Bikas Mishra and a poster of his film Naach Ganesh

He has already stolen the limelight on the sheer strength of his script.

Jharkhand boy Bikas Mishra is now ready to burst into the world of cinema with his adaptation of an actual incident that bares the horror of caste atrocities.

The Hazaribagh-born filmmaker’s directorial debut, Chauranga (four colours) will feature state talent in what promises to be another tale set in Jharkhand — remember Udaan, the hard-hitting Ronit Roy-starrer — that leaves the audience wiser.

The 31-year-old, an alumnus of Karim City College in Jamshedpur is on a visit to his native Jharkhand to pick the backdrop for his upcoming venture.

Mishra, who has been in the news for winning the Incredible India award at Film Bazaar, 2011, in Goa, told The Telegraph: “The story is about a 14-year-old lower caste boy, who wants to express his feelings to a 16-year-old upper caste girl and the consequences thereafter.”

The film is inspired by a real incident in 2008, when a lower caste boy was thrown out from a moving train in Kaimur district of Bihar.

“We will need new faces with acting potential,” said the first-timer, adding, “We will plan the auditions after finalising the locales. I will be comfortable shooting in Jamshedpur or Hazaribagh,”

The son of advocate Mahaveer Prasad Mishra pointed out that he had already visited Dhalbhum and Ghatshila rajbaris (in East Singhbhum) and would be touring the palaces of the Seraikela and Kharsawan scions and Ratu in Ranchi. He will then take a look at Ramgarh palace before zeroing in on the milieu for his movie. “I am looking at similar large monuments in rural areas for the project. The big structures will allow all the village scenes to be shot at one place. After finalising the locales, I will go back to Mumbai and return for the shooting, in April-May,” said Mishra, whose short film, Naach Ganesh, had a world premiere at 16th Busan International Film Festival in October 2011 and has also been selected for screening at the 41st International Film Festival Rotterdam in the Netherlands later this month.

Before he starts shooting, Mishra added, the producer and technical members of the film crew would be in Jharkhand on a talent hunt.

The script of Chauranga was selected for the National Film Development Corporation’s Screenwriters’ Lab held at Locarno (Switzerland) and Goa in 2010, before bagging the Incredible India award, which includes a cash prize of Rs 10 lakh sponsored by the Union ministry of tourism.

Besides, it was selected by Berlintale Talent Campus — a part of Berlin Film Festival — for its ScriptStation programme last year and also by Sweden’s Göteborg International Film Festival fund for financial support to the tune of Rs 7.5 lakh.

The film will be produced by Anticlock Films, an independent production company run by producer-director Onir and actor-turned-producer Sanjay Suri, who have made teamed up for popular flicks like My Brother…Nikhil, I Am, Bas Ek Pal and Sorry Bhai.