The film received overwhelmingly positive reviews after the Venice screening. The premiere was attended by the lead actors Sreelekha Mitra and Arindam Ghosh, along with co-producers Catherine Dussart and Ingrid Lill HГёgtun, and For Films producer, Priyankar Patra, who also attended the Venice Production Bridge to pitch Sengupta's next project. The film premiered at the 78th Venice International Film Festival. Dutch composer, Minco Eggersman, was the last to creatively come on board and scored the original soundtrack of the film. Jonaki Bhattacharya, who previously collaborated with Aditya on Labour of Love and Jonaki joined as the executive producer and the production designer. I found it juvenile,' Aditya told Times of India. That is when I realised this was an unfair logic and stopped indulging in it. When I refused, the Federation president said they would not let me work in Kolkata. That wasn't possible for me as I have my own team. 'They wanted us to work with their members. Many directors and production houses have complained that sometimes it gets too much for them to abide by this norm. Generally, a film shot in Kolkata has to have approximately 70 members from the Federation in its crew. The conflict arose when the Federation asked Aditya Vikram to hire its members. The shoot was abruptly interrupted because the production refused to play by the rules of the Federation. Later, GГ¶khan Tiryaki, the collaborator of Nuri Bilge Ceylan came on board as the cinematographer. Initially, Fred Keleman was supposed to shoot the film, which was then titled Memories and My Mother. The film was shot over a period of two and half months in Kolkata, India. Soon, however, she realizes that she's not the only scavenger in a city hungry for more. Unable to secure a bank loan to buy a house of her own, Ela uses her boss, owner of a ponzi-scheme to get what she wants. Ela's step-brother, Bubu ( Bratya Basu) lives alone in the now abandoned theatre. She's the daughter of a cabaret dancer, who once had an affair with the owner of an iconic theatre in Calcutta. Sreelekha Mitra and Arindam Ghosh at the 78th Venice International Film FestivalД®la ( Sreelekha Mitra), a bereaved mother, wants to leave the house of her husband and start an independent life of her own. To Screen Daily, Sengupta mentions, 'It looked like the flyover and the dinosaur were about to start a race'. Sengupta says he got the idea for the film when he took a picture of a dinosaur statue outside Kolkata's Science City, which was fast being overshadowed by the construction of a new flyover вЂ“ a literal representation of a relic from the past, juxtaposed with a symbol of Kolkata's economic development. The film was in development since 2015 and was part of the LГЃtleier Cinefondation at the Cannes Film Festival before it was supported by CNC, Sorfond and NFDC Film Bazaar. The film stars Sreelekha Mitra as the protagonist, along with Arindam Ghosh, Bratya Basu, Satrajit Sarkar, Anirban Chakrabarti, Reetika Nondine Shimu and debutant Shayak Roy in supporting roles. The film had its world premiere at the 78th Venice International Film Festival in September of 2021.

It is the third film by the Indian auteur and produced by Wishberry Films, in association with For Films, with Catherine Dussart Productions (of France) and DUOfilm As (of Norway).

Once Upon A Time In Calcutta is a 2021 Bengali language Indian-French-Norwegian film directed by Aditya Vikram Sengupta.

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