 In January 2015, it was revealed that debutante director Saikat Bhakat had brought Rituparna Sengupta aboard her project "Mahanayika" to play the lead role of Rituparna Sengupta, and even though inspired by the life of Suchitra Sen the project would not be a biopic.Shakuntala Sen (Rituparna Sengupta) is the princess of the glamour world.Her lover Aniruddha Mukherjee (Saheb Chatterjee) is a hero.