Actress Gehana Vasisth to direct her Rs 250 crore biopic based on her jail experience

Panaji: Director, Producer and actress Gehana Vasisth makes news no matter where she is. After being released from the Byculla Women’s Jail, Gehana has announced that she is starting work on her film tentatively titled ‘Trip to Jail’.

‘Trip to Jail’ will be made in a web series format as well as a feature film format and will first premiere on an international OTT platform.

It will later on release in theaters. For the record, Gehana runs her own production house GV Studios. The feature film will be distributed by a big national distributor and Gehana is talking to several big names. She refused to mention who is bank-rolling the film, but only said that big names are involved.

“Let the lock down restrictions be over, we will hold a press conference and announce all the names,” Gehana said.

The approximate budget of the film is Rs 250 crore and will feature 300 prisoners (actors) in an actual setting. It will be shot in a bio-bubble in a far-off deserted location away from cities and towns, so as not to be affected by the lock down in different places. Even the courts, police stations or thanas will be created as part of a massive set, Gehana said.

She has already written 90 per cent of the script in the five months that she spent at the Byculla Women’s Jail in Mumbai. She also was infected with the deadly Coronavirus and was housed in a ‘jail quarantine centre’ specially set up by the government for Covid positive under trials. Along with her at the jail as well as the Covid quarantine centre was another celebrity prisoner Indrani Mukherjea, founder of INX Media.

Though Gehana was tight-lipped about other details about the project but her spokesperson Flynn Remedios confirmed that work on the film is in full swing.

“We are casting actors who have had some jail experience, so that they know exactly what it means to be a prisoner of the judicial system in India. Right now it’s at the pre-production stage. Two big A-category male actors will be part of the cast, which will also feature Gehana (playing herself) in the main lead. There will be 5 to 6 songs and the main soundtrack is being prepared,” he said.

When asked will it feature her own actual experiences, Gehana said, ''Well wait and watch.'' (UNI)