Anjan Dutt backs out of Jhinder Bandi remake

He was supposed to adapt Jhinder Bandi for the big screen. But Anjan Dutt has done a U-turn on that.
The director, who will get busy with the shoot of his next edition of Bomkesh Bakshi from April with Jisshu U Sengupta, has washed his hands of the project and will instead work on a Shakespearean tragedy by year-end.
The director says he was hurried by Rana Sarkar, who is putting the project together.���Rana came to know about the adaptation and met me. But I realized he was in great hurry to do the film and I didn't want to come up with a halfbaked venture. This historic drama by Tapan Sinha continues to be extremely popular with movie lovers and a bad job of it will not be taken kindly," said Anjan from Shillong.
The director was toying with the idea of adapting Jhinder Bandi before the release of Bomkesh Phire Elo and the scene changed once the movie was lapped up by moviegoers. Obviously then, Bomkesh was quick to feature on top of Anjan's priority list.
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While many names have been thrown up as the director of the project, sources say Rana is also in talks with Parambrata Chatterjee.
When CT got in touch with the actor-director, he told us, ���I've more or less being finalized to play Mayurvahan. But I'm not directing the movie. In fact, I have not thought about my next directorial venture as my dates as an actor are almost booked till December."