R ARIVANANTHAM
Film is the effective medium to create awareness that life and death are not in the hands of human beings and that rather than living with fear and withdrawal, we should make most of the time left to us.
Suvendu Raj Ghosh’s directorial venture of “Before You Die…”, a film based on how a cancer patient and her family handle the crisis and trauma well in an exemplary way will hit the screens across the globe on February 18. The film was originally planned to release on the World Cancer Day – February 4, 2022.
Suvendu Raj Ghosh whose last release was “Main Mulayam Singh Yadav,” says, “This is not just a journey of someone fighting cancer, but also a beautiful love story and also the journey of a family who sails in the same boat.”
The film introduces Puneeth Raj Sharma and Kavya Kashyap as lead actors. Zarina Wahab, Mukesh Rishi, Pradip Chopra, Mushtaq Khan, Arha Mahajan, Badshah Moitra, Rita Dutta, Lovekansh Garg are amongst the other cast.
‘Before You Die…’ is written and produced by the Chairman of iLEAD Foundation – Pradip Chopra. Chopra has penned the story of ‘Before You Die…’ after he lost his mother due to cancer this year.
Addressing before a special screening at 6 Degree Screen at Satyam Cinemas in Chennai on Saturday, Pradip Chopra said, “My mother was and always be my inspiration. I would like to dedicate this to all those, who along with their family members are spending and trying to make this crisis time the best and most enjoyable part of their life.”
Commenting on this film, he said, “Through the movie, we have tried to give out the message that even if birth and death are not in our hands, we can surely make our life a happy, satisfactory and worthy one”.