Real life first plays out in reel life

Sample the dialogue. “Even if you have a machine for printing currency notes at your home,you will not be able to return the money to the investors with that absurd rate of interest.’’

When he uttered the dialogue for the film Kagojer Nouko,little did Dadasaheb Phalke award winner Chatterjee — playing the role of an unscrupulous owner of a chit fund that went bust — know that the events depicted in the film would be enacted in real life a year later,rocking the state and rendering lakhs of investors penniless.

The film will be released across the state on May 10.

“How could I foresee the events one year back? It seems to be an uncanny coincidence,” Chatterjee,playing a negative role in a film after a long time,told The Indian Express.

The story line revolves around the unscrupulous owner of a chit fund,a Mr Sen Sharma,who collects money from investors with a promise of high returns. The man even uses the money to help terrorist groups who wage a war against the state. Victor Banerjee,a former freedom fighter,whose son becomes an agent of the company,fights against the chit fund to protect the interests of the investors. Banerjee tries to dissuade his son from the fund that ultimately goes bust. Actor Rajesh Sharma plays the role of a CBI officer investigating the case.

“When I conceptualised the film in February last year,I never knew that I was making the character of Sudipta Sen of real life. Shooting was done in three months’ time and the film is ready now. It has such uncanny resemblances with the incidents related to Saradha group that I was very surprised. I wish my film had have come out much earlier so that people could be alerted about the misdeeds of chit funds and refrain from making investments in such concerns,’’ Joardar told The Indian Express.