Filmmaker Srijit Mukherji has started shooting his upcoming Hindi film Sherdil, starring Pankaj Tripathi.
The National-award winning director tweeted an image of a clapperboard with the title of the film that was shot in a forest location. The film is being shot in the forests of Dooars.
— Srijit Mukherji (@srijitspeaketh) November 18, 2021
Themed on man-nature conflict, Sherdil was announced in 2019. However, the director couldn’t begin shooting the film due to the pandemic. In 2017, a news report about locals at the Pilibhit Tiger Reserve encouraging elderly family members to fall prey to tigers in order to receive compensation caught Mukherji’s attention and he decided to turn the issue into his dream project.
In the film, Tripathi plays Gangaram, the chief of a village, who voluntarily enters the forest to secure the future of his poverty-stricken family.
Sherdil features Sayani Gupta and Neeraj Kabi, who was also seen in the similarly themed Vidya Balan-starrer Sherni (2021).
Mukherji has also recently completed Shabaash Mithu (2022), the biopic of the Indian women's cricket team’s captain Mithali Raj, starring Taapsee Pannu.