About film

Since my childhood I was fond of the stunningly beautiful nature of Chittagong Hill tracts (CHT) and the simple and friendly indigenous people of the hills. After all those bad things happened there, like many of my fellow countrymen, I too was very sad and felt that their story should be told. But because of the turmoil there it was not possible earlier to shoot in CHT and it only became a possibility after the Peace Treaty was signed.

But here I want to add that Gunter Grass, the German novelist, also had a role in it! He once said to me that we Bengali artists were not doing enough to portray the sufferings of the hill people. That discussion made my earlier resolve more firm.