Film spanning South Asian countries on the cards

When the time comes for an idea, nothing can stop it, so goes the saying. This is precisely what happened when directors from South Asia, including Bangladesh, gathered in the Indian coastal state of Goa, a paradise for international tourists, on the last day of June to give wings to a joint venture film production.Bangladeshi filmmaker Tanveer Husseini, Buddhi Kiritisena of Sri Lanka, Pakistan's Siraj-ul-Haque, Abdul Hameed Latifi of Afghanistan have joined hands to make a film which is likely to be a love story across five South Asian countries.The occasion was the concluding day of the third edition of South Asian Film Festival organized by South Asian Foundation.From India, the director in the joint effort would be either actress-producer Pooja Bhatt or director Sudhir Mishra, according to Manoj Srivastava, Chief Executive Officer of the Entertainment Society of Goa which hosted the South Asian festival.Siraj-ul-Haque said the story idea was still in development stage. "We are yet to decide which country the protagonist will be from. It will be a love story which will track one person from the eyes of five different filmmakers from five countries," he said.Latifi said the script for the proposed movie should be ready in two months. "We have all agreed to be in touch with each other to take forward the story idea. A concrete idea should take shape in two months," he added.Secretary General of South Asia Foundation Rahul Barua said the film would be produced under the banner of of the Foundation, which will organise the funds.