Recently Mithun Chakraborty’s fans from all over the globe have formed a pandemonium over the latest news on the film Hason Raja. As Mithun very lovingly paid tribute to the poet Hason Raja and after reading the script he regarded highly of the project. He also envisaged as one of his best forth-coming film after Swami Vivekananda. Surly his passion for a film like this have generated a significant focal point on this project from all over. Recent stalemate of the film left his fanatic fans very impetuous. Recently I talked to the director Ruhul Amin to find out the latest state of the production of Hason Raja.

Romuz: You have just come back from India and Bangladesh. As far as we knew you were suppose to start shooting from last January. Many fans of Mithun Chakraborty from all over the globe are anxious to know the latest situation of the film Hason Raja. Why it is taking such a long time to get off the ground?

Ruhul: I surely can understand and sympathize entirely with the well-wishers of  Mithunda. It is great to learn that so many people are waiting for a film like this. As you know one of the main reasons for delaying was the finance. About a year ago, we decided to start shooting with whatever fund we have gathered and worry about the post-production budget later. Last July 2007 I met dada in Mumbai and had meeting regarding the shooting date. He talked extensively about his complicated schedule situation and finally gave us the date to commence our shoot form middle of January 2008. I happily came back to London and organised many logistics. We need minimum of three months to organise pre-production. I left for India at the beginning of November 2007. I organised production team and offices In Kolkata and Dhaka. While all the arrangements were taking place dada’s sectary Mr Vijay informed me to meet dada in Mumbai to talk about the dates. Dada asked me to postpone our shoot. He presented his hectic schedule and explained how difficult it is for him to allocate an extended shooting schedule for us. Normally he can afford 15 to 20 days for a film. Since our film is stylistically different and require longer time to create spectacular visuals, plus it will be short in two countries. Taking all that into consideration he has eventually given us the date to start from November 2008.       

 Romuz: In the past we heard many times of the shooting date. Can you tell us why you never been able to launch the shoot?  

Ruhul:  We were always hoping to start but lack of fund and false promises by some of the investors to pay, left us with no option but to halt. But we never asked dada for a date in the past. This is the first time we asked and he also was eager to start. But unfortunately this is one of the busiest time in his career after his come back to Bollywood.  He had no options but to postpone our shoot.