Keep it simple with an eye on the pie is the movie-making motto of Prasun Banerjee. And the 54-year-old director-producer is ready with a Tolly film after eight years.

Ke Tumi?, starring Biswajit (in picture right), Raza Murad and Rituparna Sengupta (guest appearance), is a suspense thriller.

But first, ke tumi? As in who’s Prasun Banerjee? He’s the boy from Kalighat who shifted base from Adi Ganga to Arabian Sea 30 years ago. He’s the documentary maker who struggled before making a small-budget film Koi Na Jane Re with newcomers whose names he can’t recall now!

But his debut film made enough money for him to make Honhaar Bachche, which gave him “good returns”. He took a crack at a Bengali film curiously called Sindurer Rang Kalo, eight years ago. “The film (with newcomers) bombed and I did not earn anything. So I shifted my focus completely to Hindi films,” reasons Banerjee.

He made “12 Hindi films since 1984” and was “happy with all of them except one”. That one being the big-budget (by his standards) Ajnabi Saya starring Sheeba, Johnny Lever and Kiran Kumar. “The film failed miserably and I lost all my money. I haven’t recovered from the shock.”

He has his second homecoming hopes pinned on the leading lady. “Though Rituparna is in a guest appearance, she is the heroine,” clarifies Banerjee.

Sorry? “Actually the film begins with an accident where the actress dies but she comes back and nobody believes her,” he explains.

Ke Tumi? hits the theatres on August 22.