Rupali Guha has no place for Shahid in her film

The Chak De casting director Abhimanyu Ray was debutant director Rupali Guha’s saviour. After Rupali saw the way the new girls had been cast in Chak De she gathered the courage to make her first film Aamras with four new girls.




The movie was an insipiration for her and no matter how much the pressure to get stars, she gladly stuck to the four news girls Vega, Natasha, Manvi and Aanchal who are the backbone of her film which is about girl bonding.

Debutant director Rupali Guha has a hard act to follow. Her father is the formidably prolific Basu Chatterjee and her father-in-law is the equally formidable Dulal Guha. Both legendary in there own right.

And yet Rupali had to knock from door to door to get her first screenplay approved. “I went to everyone from UTV onwards. They all said, ‘Who’ll watch this film?’ Or worse, ‘Get Shahid Kapoor to play the boyfriend.’ How could I fit Shahid Kapoor into a film about the bonding among four 18-year-old girls played by four absolutely new faces?”

But she refused and is adamant and confident of her story and film.

The story of Aamras was born from debutant director Rupali Guha’s 13-year old daughter Jonaki’s experiences. With Aamras she is all set to open up my daughter’s world. Next, Rupali is working on script called Cinderella about a girl’s dreams of a Prince Charming falling to pieces.