Dipankar Kashyap at his boutique

March 11: Dipankar Kashyap is eyeing the big screen. Well, he has already excelled in front of the camera. Now he wants to go behind it.

The ace designer today announced the launch of his maiden venture as a film director in the star-studded Bukuwe Bisare.

But the celluloid world is not alien territory for him. “I was always keen on film direction. Apart from costume designing, I had also acted in several films, including Zubeen Garg’s Tumi Mur Mathu Mur,” Kashyap said.

He announced his decision at a glitzy music video release function at a leading music store of the city today.

Kashyap has designed the costumes and directed the music of the CD titled Muk Aghat Diya Meghali.

The film Bukuwe Bisare, under the banner of .T. Production, is a love triangle and will feature Ravi Sharma, Zerifa Wahid, Kopil Bora, Hira Neog, Chetana Das and Mridula Baruah.

“Tinat Masood is playing a crucial role of the other woman opposite Bani Das in a parallel love story,” he added.

“Dipankar is very hardworking and he knows what he’s doing. I am excited about this role, which will my second negative one. The first was in Tejaal Ghora. I had once even enacted the role of a 60-year-old woman in the play Abhinash by Ghiasuddin Ahmed,” Masood said.

“I study my characters well and now I am trying to do a psychoanalysis of my role in this film,” she added.

Kashyap is at present doing the main role on the lines of Chachi 420 in the film Operation Guwahati. “I have a fair idea of the technicalities of filmmaking as I have also directed various programmes on Prag channel,” he added.

The story of the film is by Kashyap himself and the script is by Abhijit Hazarika. The music is by Manas Hazarika and the songs have already been recorded by Anindita Pal, Amit Pal and Saju.

“The film is an emotional drama of love and sacrifice with typical masala mix to suit the popular taste,” Kashyap said. However, his next venture will be a more serious one. “I have already bought the rights of Maini Mahanta’s story Uttarar Janmadin.”

The film will be shot in different locales in Guwahati, Kalimpong in West Bengal and Sikkim.

Recently, Kashyap had showcased his collection of exotic wear at a two-day North East India inter-state cultural extravaganza, called Snow Pulse at Gangtok.

The audience was wowed by the “Mising Collection” — clothes designed on patterns worn by the Mising tribe. “I have been modifying the collection since 2000 and it has been a big hit wherever I have displayed it,” he said.