A file picture of Dutta

Siliguri, Aug. 17: Years ago, when a young south Indian banker quit his job to marry a Khasi girl and stay at his in-laws’ home, it was the talk of the town in Cherrapunji.

Today, his love story will transcend the boundaries of the region through a musical documentary — Come Back — by singer-film-maker Anjan Dutta. The seven songs in the documentary will each be filmed on a particular tourist locale in Bengal or the Northeast and will help to promote various community tourism initiatives in the region. The promotional video album, which will have renderings of the Calcutta-based artiste himself, will be brought out by the Siliguri-based Association for Conservation and Tourism (ACT).

The film will be shot by Travel Guru, an organisation of photographers here, and the music will be done by the John-Ashutosh duo, which had come out with an album of instrumental music — Zenith — last year.

“Community-based tourism is a very sustainable form of alternative livelihood, which has been able to wean people away from terrorist activities, poaching and deforestation. Through the video album, we want to sing of those who have taken the unconventional way of earning livelihood through protecting nature,” Dutta said.