Produced by Big Pictures, 'Janala' touches on the nostalgia of childhood and is areturn-to-the-roots tale based on a personal journey. Releasing by the end of this year in India, it stars Tapas Paul, Swastika Mukherjee and Indraneil Sengupta.

'The film is about the story of two wishes - about a person who wants to donate a window to his old school and the window that wants to go back to the jungle from where it started its journey,' Dasgupta explained.

' 'Janala' is an attempt to be reminiscent of the times when we sometimes try to make a simple dream come true, but the cogs of destiny leave us feeling unfulfilled. It is a very simple story but at times it goes beyond its simplicity and becomes magical,' he said.

'That is my style of filmmaking...Reality in itself is very boring and very predictable and once you bring in the element of magic in it, it becomes more acceptable with those dreamlike moments.

'Those magical elements are there in this film too. There is reality and then there is an extension of reality... in fact it is even an extension of consciousness,' he explained.

Born in 1944 near Purulia in West Bengal, Dasgupta was a lecturer in economics at Calcutta University.

With no formal training in filmmaking when he began his celluloid journey, he is credited with cinematic masterpieces like 'Neem Annapurna', 'Phera', 'Swapner Din', 'Kalpurush', 'Lal Darja' and 'Uttara'.

Ready with a script based on his novel 'Rahasyamaya', Dasgupta revealed that he is also contemplating a movie on it.

(Robin Bansal can be contacted at robin.b@ians.in)