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O`Henry to play muse in a Bengali film

Celebrated American writer O` Henry is set to be the central character of a Bengali film with whom a budding woman author falls in love.

Kolkata: Celebrated American writer O` Henry is set to be the central character of a Bengali film with whom a budding woman author falls in love.
Director Animesh Roy said in `O` Henry` the long dead author plays the muse of a young writer Megha who gets inspired by his work before taking up the pen. Without giving away much, the director said that Megha`s obsession would reach a level in which she would start to see her muse as a newspaper reporter who would arrive to interview her at her home after she received a literary award. About his work, Roy quoted the tradition of Bengali cinema drawing references from the world of literary art. Bengali actress Locket Chatterjee, of `Balukabela.Com` and `Mahapurush O Kapurush` fame, plays the character of Megha. Scriptwriter Sudip Chattopadhyay and actor Dibyendu, who plays the character of Megha`s interviewer, said the film was a different take on a long dead writer dominating the mind of a young person. "I discovered this fact about Megha as I come to interview her, being the only reporter to get one. While liberally using metaphors and imagery, we have also included songs in the multi-layered film for the sake of the narrative and leaving it to the audience to draw their own conclusion," Roy said. PTI