Sharmila Tagore has been at the Cannes Film Festival along with Simi Garewal for the screening of her film ' Aranyer Din Ratri ' by Satyajit Ray . The film got a standing ovation after the screening. In a recent interview, while talking about the film, Sharmila revealed how they shot the film in such difficult conditions. The actress revealed that Ray wanted to just shoot the film in May because only at that time the trees were leafless.
She said during a chat with 'The Hollywood Reporter India', “When we were shooting for Aranyer Din Ratri, we were staying in different places because there was paucity of space. Simi (Garewal) and Kaberi (Bose) stayed in a sort of next-door village in a plush forest bungalow. Satyajit Ray with Soumitra Chatterjee and other crew members stayed in another place. And Samit Bhanja, Subhendu Chatterjee, Rabi Ghosh and I stayed in another place.”
Tagore added, "I had the chowkidar’s room and I had a water cooler. In dry weather, it worked very well. These guys were in a shed with tin roof. So they would all joke about themselves and say ‘I am Rabi roast, Subhendu would say I am sauteed Subhendu’ because it used to be so hot. You cannot imagine how hot it was. We could only work from 5:30 AM to 9:00 AM and then again from 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM. Rest of the time, we just bonded and became good friends. It was really a tough location.”
Further elaborating on shooting the film in May in such a hot weather, she said, "He wanted that time because the trees were leafless. He wanted a particular look and it was only possible in May because then the rains came soon after and before that it was all leafy and lush.”