Patna: Anaarkali of Aarah director Avinash Das is all set to direct another movie on a story revolving around Bihar.

He said so on the concluding day of the three-day Patna Film Festival at Kalidas Rangalaya on Tuesday.

"My next film would revolve around a character who hails from a minority community, a community whose presence is almost negligible in the state," Avinash said. "I have not officially announced the film. This will be done in January. I will shoot most of the scenes in Bihar itself."

Asked if the film would also have Bihar-based artistes, he said he had asked his casting director to keep this is in mind when selecting artistes.

Avinash spoke of the initial hurdles he faced while making movies. "A new artist or director faces a huge struggle while making mainstream movies," Avinash said.

"I don't have any personal background in the industry. So, I had to face enormous struggles. I went from door to door, but people were not ready to invest in a project, as I had no experience. A talented actress with whom I share a good personal rapport had agreed to act in the movie. She even rehearsed for a few days but then refused to work over monetary and other issues. I had to make a lot of effort to sell the story. At the end of it all, I was lucky that a talented actress like Swara Bhaskar agreed to play the lead role in the movie."

Campus Rising, a docume-ntary film, was screened on the concluding day of the festival. Shashi Kapoor-starrer New Delhi Times was also scr-eened. The youngest of three legendary Kapoors brothers, Shashi, who had been ailing for some days now, passed away at a hospital in Mumbai on Monday. Avinash Das' Anaarkali of Aarah was also screened at the festival.

Avinash lamented the absence of a market for documentary movies.

"No one is ready to invest in documentaries," Avinash said. "But despite this unfortunate reality, good documentary movies continue to be made.

"Take the example of Kakkoos, a documentary on manual scavenging, by young filmmaker Divya Bharathi. Divya sold ornaments worth Rs 20,000 to help finance the movie. She asked for money for the film on social media. When the government did not allow her to screen the movie, she uploaded it on YouTube. I think we need to spread this interesting fact about documentary movies. It can help increase people's interest in them."