Calcutta, Nov 10 :     Bengali cinema has crossed the Rs 1-crore mark, a pittance compared to Mumbai but a feat given Tollygunge?s anaemic standards. Shudhu Ekbar Bolo, an adaptation of the Telugu Pelli Cheasu Kudam (Let?s Get Married) is the costliest Bengali production yet. It has been running to packed houses in city theatres since its release last weekend. The film is directed by Prabhat Roy and produced by Telugu Desam MP D Ramanaidu ? his 93rd celluloid venture, the second in Bengali after Rituparno Ghosh?s Asookh. ?I was used to budgets of around Rs 30-35 lakh,? said Prabhat Roy. ?But Ramanaidu?s demands on quality befuddled me. He wanted me, for instance, to hire Calcutta airport?s terminal for a shoot. When I said it would be too costly, he told me: ?Don?t worry about the cash, just do the job?. He also wanted me to hire the airport tarmac if necessary. But it was not available the day we wanted it because Sonia Gandhi was flying into town. In Calcutta, we don?t dare dream on such a magnitude.? Most of the film has been shot in Ramanaidu?s own studios in Hyderabad. The song sequences ? shot mostly in Switzerland in the Telugu original ? were done around Visakhapatnam. The unit hired a private mansion near Hyderabad for Rs 25,000 a day. It used the sets designed by art director Sarmistha Ray for the Bollywood production Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain. A replica of the mansion?s facade was made at the New Theatres I studio in Tollygunge. For the action sequences, shot in Salt Lake streets, a ?fightmaster? was flown down from Hyderabad. The film has a simple enough storyline. It stars Rituparna Sengupta, Prasenjit and Mouli Ganguly. In the Telugu original, the star, Venkatesh ? who is also Ramanaidu?s son ? is said to have charged a fee of Rs 1 crore. In the Bengali version, Prasenjit has had to make do with roughly three per cent of that.