Lauren Gottlieb in a still from Calcutta Kiss
New Delhi:
Director Dibakar Banerjee is making his version of
Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! work overtime with auxiliary music videos replace regular song-dance routines. After we watched actor Sushant Singh Rajput perform a complicated rap number in
Bach Ke Bakshy, new song
Calcutta Kiss features Lauren Gottlieb as the centrepiece of a cabaret-themed sequence.
Lauren, winner of international dance reality show
So You Think You Can Dance, features in the video as a '60s cabaret dancer surrounded by mime artists dressed like Byomkesh Bakshy in
dhotis and jackets. The video also features snippets from the film to pique curiosity. Lauren choreographed Sushant's moves in
Bach Ke Bakshy. (Also Read:
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Musically, Calcutta Kiss is the creation of funk duo Madboy/Mink, who are otherwise known as actors-singers-composers Imaad Shah and Saba Azad.
The title of the song presumably refers to the kiss between Sushant's character and that of the actress-spy played by Swastika Mukherjee. Sushant was 'tricked' into the kissing scene by director Dibakar Banerjee and, according to Swastika, was left 'in shock' by it. (Also Read:
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The film, which is the latest in a series of cinematic renditions of Bengali author Sharadindu Bandopadhyay's detective series, also stars Anand Tiwari, Divya Menon, Meiyang Chang and Neeraj Kabi.
Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! is scheduled to release on April 3.
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