjun, Colonel, Gogol and now Mitin Mashi. Making detective flicks is elementary business, it seems.

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