The muhurat in progress. Picture by Prashant Mitra

Ranchi, June 13: After a successful run of Nagpuri films, Kortha ? an eastern Maithili dialect ? is the new linguistic medium in which moviemakers have chosen to work.

No sooner than the shooting of Tor Kiriya ? the first-of-its-kind film made in the language ? had been completed than the mahurat of Ram Jumawai Jodi was shot here today.

Directed by city-based producer Pankaj Pathak, the film focuses that marriages and relationships are pre-meditated and made in heaven. The film ? already made in Chhattisgarhi by Pathak ? moves around the theme of two brothers ? Shyam and Kishan ? and their affairs, which get complicated but solved at the end.

According to Pathak, the film has taken pains to portray each and every aspect of a tribal marriage. ?It contains each and every custom of a tribal marriage in detail including the folk songs. We have tried a mix of Nagpuri and Kortha languages as films in these dialects have viewers in other places as well like Chhattisgarh, Uttaranchal, Assam, Bihar and Jharkhand,? said Pathak.

The film, made with a budget of Rs 7.5 lakh, will be shot in Chaibasa, Netarhat, Ranchi, Gumla and Gangtok. The film ? scheduled to go on floors in early July ? will be ready for release by Durga Puja.

The cast of the film ? produced under the banner of Jharkhand Films and Music ? include Dipak Sinha, Shivam Manoharan, Raju, Shukumar Mukherjee, Mohan Kumar, Varsha Rani, Supriya Sinha, Gauri, Pankaj Sinha , Jharna Chakraborty and Shubra Mazumdar.