Kolkata, Jul 27 (PTI) A day after the Directors' Guild allowed film maker Rahool Mukherjee to work as a creative producer in an upcoming film, no technician turned up at a city studio on the first day of shooting of the film produced by a big production house. The development comes despite the Federation of Cine Technicians and Workers of Eastern India (FCTWEI) on Friday clarifying that Mukherjee is free to work as creative producer of the film but not as a director for three months. Federation president Swarup Biswas had said earlier that Mukherjee was being debarred from directing films for three months for violating norms by visiting Bangladesh for shooting patch shots of another film without intimation to the federation and taking the help of the technicians in Dhaka.
"Neither the federation nor the Directors' Guild was informed by Mukherjee about his visit to Bangladesh for shooting a film, which is against the rule. But there is nothing personal against Rahul. He is a good friend of us.
The decision was taken connectively in the interest of industry and its stakeholders, of which technicians are an important part," Biswas had told PTI earlier. The untitled film starred Prosenjit Chatterjee, Anirban Bhattacharya and Priyanka Sarkar for which shooting was slated to begin on July 27. The Dhaka shoot which landed Mukherjee in trouble was related to another project financed by a different producer.
Production house SVF which was behind the project had stated Soumik Haldar wo.