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Media Buzz: Bangladeshi model girl Shayna is playing the female lead character with Jaya Bachchan in the movie titled Meherjan.

On the other hand Pakistani Omar Rahim will perform in the film as male leads. Recently Big B’s wife Indian actress Jaya Bhaduri Bachchan visited Dhaka for shooting of the film, which is being directed by Syeda Rubaiyat Hossain.
Sources related with the production also revealed that another big shot Oscar winning music director AR Rahman will compose the music for the movie named Meherzan.
Jaya first appeared as a child actor in Satyajit Ray’s Bengali film ‘Mahanagar’ in 1963 and made her first screen role as an adult in ‘Guddi’ directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee in 1971.
Meherjaan is based on the liberation war of 1971 and boasts a strong mix of cast and crew from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. The story centres around a young Bangladeshi girl, Meher, who falls in love with a Pakistani soldier during the 1971 war. Victor Banerjee plays grandfather to a young Meher. But the story is told by the older Meher, played by Jaya.
Sources related to the movie also told that, the film begins and ends with Jaya, and in between we see flashes of her past. Jaya Bachan’s presence is very strong throughout the film.
The story unfolds 38 years after the war, when a young Meher (played by Bangladeshi actress Shayna Amin) has grown into Jaya, a sculptor who lives alone. “She is visited by a niece who comes from Berlin in search of her past and she hopes that Meher will help her. That forces Jayaji’s character to go through her old diary and relive the moments of those violent days,” said the 29-year-old Dhaka-based director. Cinematographer Samiran Datta from Calcutta has steered the camera. His wife Mita Chakraborty will work on the edit along with Sujan Mahmud of Bangladesh.
Among others popular Bangladeshi actors like Humayun Faridi, Shatabdi Wadud, Khairul Alam Shabuj, Azad Abul Kalam also played different role in the movie.    

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